Plate Tectonics Crossword
This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 2 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Description
A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.
Who proposed that continents were once formed as a super continent?
Who proposed the idea of plate tectonics?
What was the last super continent?
What was the first super continent?
What was the second super continent?
What was the third super continent?
What was the fourth super continent?
What was the fifth super continent?
What did Alfred Wegener call his theory?
One of the two continents that fit together?
One of the two continents that fit together?
What did Robert S. Dietz call his idea?
Who proposed the law of Superposition?
What ocean does the Mid Atlantic ridge go through?
What ocean is the Nazca Plate on?
Is the part of the earth between the core and the the crust.
What was the profession of Abraham Ortelius?
What is an actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
What instruments are used to study plate tectonics?
