This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 40 clues. Answers range from 4 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
What are the bones called that are found all over the world?
When all the continents were together it was called?
The theory that all the continents were drifting apart.
When two lithosphere plate move apart.
Divergent boundaries moving outward.
Nearly melted layer of rock below crust.
A melted layer underneath the mantle.
A solid layer in the core.
Another type of crust at sea.
A rocky layer above the mantle.
When one plate slides over another it causes a.
Japan has this around its coast.
San Andres had a massive ______ that killed many people.
When two plates slide against each other (pushing up , and the other pulling toward).
When two plates slide across each other going in push pull ways diagonally.
when two plates slide away from each other it creates a ____ .
when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary.
his uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary.
This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary.
A _____ is a lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart.
When a plate goes underneath each other.
When two plates slide across each other going up and down.
When magma rises up underneath the crust it creates a ___ .
A squeezing force.
The bending of rock layers.
A earthquake at sea can cause a ___ .
When a plate goes under neath another.
When two or more plates move toward each other.
A long, narrow opening underneath the ocean.
When two or more plates collide into each other.
The size or strength of an earthquake using the Richter scale as measured by a seismograph.
To shake.
The place on the crust above the exact point where an earthquake occurred.
to rub against something.
The different parts of Earth.
A large piece of land.
The pieces of the Earth’s crust that float on the mantle, causing continental drift and earthquakes and creating volcanoes, trenches, and mountains.
The movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates.
A tectonic plate that carries a continent.
The part of the Earth’s crust found underneath oceans.