Plate Tectonics Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 30 clues. Answers range from 5 to 17 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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All continents were once a single "__________."
New seafloor crust is formed at a rate of about ____ centimeters per year.
German scientist, _______________ , published a book proposing that all continents were once connected.
The youngest rock on the ocean floor is found at ___________ ridges.
Wegener said that the continents fit together like a _______ puzzle.
The farther the rock is from the ridges , the ________ it is.
The type of rock found on the ocean floor is also ___________.
Most seafloor rock is __________ in origin.
Antarctica has fossils of species that were mostly ___________.
____________ has a north-south magnetic field.
____________ was located near the equator at one time.
As magma cools and and solidifies the iron particles "________" in the direction of the magnetic field at that time.
Over time, the rock had then _______ apart.
Wegener called this certain landmass _________.
Plates can move in ________ ways.
Alfred said that the continents later split _________ to their current positions.
Locations where plates move apart are called ___________ boundaries.
New evidence supporting Wegener's proposal came to light in the _________.
Seafloor Spreading _________ at divergent boundaries.
Scientists developed a model called __________.
Locations where plates collide are called ____________ boundaries.
The plates move over the hot, fluid rock, or _________, in the mantle.
______________ and volcanic activity can occur at convergent boundaries.
The new rock exerts a sideways force called _____________.
Locations where plates slide past each other are called __________ boundaries.
____________________ explains how plates move apart and new crust forms.
Rocks along these boundaries _________ and break.
Wegener"s concept became known as the _________________.
Many people rejected _____________ idea.
The processes that move continents also form new crust on the ______________.

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