Tectonic Plates! Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 1 to 17 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

Description

Solid, thin layer of mantle material below the lithosphere.
Squeezes material.
Hypothesis that plates were once together.
Center of Earth.
Thin, outer shell of Earth.
They move away from each other, or diverge.
Shaking of the Earth caused by a sudden movement of rock beneath its surface.
Forms when rocks break, caused by volcanoes.
The outermost physical layer of Earth.
Compositional layer below the crust.
Underwater mountain range that forms when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath oceanic crust.
The place where two or more plates in the Earth's crust meet.
Process where new sea floor forms.
Waves of energy released be earthquakes.
Material twists or becomes distorted.
Process where one tectonic plate is pulled under another.
Marks the collision between two tectonic plates.
Pulls material apart.
Move past one another in opposite directions.
Caused when two oceanic convergent plates compress.

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