This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 16 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Zone of shallow water where the ocean covers the ends of the continent
Off of continental shelf
Sediments from the submarine canyons are deposited futber out in the ocean
Continents once fromed part of a single landmass called supercontinent named?
Includes crust and upper mantle
Makes up the lower mantle
Spins and m,akes earth's magnetic field
Dense,hot layer of semi-soild rock.
Two plates that move away from each other
Forms volcanoes and mountain from melting of overlying continental crust
Plates slide pass each other
Hot magma rises in the mantle,heated by earth's core
Cover about half of the deep-ocean basins and are the flattest regions on Earth
Formed by divergent plate boundary
Flat-topped underwater mountain
Pointed-topped underwater mountain ranges that were likely volcanic
Deepest point the ocean
Sand, silt,mud, and clay found on continental shelf make up the thickest sediments
Very brittle
Sidewyas and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the eart's crust into the mantle beneath another plate