This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 10 clues. Answers range from 5 to 17 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Solid chunks of mantle rock that make it to Earth's surface during a volcanic eruption.
Waves that move rock side to side, they travel only through solids.
A hypothesis that today's continents were once apart of one single landmass due to Plate Tectonics moving.
The geologist that discovered seafloor spreading.
Name of the single landmass that happened long long ago.
A switch in the direction of Earth's magnetic field.
When the force of gravity moves a plate downward and away from a ridge.
The pulling of a tectonic plate as its edge subducts deep into the mantle.
The process by which oceanic crust sins beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a plate boundary.
In the mantle the movement of a fluid, caused by differences in density and temperature, that transfers heat from one part of fluid to another.