Plate Tectonics Crossword
This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 24 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Description
Where two plates move together
Place where two plates move apart
Margins where two plates slide past each other
The point within Earth where the earthquake starts
The location on the surface directly above the focus
Fractures in Earth where movement has occured
Upper mantle and overlying crust, behaves as a rigid layer (lithosphere.)
When one oceanic plate is forced down into the mantle beneath 2nd plate
Form as volcanoes emerge from the sea
A small earthquake that follows the main earthquake
A small earthquake that often precedes a major earthquake
The motion of matter resulting from changes in temperature
Concentration of heat in mantle - can produce magma, which rises to Earth's surface
Deep faults found along axes of divergent boundaries
Produces new oceanic lithosphere
Continuous elevated zones on all major ocean basins
One rigid section of lithosphere that moves as a unit over the asthenosphere (lowered mantle.)
Upper mantle
Lower mantle
The scientist that came up with the hypothesis about the plate tectonics theory
