This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 11 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Sediment deposited on LAND.
Increased pressure causes earth's crust to fold upward.
Constructive ______________ make new landforms (ex. mountains and volcanoes)
________________ currents - the circluar flow of magma in earth's mantle.
Plates colliding at a plate boudary.
Crustal _____________ is any change to earth's crust resulting from plate movement.
The deposition of sediment from a river into a body of WATER.
_______________ processes take away geologic features.
Sediment is moved around on earth's surface
Destructive process that displaces rock layers on either side of a crack in the earth's surface.
Area that sediment is deposited when a river overflows
Two plates converging, causing earth's crust to fold over itslef.
Slope of a river or stream
Particles of sand, stone, soil, etc.
Process of a tectonic plate going under another at a convergent boundary.
Landform caused by increased pressure, folding earth's crust upward
Upward movement of earth's crust
__________ valley caused by glaciers
A V-shaped _________ is caused by the flow of water
Mountain range caused by the collision of the Eurasian Plate and Indian Plate