This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 20 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
What is the theory that continents move
The bending of rock layers due to stress
Stress that occurs when forces act to squeeze an object
A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
The sinking of regions of the earths crust to lower elevations
The rising of regions of the earths crust to higher elevations
The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other
Crustal plates are ___________ plates
What is the layer under the lithosphere
What is the layer under the asthenosphere
A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid outermost part of the mantle
The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies
The theory that tectonic plates move and change shape
Stress that occurs when forces squeeze an object
when all the continents were one
the soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move
when two continental crust plates collide it is a
what is the lithosphere in the ocean called