This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
When tectonic plates move, sudden shifts can occur along their boundaries.
The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.
The theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere called plates, move and change shape.
The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding.
A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another.
The region along a plate boundary where one plate moves under another plate.
The boundary between tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
The supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up beginning 250 million years go.
Volcanically active areas that lie far from tectonic plate boundaries.
The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquakes starting point, or focus.
A break along which there is no movement of the surrounding rock.
A measure of the strength of an earthquake.
A giant ocean wave that forms after a volcanic eruption, submarine earthquake, or landslide.
Small volcanic islands or underwater moutains
Formed when plate motions generate magma that erupts on Earth's surface.
Short segments of a mid-ocean ridge are connected by transform boundaries.
The largest moutain systems that are apart of two larger systems.
In Earth Science, the amount of damage caused by an earthquake.
The location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
Continents that formed part of a single landmass.