This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 6 to 17 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Mountain range under water
A volcano that will never erupt
A volcano that can erupt at any time
Wergner's name for one large landmass.
Long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the seafloor formed where one crustal plate sinks beneath another
When continental plates pull apart and valleys appear
Boundaries that collide.
Boundries that pull apart, or divide.
Break in rock when caused by shear forces, where rocks move past eachother without much verticle movement.
When rocks are squeezed together
When rocks are pulled apart
When rocks are pushed in the opposite direction
When two rocks converge, and the denser slab sinks into the asthenosphere
The crust and part of the upper mantle
The plastic-like layer below the lithosphere
A man that made the hypothesis of continental drift.
what other landforms are associated with volcanic eruptions?
steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as either volcanic clinkers, cinders, volcanic ash, or cinder that has been built around a volcanic vent.
a broad domed volcano with gently sloping sides, characteristic of the eruption of fluid, basaltic lava.
layers of ash and lava flows