This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 21 clues. Answers range from 4 to 17 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
When all the continents were one land mass
The top thin layer on the outside of the earth
The outer part of earth consisting the crust and upper mantle
Earth is divided into sections that floats over the mantle
The theory the explained why the continents moves
Lines that determine the intersection and cracks
The alteration of the size and shape of rocks
A type of stress that shrinks the size and volume of a object
A type of stress that pulls rocks apart
When a tectonic plate goes under sinks under another
The puddy like layer of earth
The process in which new ocean floor is formed
The heat transfer function of convection currents drives the earth’s ocean current
A geomagnetic reversal is a change in a planet's magnetic field
a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
Where 2 tectonic boundaries are moving away from each other
Where tectonic boundaries move towards each other
Where two tectonic plates are moving horizontal of each other
he layer of the Earth's atmosphere lying above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere
The lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of plates