Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics Crossword

The idea that Earth’s continents moved apart from a single large continent called Pangea
Proposed the Theory of Continental Drift Theory
_______ was a supercontinent and began to break apart about 175 million years ago
_____ of the same species were found on separate continents and nowhere else.
The continents, particularly South America and _______, fit together like puzzle pieces.
There are ___ continents today
_______ discovered that magma was rising on the sea floor causing it to spread.
____________ is the theory that Earth's outer crust (lithosphere) is divided into several plates that glide over the asthenosphere
Layer of rock which forms the continents
Type of boundary where plates are dividing or moving apart
The type of boundary where plates slip sideways past each other creating earthquakes.
The type of boundary where plates collide or converge
A long chain of volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean that was caused by plate boundaries converging, diverging and transforming.
Wegener used Fossil Evidence, Continental Fit, Landforms & Rock Layers, and __________ as his supporting evidence for The Continental Drift Theory