This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 22 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
The idea that continent move around Earth's surface
An ancient huge landmass composed of earlier formed today's continent
A theory explaining how the pieces of Earth's surface move
A long chain of underwater mountains
Large pieces of earth's lithosphere move over the asthenosphere
A hypothesis that new sea floor is created and the mid ocean ridge and that in process, the continent are pushed apart from each other
Thin lithospheric plates that are made of basalt and from the ocean floor denser than the continental plates
Thick lithospheric plates that are made of andesite and granite and from continents less dense than oceanic plates
A process that involves a lithospheric plate sinking into mantle
Heated lowered mantle rock that rises torward the lithosphere
A lithospheric plate boundary where two plates move apart
A lithospheric plate where two plates com together
A lithospheric plate boundary where two plates slide by each other
A valley in the deep ocean created when one lithospheric plate subducts under another
1st inner layer
2nd inner layer
3rd layer(inside to outside)
Most outer layer
The lower part of the upper mantle;lithospheric plates slides on this layer
Vibration that travel through earth and are caused by events like earthquake or human made blast