Earth science concepts crossword puzzle by Isaiah Carter

A _____________ ______________, also known as the Destuctive plate boundary
the _____________ _____________, also known as the constructive boundary or an extensional boundary
_______________ ____________ is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth's lithosphere
_____________ _______________ is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other, thus appearing to "drift" across the ocean bed. The speculation that continents might have 'drifted' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596.
A __________ is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
__________ was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras
the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved, or _________ in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
__________ ___________ was the scientist who proposed the Continental Drift Theory in the early twentieth century. Simply put, his hypothesis proposed that the continents had once been joined, and over time had drifted apart
____________ ____________ (also known as a conservative plate boundary, since these faults neither create nor destroy lithosphere), is a type of fault whose relative ominmotion is predantly horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction
______ ___ ______, any long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the ocean bottom in which occur the maximum oceanic depths, approximately 7,300 to more than 11,000 metres (24,000 to 36,000 feet).
___________ is the breaking down of rocks, soil and minerals as well as artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, biota and waters.
a ______ is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock mass movement.
A ____________ ____________is a change in the orientation of Earth's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south become interchanged
the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
A ______ ___ ________is an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics