This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 15 clues. Answers range from 5 to 16 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
The chemical make-up of a substance.
the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
The transfer of heat by liquid and gas.
The outer layer of Earth where we live. Earth's most outer and dense layer
the layer beneath the crust and above the core. It is made up of very hot rock that may flow like toothpaste.
the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere.
Solid layer of iron and nickel inside earth
a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
Sits below the mantle and is liquid
Has 2 layers, the outter crust (continental or oceanic) and the upper mantle. these 2 layers make up the lithosphere and float on a layer of magama called the asthenosphere, theory that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into tectonic plates that float and move around on top of a plastic like layer of the mantle
A solid, soft layer of the mantle below lithosphere. made of mantle rock that flows very slowly, allowing tectonic plates to move on top of it
the central part of the Earth below the mantle
A layer of huge moving slabs of rock that are from the earth's crust. The top layer of the earth's crust. It is brittle and where earthquakes are formed. The lithosphere makes up the tectonic plates.
A giant moving slab of rocks, etc.. A Split plates that float on the earths crust that can move with tremors/quakes, and pressure from inside the earth, has 2 layers, the outter crust (continental or oceanic) and the upper mantle. these 2 layers make up the lithosphere and float on a layer of magama called the asthenosphere