can you find the plates? Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 4 to 24 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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The plastic like layer of Earth's surface below the lithosphere.
The cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking fluids.
The theory that states that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections, which move around on a special layer of the mantle.
The rigid layer of Earth's surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle, upon which tectonic plates move.
The hypothesized giant landmass or "supercontinent" thought to have broken apart about 200 million years ago into separate continents.
The hypothesis that continents have moved slowly to their current locations.
The sections that make up the Earth's crust and upper mantle.
The largest layer of Earth's interior, composed mostly of silicon, oxygen, magnesium, and iron.
The outermost (shell like) layer of Earth's surface.
One of the seven (or six) land masses on the planet.
The portion of Earth's crust that lies beneath the ocean.
Hess's theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced up to the surface at mid-ocean ridges and spreads out.
The force that created the movement of plates and led to the plate tectonic theory was
The colliding, pulling apart, or sliding against each other of the Earth's plates, causes.
To come together or collide
To move apart
To convert or change
Puzzle fit of continents.
the layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
the hottest layer of the Earth

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