This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 2 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
A weak spot in the Earth's Crust where magma has come to the surface.
The molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water that makes up part of Earth's Mantle.
Magma that reaches the surface.
Shape the surface by building up mountains and land areas.
A cool, slow moving lava formed from a quiet eruption.
The expulsion of ash, cinders, bombs, and gases during an explosive eruption.
How thick or thin lava is.
A hot, fast moving lava formed by quiet eruptions.
Sills, dikes, Batholiths, necks, and Dome Mountains are formed by what?
Shield, Cinder Cone, and Composite Volcanoes are all formed by what?
A boundary where to plates crash together
A boundary that created the mid-ocean ridge
An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it.
A wide gently sloping mountain made out of layers of lava.
A tall, cone shaped mountain in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash.
A steep, cone-shaped hill or mountain made out of volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs built up around the volcano's opening
The opening through which molten rock and gas leave a volcano
A major belt of volcanoes that rims the Pacific Ocean
A volcano that is erupting, or shows signs of erupting in the near future
A volcano that doesn't show signs of erupting in the near future