Plate Tectonics Crossword
This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 4 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Description
Created from igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.
Contains dissolved gas and gas bubbles
Lies between the core and crust
Plates moving toward each other and colliding
Made of nickel-iron
Slides against other tectonic plates
The outershell of terrestial-type planet
Below the lithosphere; upper layer
A liquid layer
Helps the concept of Contintental Drift
A solid layer
Supercontinent
He hypothezied the continents were a single mass
Tectonic plates moving away from each other
Depression in the ground that gets deeper
Downward movement of the edge of a plate
Underwater mountains
First theorized by Abraham Ortelius
Occurs at mid-ocean ridge
Containing geological moutains
