Plate Tectonics Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 14 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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What is this defining, a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust?
The ---------- of the earth is a liquid layer of about 2,300 kilometers think.
What is the solid sphere in the middle of the fluid core called?
What is between the core and the crust?
The earth's ---------- makes up the continents and ocean floors.
What is another word for lava?
What planet do we live on?
What kind of spreading is a process that occurs at the mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity?
What boundary type goes side to side?
What boundary type collides into each other?
What boundary type moves away from one another?
Transform, Convergent, and Divergent are plate what?
---------- crust is the thin part of the earth's crust that underlies the ocean basins.
---------- crust is the thick part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses.
What is very deep and forms when a tectonic plate slides beneath another?
This is a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crust for some distance.
This is where lava pushes up from under the mantle and creates a volcano.
this is the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
this is the upper layer of the earth's mantle and below the lithosphere
A ---------- is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock.

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