lithosphere vocab part2 Crossword
This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 11 clues. Answers range from 4 to 15 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Description
descend rapidly down a mountainside
geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
break between an upland region of relatively hard crystalline basement rock and a coastal plain of softer sedimentary rock
a destructive mud flow on the slopes of a volcano.
a fault in which rock strata are displaced mainly in a horizontal direction, parallel to the line of the fault.
the part of the earth between the core and the the crust, mainly made of molten rock
a long, deep, and narrow depression in the ocean floor, typically marking a subduction zone
The gravitational forces pushing two divergent plate boundaries
a grain that is formed from the erosion of rocks, it is the largest particle size
a hole in the ground caused by water erosion
The man who discovered Continental Drift, or plate tectonics
