plate tectonics Crossword Puzzles

plate tectonics 2022-03-22

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. circulatory patterns of heat in the magma believed to be the driving force behind plate movement.
  2. V-shaped valleys that are the deepest parts of the oceans where subduction occurs.
  3. the movment of the ocean floor at a divergent
  4. ocean split down the middle by a big crack
Down
  1. a type of plate boundary where the plates slowly move apart from each other.
  2. the process in which the crust pushes downward into the mantle at a fault line.
  3. earths crust the slowly moves
  4. the remains of ancciant living animals
  5. plate boundary where the plates slowly collide together
  6. the uppermost solid part of the earths crust

10 Clues: earths crust the slowly moves • the remains of ancciant living animals • ocean split down the middle by a big crack • the uppermost solid part of the earths crust • the movment of the ocean floor at a divergent • plate boundary where the plates slowly collide together • a type of plate boundary where the plates slowly move apart from each other. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-10-13

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. volcano
  2. mantle
  3. lithosphere
  4. currents density
  5. of fire continentral Drift
  6. boundary san Andreas fault
Down
  1. core inner core
  2. plates subduction zone
  3. spreading pangea
  4. boundary convergent boundary

10 Clues: mantle • volcano • lithosphere • currents density • spreading pangea • core inner core • plates subduction zone • boundary san Andreas fault • boundary convergent boundary • of fire continentral Drift

Plate tectonics 2022-11-03

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. plates that separate/move away from one another
  2. the process where a less dense plates slips under a denser one
  3. an underwater mountain range
  4. the creator of the sea-floor spreading theory
  5. the process of magma rising and sinking
Down
  1. plates that collide
  2. a set of mountains created from two continental crusts colliding
  3. the creator of the continental drift theory despite not knowing how it worked
  4. plates that slide past each other
  5. a formation made by transform boundaries

10 Clues: plates that collide • an underwater mountain range • plates that slide past each other • the process of magma rising and sinking • a formation made by transform boundaries • the creator of the sea-floor spreading theory • plates that separate/move away from one another • the process where a less dense plates slips under a denser one • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-11-08

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the number of continents
  2. plates that slide by each other
  3. plates that move towards each other
  4. where 2 things meet
Down
  1. the outside of the Earth
  2. plates that move away from each other
  3. one giant continent 200 million years ago
  4. a break in a plate
  5. the big areas of water surrounding the continents
  6. hot, melted, liquid rock below the Earth

10 Clues: a break in a plate • where 2 things meet • the outside of the Earth • the number of continents • plates that slide by each other • plates that move towards each other • plates that move away from each other • hot, melted, liquid rock below the Earth • one giant continent 200 million years ago • the big areas of water surrounding the continents

Plate tectonics 2022-11-16

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a continent that was split up a long time ago
  2. gigantic chunks of the Lithosphere
  3. small earthquakes that occur after big ones
  4. big wave created by earthquake
  5. a boundary were the plates are pushed together
  6. A mountain that can erupt with magma and smoke
Down
  1. a boundary were plates are pushed apart
  2. A big crack in the Lithosphere
  3. the theory that continents move
  4. Molten rock that is inside the earth

10 Clues: A big crack in the Lithosphere • big wave created by earthquake • the theory that continents move • gigantic chunks of the Lithosphere • Molten rock that is inside the earth • a boundary were plates are pushed apart • small earthquakes that occur after big ones • a continent that was split up a long time ago • a boundary were the plates are pushed together • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-01-31

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Convergent land form
  2. made by subduction zones
  3. Converging oceanic + continental plate
  4. Two boundaries sliding past each other
Down
  1. Molten rock
  2. Causes plate movement
  3. Two boundaries moving apart
  4. Two boundaries coming together
  5. ridge Causes seafloor spreading
  6. Earth layer with convection currents move

10 Clues: Molten rock • Convergent land form • Causes plate movement • made by subduction zones • Two boundaries moving apart • Two boundaries coming together • ridge Causes seafloor spreading • Converging oceanic + continental plate • Two boundaries sliding past each other • Earth layer with convection currents move

Plate Tectonics 2022-01-25

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. are created at convergent boundaries
  2. causes tectonic plates to move
  3. Boundaries pull apart
  4. a dense rock that forms the ocean floor
  5. boundaries slide together
  6. are created when two plates meet at a divergent boundary
Down
  1. are created when one plate collides under another
  2. comes from volcanoes created when a plate goes under the other
  3. Boundaries collide
  4. are created when two plates with the same density collide

10 Clues: Boundaries collide • Boundaries pull apart • boundaries slide together • causes tectonic plates to move • are created at convergent boundaries • a dense rock that forms the ocean floor • are created when one plate collides under another • are created when two plates meet at a divergent boundary • are created when two plates with the same density collide • ...

plate tectonics 2022-04-18

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a sudden violent shaking of the ground
  2. a chunk of crust that moves
  3. crust
  4. combinations close together
  5. to be different
  6. to change
Down
  1. mountain that shoots lava
  2. a long narrow ditch
  3. ocean plate a thick rock that lies under the ocean floor
  4. plates plate that is thicker and less dense

10 Clues: crust • to change • to be different • a long narrow ditch • mountain that shoots lava • a chunk of crust that moves • combinations close together • a sudden violent shaking of the ground • plates plate that is thicker and less dense • ocean plate a thick rock that lies under the ocean floor

Plate Tectonics. 2022-05-02

Plate Tectonics. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. seven large slabs that cover earth
  2. When all the continents were combined
  3. 2 tectonic plates repelling
  4. energy waves traveling from an earthquake
  5. 2 tectonic plates sliding passed.
Down
  1. 2 tectonic plates moving towards eachother
  2. Less dense/thick (made with granite)
  3. Top part of the mantle
  4. dense/thick (made of igneous rock)
  5. lithosphere

10 Clues: lithosphere • Top part of the mantle • 2 tectonic plates repelling • 2 tectonic plates sliding passed. • seven large slabs that cover earth • dense/thick (made of igneous rock) • Less dense/thick (made with granite) • When all the continents were combined • energy waves traveling from an earthquake • 2 tectonic plates moving towards eachother

plate tectonics 2022-03-30

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a planar fracture
  2. responsible for tectonic plate movement
  3. rigid most outermost part of earth
  4. the upper layer of earths mantle
Down
  1. gradual caving or sinking
  2. third layer of earths surface
  3. to lift to a higher elevation
  4. contains most of earth's volume
  5. able to be bent
  6. earth outer layer

10 Clues: able to be bent • a planar fracture • earth outer layer • gradual caving or sinking • third layer of earths surface • to lift to a higher elevation • contains most of earth's volume • the upper layer of earths mantle • rigid most outermost part of earth • responsible for tectonic plate movement

Plate Tectonics 2022-06-24

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. formed by two tectonic plates conjoining
  2. hot fluid
  3. outer part of the Earth
  4. the person who made the first scientific movement about the topic
  5. a mountain with hot fluid coming out
Down
  1. all the continents joined
  2. a layer inside the Earth
  3. outermost part of Earth
  4. the floor under the ocean
  5. shaking of the ground

10 Clues: hot fluid • shaking of the ground • outermost part of Earth • outer part of the Earth • a layer inside the Earth • all the continents joined • the floor under the ocean • a mountain with hot fluid coming out • formed by two tectonic plates conjoining • the person who made the first scientific movement about the topic

Plate Tectonics 2022-12-11

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust
  2. the amount or distance by which something is out of line
  3. Earth's surface
  4. is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  5. ock formed from the rapid cooling
Down
  1. molten or semi-molten natural material
  2. a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  3. tend to meet at a point
  4. coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock
  5. a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges

10 Clues: Earth's surface • tend to meet at a point • ock formed from the rapid cooling • coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock • molten or semi-molten natural material • the amount or distance by which something is out of line • a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges • a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-02-09

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A boundary that pushes together
  2. Melted rock found in the mantle
  3. When one plate goes under another
  4. created from divergent boundaries
  5. a boundary that creates earthquakes
Down
  1. a disaster crated by transform boundaries
  2. What makes every boundary happen
  3. occurs at a divergent boundary
  4. A type of boundary that happens when plates pull apart
  5. outermost layer of the earth

10 Clues: outermost layer of the earth • occurs at a divergent boundary • A boundary that pushes together • Melted rock found in the mantle • What makes every boundary happen • When one plate goes under another • created from divergent boundaries • a boundary that creates earthquakes • a disaster crated by transform boundaries • A type of boundary that happens when plates pull apart

Plate Tectonics 2023-02-10

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The scientist behind the tectonic plate theory
  2. when two plates spread
  3. The super continent that could have existed millions of years ago
  4. The boundry between 2 plates
  5. when two plates slide past eachother
  6. The largest tectonic plate
Down
  1. when two plates come together
  2. The less dense type of tectonic plate
  3. The theory that continents move slowly over time
  4. The more dense type of tectonic plate

10 Clues: when two plates spread • The largest tectonic plate • The boundry between 2 plates • when two plates come together • when two plates slide past eachother • The less dense type of tectonic plate • The more dense type of tectonic plate • The scientist behind the tectonic plate theory • The theory that continents move slowly over time • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-02-23

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When two plates push towards each other at a plate boundary
  2. A current in a fluid that results from convection
  3. When two plates slide past each other horizontally
  4. All the Earth
  5. The science that deals with the Earth's physical structure
  6. A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle.
Down
  1. When two plates pull away from each other at a boundary
  2. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater which there has been an eruption from
  3. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the Earth's crust or volcanic action.
  4. One of three types of rocks, being made up of sediments

10 Clues: All the Earth • A current in a fluid that results from convection • When two plates slide past each other horizontally • When two plates pull away from each other at a boundary • One of three types of rocks, being made up of sediments • The science that deals with the Earth's physical structure • When two plates push towards each other at a plate boundary • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-02-23

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When two plates push towards each other at a plate boundary
  2. A current in a fluid that results from convection
  3. When two plates slide past each other horizontally
  4. All the Earth
  5. The science that deals with the Earth's physical structure
  6. A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle.
Down
  1. When two plates pull away from each other at a boundary
  2. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater which there has been an eruption from
  3. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the Earth's crust or volcanic action.
  4. One of three types of rocks, being made up of sediments

10 Clues: All the Earth • A current in a fluid that results from convection • When two plates slide past each other horizontally • When two plates pull away from each other at a boundary • One of three types of rocks, being made up of sediments • The science that deals with the Earth's physical structure • When two plates push towards each other at a plate boundary • ...

Plate tectonics 2023-03-06

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Our planet home
  2. moving or extending in different directions
  3. a line of volcanoes
  4. a massive earthquake
Down
  1. a long carck in the surface
  2. to change in composition
  3. what is at the bottom of the ocean
  4. a line that marks the limits of an area
  5. a big mountain that spits lava
  6. a big landscape that goes up

10 Clues: Our planet home • a line of volcanoes • a massive earthquake • to change in composition • a long carck in the surface • a big landscape that goes up • a big mountain that spits lava • what is at the bottom of the ocean • a line that marks the limits of an area • moving or extending in different directions

Plate tectonics 2023-03-06

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Spits out lava
  2. line A line around something
  3. of fire Fire around it
  4. off limits
  5. A big piece of land
  6. Puzzle peices of the earth.
Down
  1. move past
  2. come together
  3. Has a bunch of water on top
  4. A big ball

10 Clues: move past • A big ball • off limits • come together • Spits out lava • A big piece of land • of fire Fire around it • Has a bunch of water on top • Puzzle peices of the earth. • line A line around something

Plate tectonics 2023-03-06

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Spits out lava
  2. line A line around something
  3. of fire Fire around it
  4. off limits
  5. A big piece of land
  6. Puzzle peices of the earth.
Down
  1. move past
  2. come together
  3. Has a bunch of water on top
  4. A big ball

10 Clues: move past • A big ball • off limits • come together • Spits out lava • A big piece of land • of fire Fire around it • Has a bunch of water on top • Puzzle peices of the earth. • line A line around something

Plate Tectonics 2023-05-03

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the solid outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.
  2. the hypothesis that states the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.
  3. the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding.
  4. the solid, plastic layer of mantle beneath the lithosphere; made of mantle rock that flows very slowly, which allows tectonic plates to move on top of it.
  5. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each-other horizontally.
Down
  1. the process by which new oceanic lithosphere (sea floor) forms as magma rises to Earth's surface and solidifies at mid-ocean ridge.
  2. the study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rock, specifically as it relates to to reversal of Earth's magnetic poles.
  3. a long, undersea mountain chain that has steep, narrow vally at its center, that forms as magma rises from the asthenosphere and that creates new oceanic lithosphere.(sea floor)
  4. the theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere, called plates, move and change shape.
  5. the boundary between tectonic plates that are moving away from each-other.

10 Clues: the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding. • the boundary between tectonic plates that are moving away from each-other. • the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each-other horizontally. • the solid outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle. • ...

plate tectonics 2023-03-31

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  2. mountains under the ocean
  3. convergent is colliding
  4. the forming of a volcano
  5. transform is sliding
Down
  1. were the ground gets deeper
  2. divergent is divergent is dividing
  3. when two plates spread it creates a
  4. the spin in the mantle
  5. lava

10 Clues: lava • transform is sliding • the spin in the mantle • convergent is colliding • the forming of a volcano • mountains under the ocean • were the ground gets deeper • divergent is divergent is dividing • when two plates spread it creates a • the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.

Plate Tectonics 2023-05-18

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Made by a convergant boundary
  2. Collision Boundary
  3. Makes tectonic plates flow
  4. Lava that is made in the mantle
Down
  1. Two plates with diffrent densitys collide
  2. Sliding Boundary
  3. Made by a subduction zone
  4. Naturual disaster made by a transform boundary
  5. Seperateing Boundary
  6. Made by a divergant boundary

10 Clues: Sliding Boundary • Collision Boundary • Seperateing Boundary • Made by a subduction zone • Makes tectonic plates flow • Made by a divergant boundary • Made by a convergant boundary • Lava that is made in the mantle • Two plates with diffrent densitys collide • Naturual disaster made by a transform boundary

plate tectonics 2023-09-29

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. outermost layer of earth
  2. plate movement is caused by
  3. what boundary is where tectonic plates converge
  4. happens at transform boundary's
Down
  1. rocks break as the plates grind past eachother
  2. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  3. caused at transform boundary's
  4. occur at divergent boundary
  5. where the convection currents are located
  6. molten rock

10 Clues: molten rock • outermost layer of earth • plate movement is caused by • occur at divergent boundary • caused at transform boundary's • happens at transform boundary's • where the convection currents are located • two tectonic plates move away from each other • rocks break as the plates grind past eachother • what boundary is where tectonic plates converge

Plate Tectonics 2023-10-01

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. convection currents
  2. come together
  3. fissure in rock
  4. movement of currents
Down
  1. away from each other
  2. plates moving
  3. massive area of land
  4. sliding against each other
  5. opening in earths surface
  6. crust broken up

10 Clues: plates moving • come together • crust broken up • fissure in rock • convection currents • away from each other • massive area of land • movement of currents • opening in earths surface • sliding against each other

Plate Tectonics 2023-09-28

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. molten rock under the Earth's surface
  2. cause the movement of earth's tectonic plates
  3. when plates move away from each other
  4. a fracture between two blocks of rock
Down
  1. when plates come together and overlap
  2. when an oceanic plate begins to slide under a continental plate
  3. openings in the earth where lava erupts to the surface
  4. when plates slide past each other
  5. formation made from divergent boundaries
  6. shaking of the earth caused by moving plates

10 Clues: when plates slide past each other • when plates come together and overlap • molten rock under the Earth's surface • when plates move away from each other • a fracture between two blocks of rock • formation made from divergent boundaries • shaking of the earth caused by moving plates • cause the movement of earth's tectonic plates • ...

plate tectonics 2023-09-25

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. is caused by plate movement
  2. currents in the mantle
  3. ocean and land plates hit eachother
  4. where two boundrays glide past eachother
  5. happens in the mantle
Down
  1. boundray where
  2. plates
  3. causes plate movement
  4. where two plates go toward eachother
  5. border

10 Clues: plates • border • boundray where • causes plate movement • happens in the mantle • currents in the mantle • is caused by plate movement • ocean and land plates hit eachother • where two plates go toward eachother • where two boundrays glide past eachother

Plate tectonics 2023-08-08

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Molten rock material?
  2. A piece of land surrounded by water on all its sides?
  3. Record of earthquake?
  4. Secondary wave order on any seismographic station?
  5. Second layer in the internal structure of earth?
  6. A type of plate boundary tectonics plate move towards each other?
Down
  1. Waves causing most damage?
  2. Boundary between mantle and core?
  3. A layer of earth beneath lithosphere where the material is jelly like form?
  4. Transportation of weathered rock material?

10 Clues: Molten rock material? • Record of earthquake? • Waves causing most damage? • Boundary between mantle and core? • Transportation of weathered rock material? • Second layer in the internal structure of earth? • Secondary wave order on any seismographic station? • A piece of land surrounded by water on all its sides? • ...

plate tectonics 2024-02-15

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. hot mantle rock
  2. valley example of divergent boundary
  3. 2 plates slide against each other
  4. formed with transform boundary
  5. when one plate goes under the other
  6. formed from subduction
Down
  1. formed with convergent boundary
  2. 2 plates divided
  3. 2 plates colliding
  4. of fire located in pacific ocean

10 Clues: hot mantle rock • 2 plates divided • 2 plates colliding • formed from subduction • formed with transform boundary • formed with convergent boundary • 2 plates slide against each other • of fire located in pacific ocean • when one plate goes under the other • valley example of divergent boundary

PLATE TECTONICS 2023-12-08

PLATE TECTONICS crossword puzzle
Across
  1. One tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate
  2. A wave from an earthquake or an explosion, that can travel along the Earth’s surface or through Earth’s interior
  3. Sections of the Earth’s surface that move-- these sections can include both continental and oceanic crust
  4. This type is thinner and denser than continental
  5. Plate boundary where the plates collide
  6. These events are common at plate boundaries, and are caused by the motions of the plates or of magma.
  7. The dividing line where tectonic plates meet
Down
  1. Plate boundary where the plates move apart
  2. Plate boundary where the plates slide past each other
  3. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the earthquake

10 Clues: Plate boundary where the plates collide • Plate boundary where the plates move apart • The dividing line where tectonic plates meet • This type is thinner and denser than continental • One tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate • Plate boundary where the plates slide past each other • The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the earthquake • ...

Plate Tectonics 2024-01-30

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What type of landform do divergent boundaries create?
  2. What rises to the surface?
  3. What boundary creates rift valleys?
  4. What boundary creates mountains?
  5. What moves the plates around?
Down
  1. What are the things that move the continents?
  2. What boundary creates earthquakes?
  3. What type of landform do transform boundaries create?
  4. What type of landform do convergent boundaries make
  5. What is the thinnest layer of Earth?

10 Clues: What rises to the surface? • What moves the plates around? • What boundary creates mountains? • What boundary creates earthquakes? • What boundary creates rift valleys? • What is the thinnest layer of Earth? • What are the things that move the continents? • What type of landform do convergent boundaries make • What type of landform do divergent boundaries create? • ...

plate tectonics 2023-12-07

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The boundary where two plates collide
  2. A large wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor
  3. The formation movement and subduction of earths plates.
  4. An American biologist whos one of the scientists who studied mid-ocean ridge systems
  5. The boundary where two plates move apart
  6. The shaking and trembling that comes from beneath the earth's surface
Down
  1. A weak spot in the crust where magma comes to the surface
  2. Forms when two pieces of continental and come apart
  3. The boundary where two plates pass eachtoher
  4. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust

10 Clues: The boundary where two plates collide • The boundary where two plates move apart • The boundary where two plates pass eachtoher • Forms when two pieces of continental and come apart • The formation movement and subduction of earths plates. • A weak spot in the crust where magma comes to the surface • A large wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor • ...

plate tectonics 2023-12-07

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The boundary where two plates collide
  2. A large wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor
  3. The formation movement and subduction of earths plates.
  4. An American biologist whos one of the scientists who studied mid-ocean ridge systems
  5. The boundary where two plates move apart
  6. The shaking and trembling that comes from beneath the earth's surface
Down
  1. A weak spot in the crust where magma comes to the surface
  2. Forms when two pieces of continental and come apart
  3. The boundary where two plates pass eachtoher
  4. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust

10 Clues: The boundary where two plates collide • The boundary where two plates move apart • The boundary where two plates pass eachtoher • Forms when two pieces of continental and come apart • The formation movement and subduction of earths plates. • A weak spot in the crust where magma comes to the surface • A large wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-12-23

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Rocks formed from pre existing rocks or pieces of once living organisms.
  2. A low permeability unit that can store groundwater and transmit it slowly from one aquifer to another.
  3. Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.
  4. Center of earth
  5. A body or permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
Down
  1. Layer of earth made of rock and soil
  2. Hot fluid underground
  3. Water Held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
  4. when hot molten rock crystallizes and solidifies
  5. Earths thickest layer

10 Clues: Center of earth • Hot fluid underground • Earths thickest layer • Layer of earth made of rock and soil • when hot molten rock crystallizes and solidifies • A body or permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater. • Water Held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock. • Rocks formed from pre existing rocks or pieces of once living organisms. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-12-24

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A boundary where two plates are moving towards each other and colliding
  2. A landform that rises high above the surrounding terrain.
  3. Giant pieces of rock that float on top of the mantle
  4. A boundary where two plates are moving away from each other
  5. An opening in the Earth's surface. Usually found in a mountain, the opening allows gas, hot magma and ash to escape from beneath the Earth's crust.
Down
  1. The plates that are below the ocean
  2. An intense shaking of Earth's surface caused by the movement of tectonic plates.
  3. A constantly moving, semi-liquid layer called
  4. The plates that are below the continents (land)
  5. These boundaries are created when tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally along faults

10 Clues: The plates that are below the ocean • A constantly moving, semi-liquid layer called • The plates that are below the continents (land) • Giant pieces of rock that float on top of the mantle • A landform that rises high above the surrounding terrain. • A boundary where two plates are moving away from each other • ...

plate tectonics 2024-01-18

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. made the sea floor speading
  2. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  3. currents beneath the plates moves the crustal plates.
  4. when plates slide sideways past eachother
  5. a single continent
Down
  1. two plates come together
  2. the layer of rock that forms earth's outer surface
  3. basic units called plates
  4. founded the plate tectonic
  5. a three-pronged fissure grew between Africa, South America, and North America

10 Clues: a single continent • two plates come together • basic units called plates • founded the plate tectonic • made the sea floor speading • when plates slide sideways past eachother • two tectonic plates move away from each other • the layer of rock that forms earth's outer surface • currents beneath the plates moves the crustal plates. • ...

Plate tectonics 2024-03-26

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Places where the edges of two or more plates interact
  2. Forming or belonging to a continent
  3. A continuous range of underwater volcanoes that wraps around the globe.
  4. Remains of a prehistoric organism
  5. Melted
  6. Group of organisms whose energy source is the same number of steps away from the sun
Down
  1. A current in a fluid that results from convection
  2. the broken pieces of the lithosphere that move on the athenosphere
  3. the ability to do work or cause change
  4. consists of the crust and upper mantle

10 Clues: Melted • Remains of a prehistoric organism • Forming or belonging to a continent • the ability to do work or cause change • consists of the crust and upper mantle • A current in a fluid that results from convection • Places where the edges of two or more plates interact • the broken pieces of the lithosphere that move on the athenosphere • ...

Plate tectonics 2024-03-25

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an object that's reduced to liquid form by heating
  2. shelves The ocean floor next to coastlines
  3. solid material that is moved and deposited in a new location
Down
  1. the floor of a sea or ocean
  2. the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet
  3. chains separated by a central valley.
  4. ridge two parallel
  5. the solid bulk of Earth's interior
  6. Broken pieces of the lithosphere
  7. A freshwater animal

10 Clues: ridge two parallel • A freshwater animal • the floor of a sea or ocean • Broken pieces of the lithosphere • the solid bulk of Earth's interior • chains separated by a central valley. • shelves The ocean floor next to coastlines • the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet • an object that's reduced to liquid form by heating • ...

Plate Tectonics 2024-03-28

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - forming of belonging to a continent
  2. - a line that marks the limits of a area
  3. - remains of an prehistoric organism
  4. - melted; liquefied
Down
  1. - the position of the organism in the food chain -
  2. - a continuous range of underwater valcano that wraps around the globe
  3. - consists of the crust(light brown) and upper(dark brown)
  4. - a shallow layer below the lithosphere
  5. - the broken pieces of the lithosphere that move on the asthenosphere
  6. - the ability to do work or cause change

10 Clues: - melted; liquefied • - remains of an prehistoric organism • - forming of belonging to a continent • - a shallow layer below the lithosphere • - a line that marks the limits of a area • - the ability to do work or cause change • - the position of the organism in the food chain - • - consists of the crust(light brown) and upper(dark brown) • ...

Plate tectonics 2024-03-28

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. graphical crack or separation
  2. ground shaking
  3. mountain or hill with a vent at the top
  4. two or more lithospheric plates collide.
  5. a seafloor mountain
Down
  1. one of the plates moves under the other
  2. plates that move slide sideways past each other
  3. a long cut in the ground
  4. heat-driven cycles that occur in the air and ocean
  5. two tectonic plates move away from each other

10 Clues: ground shaking • a seafloor mountain • a long cut in the ground • graphical crack or separation • one of the plates moves under the other • mountain or hill with a vent at the top • two or more lithospheric plates collide. • two tectonic plates move away from each other • plates that move slide sideways past each other • heat-driven cycles that occur in the air and ocean

Plate Tectonics 2024-09-11

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate is denser than another
  2. moves past each other
  3. moves apart
  4. underground lava
Down
  1. large masses of earth
  2. a geological structure made by convergent boundarys
  3. a geological structure that errupts lava (Hint: NOT magma)
  4. caused in the ocean by divergent boundarys
  5. cause of transform boundary
  6. moves together

10 Clues: moves apart • moves together • underground lava • large masses of earth • moves past each other • cause of transform boundary • when one plate is denser than another • caused in the ocean by divergent boundarys • a geological structure made by convergent boundarys • a geological structure that errupts lava (Hint: NOT magma)

Plate Tectonics 2024-09-11

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate is denser than another
  2. moves past each other
  3. moves apart
  4. underground lava
Down
  1. large masses of earth
  2. a geological structure made by convergent boundarys
  3. a geological structure that errupts lava (Hint: NOT magma)
  4. caused in the ocean by divergent boundarys
  5. cause of transform boundary
  6. moves together

10 Clues: moves apart • moves together • underground lava • large masses of earth • moves past each other • cause of transform boundary • when one plate is denser than another • caused in the ocean by divergent boundarys • a geological structure made by convergent boundarys • a geological structure that errupts lava (Hint: NOT magma)

Plate Tectonics 2024-09-11

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate is denser than another
  2. moves past each other
  3. moves apart
  4. underground lava
Down
  1. large masses of earth
  2. a geological structure made by convergent boundarys
  3. a geological structure that errupts lava (Hint: NOT magma)
  4. caused in the ocean by divergent boundarys
  5. cause of transform boundary
  6. moves together

10 Clues: moves apart • moves together • underground lava • large masses of earth • moves past each other • cause of transform boundary • when one plate is denser than another • caused in the ocean by divergent boundarys • a geological structure made by convergent boundarys • a geological structure that errupts lava (Hint: NOT magma)

Plate Tectonics 2013-04-02

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Created at the convergent boundaires
  2. Bands and has reversals
  3. Created at subduction zones
  4. Large Plates
  5. ______ or so plates
  6. Henry ____ was the man behind the theory of seafloor spreading
Down
  1. _________ Zones
  2. _____ Tectonics
  3. Too dense for subduction
  4. where the movement occurs

10 Clues: Large Plates • _________ Zones • _____ Tectonics • ______ or so plates • Bands and has reversals • Too dense for subduction • where the movement occurs • Created at subduction zones • Created at the convergent boundaires • Henry ____ was the man behind the theory of seafloor spreading

Plate Tectonic Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle 2017-06-12

Plate Tectonic Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A deep spot in the ocean caused by subduction
  2. The process of one plate moving beneath the other
  3. A rigid layer that includes the earths crust/upper mantle
  4. Formed by collisions between plates of continental crust
  5. The name of a subduction zone that Vancouver lies within it
  6. The continental crust is made of this rock
  7. There are 3 types of these, convergent, divergent and transform
  8. The soft layer just below the lithosphere
  9. A natural disaster caused by movements of the tectonic plates
  10. A destructive event that results from geological processes
  11. pull Pulling of tectonic plate due to gravity/subduction
  12. The founding father of plate tectonics
Down
  1. The starting point of diverging plates
  2. An usually hot place where island chains such as Hawaii can form
  3. The solid material beneath the asthenosphere
  4. A supercontinent that was formed in 270,000,000 BCE
  5. An opening in the earths surface where magma is released
  6. The pieces that make up the earth's crust
  7. Also known as a titlewave
  8. Its nearly 3000km thick

20 Clues: Its nearly 3000km thick • Also known as a titlewave • The starting point of diverging plates • The founding father of plate tectonics • The pieces that make up the earth's crust • The soft layer just below the lithosphere • The continental crust is made of this rock • The solid material beneath the asthenosphere • A deep spot in the ocean caused by subduction • ...

Mikayla Wilhelm 2015-05-05

Mikayla Wilhelm crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's magnetic poles flip sides
  2. portion of motion from a subducted tectonic plate
  3. theory that the Earth's crust is made up of plate tectonics
  4. where two tectonic plates move away from each other
  5. "supercontinent" that means "all the Earth" in Greek
  6. two tectonic plates slide next to each other
  7. lowland between a mountain range caused by fault line
  8. a driving force of lithospheric plates, and is caused by horizontal spreading of the sea floor
Down
  1. instrument that measures small changes in the magnetic field
  2. this is the study of magnetic record found within rocks
  3. the theory that the ocean floor is expanding
  4. one continental plate sinks below another
  5. a line on a map or diagram connecting connecting two points that are related
  6. Wegner's hypothesis of moving continents
  7. where two tectonic plates come together and collide

15 Clues: Earth's magnetic poles flip sides • Wegner's hypothesis of moving continents • one continental plate sinks below another • the theory that the ocean floor is expanding • two tectonic plates slide next to each other • portion of motion from a subducted tectonic plate • where two tectonic plates come together and collide • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword 2021-12-01

Plate Tectonics Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. type of plate made from Earth's crust that are moving around
  2. Other name for molten rock
  3. a trench of hardened magma caused by two plates moving away
  4. plates sliding next to each other
  5. Caused by underwater plates converging
  6. Well known transform plate boundary in California
  7. Outermost layer of the earth
Down
  1. Well known rift valley caused by a divergent plate boundary
  2. Tectonic plate underneath land
  3. plates moving away from each other
  4. when two plates converge and eventually push magma out onto the land
  5. Main cause of two plates sliding against each other
  6. Main cause of two plates converging together and crumpling
  7. plates moving towards each other
  8. Tectonic plate underneath the ocean
  9. when two plates converge and one goes under the other

16 Clues: Other name for molten rock • Outermost layer of the earth • Tectonic plate underneath land • plates moving towards each other • plates sliding next to each other • plates moving away from each other • Tectonic plate underneath the ocean • Caused by underwater plates converging • Well known transform plate boundary in California • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword 2021-12-09

Plate Tectonics Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. what was the mountain range formed when the Indian plate ran into the Eurasian plate?
  2. what is it called when an area beneath the surface moves melted rock is moving upwards?
  3. what happens when rock gets broken by weathering/erosion
  4. what was the super continent formed 280 millions years ago
  5. where do two plates pull away from each other?
  6. what is the largest mid-ocean ridge?
  7. what type of rock forms from cooled lava/magma?
  8. what land structure is formed from a rupture in the earth's crust?
  9. what type of rock forms from sediment that's cemented?
Down
  1. what is the theory that Henry Hess created that helped prove continental drift?
  2. where do two plates collide?
  3. what's the natural disaster that results in lots of shaking on the earth?
  4. what type of rock forms from rock that undergoes lots of heat and pressure?
  5. what is formed when volcanoes erupt underwater, and they tend to have more of a smooth shape?
  6. who was the scientist that is most famous for his theory on Pangea?
  7. where does more dense plates go under less dense plates?

16 Clues: where do two plates collide? • what is the largest mid-ocean ridge? • where do two plates pull away from each other? • what type of rock forms from cooled lava/magma? • what type of rock forms from sediment that's cemented? • what happens when rock gets broken by weathering/erosion • where does more dense plates go under less dense plates? • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword 2021-12-09

Plate Tectonics Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. what is the theory that Henry Hess created that helped prove continental drift?
  2. what was the mountain range formed when the Indian plate ran into the Eurasian plate?
  3. what is the largest mid-ocean ridge?
  4. who was the scientist that is most famous for his theory on Pangea?
  5. what type of rock forms from rock that undergoes lots of heat and pressure?
  6. what land structure is formed from a rupture in the earth's crust?
  7. what's the natural disaster that results in lots of shaking on the earth?
Down
  1. where do two plates collide?
  2. what type of rock forms from sediment that's cemented?
  3. what happens when rock gets broken by weathering/erosion
  4. where does more dense plates go under less dense plates?
  5. what was the super continent formed 280 millions years ago
  6. what type of rock forms from cooled lava/magma?
  7. where do two plates pull away from each other?
  8. what is formed when volcanoes erupt underwater, and they tend to have more of a smooth shape?
  9. what is it called when an area beneath the surface moves melted rock is moving upwards?

16 Clues: where do two plates collide? • what is the largest mid-ocean ridge? • where do two plates pull away from each other? • what type of rock forms from cooled lava/magma? • what type of rock forms from sediment that's cemented? • what happens when rock gets broken by weathering/erosion • where does more dense plates go under less dense plates? • ...

Plate Tectonics Vocabulary 2024-02-20

Plate Tectonics Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A collision between two of Earth's tectonic plates, where one plate sinks into the mantle underneath the other plate.
  2. _______ Crust: The outermost layer of Earth’s lithosphere that is found under the oceans and formed at spreading centers on oceanic ridges, which occur at divergent plate boundaries
  3. The theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere, called plates, move and change shape
  4. The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
  5. A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle
  6. A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
  7. A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another
  8. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Down
  1. A vent or fissure in Earth’s surface through which magma and gases are expelled
  2. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  3. The theory that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted.
  4. _______ Crust: The layer of granitic, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, which form the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores
  5. A system for the detection of objects under water and for measuring the water's depth by emitting sound pulses and detecting or measuring their return after being reflected.
  6. _________ Current: Any movement of matter that results from differences in density; may be vertical, circular, or cyclical
  7. The supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up 200 million years ago
  8. An area of significantly increased elevation on Earth’s surface, usually rising to a summit

16 Clues: The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding • A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another • The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other • A vent or fissure in Earth’s surface through which magma and gases are expelled • ...

Crossword puzzle :) 2021-10-26

Crossword puzzle :) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. drift, movement of continents through time
  2. , the rigid outer part of the earth containing the crust and the upper mantle
  3. the rising or settling of a portion of the Earth's lithosphere
  4. boundary, when two or more lithospheric plates collide
  5. the animals living in the sediments of the water
  6. when one crustal plate descends below the edge of another ​
  7. tectonics, Scientific theory describing how major landforms are created
Down
  1. vent, a fissure formed at the seafloor
  2. Boundary, places where plates slide past each other
  3. the removal of moisture
  4. the upper layer of the Earth's mantle
  5. distribution in zones or of definite characteristics
  6. boundary, two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  7. narrow depression on the seafloor formed at the boundary of the tectonic plate hello\
  8. shelf, A part of a continent that are submerged in shallow water

15 Clues: the removal of moisture • the upper layer of the Earth's mantle • vent, a fissure formed at the seafloor • drift, movement of continents through time • the animals living in the sediments of the water • Boundary, places where plates slide past each other • distribution in zones or of definite characteristics • boundary, when two or more lithospheric plates collide • ...

Marine Bio Module 1 Crossword Puzzle A 2024-09-08

Marine Bio Module 1 Crossword Puzzle A crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the world's largest ocean
  2. In seafloor spreading plates move ____ from each other.
  3. the portion of the earth’s crust that is mostly basalt
  4. This layer of the earth is thought to be made of solid iron.
  5. Plate ____ is a process involving the movement of large plates in the earth's mantle.
  6. the scientist who proposed the continental drift theory
  7. The ____ core is thought to generate the magnetic field.
Down
  1. the downward movement of one plate into the earth’s mantle when two plates collide
  2. Each ____ is bounded by ocean trench or a ridge.
  3. ____ is heavier than granite.
  4. Continental ____ form when ocean crust subducts under continental crust.
  5. the ancient supercontinent
  6. the location that causes the earth’s tectonic plates to move
  7. The mantle is made up of ____ that is near its melting point.

14 Clues: the world's largest ocean • the ancient supercontinent • ____ is heavier than granite. • Each ____ is bounded by ocean trench or a ridge. • the portion of the earth’s crust that is mostly basalt • In seafloor spreading plates move ____ from each other. • the scientist who proposed the continental drift theory • The ____ core is thought to generate the magnetic field. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-01-12

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the slower type of seismic wave that can only pass through a solid
  2. the place where the Earthquake begins
  3. The way that energy is released from an earthquake
  4. the place directly above the focus
  5. shaking of the Earth caused by moving tectonic plates
Down
  1. the fastest type of seismic wave
  2. the layer of Earth that has the highest density
  3. the layer of Earth that is molten
  4. the part of the Earth where convection occurs
  5. the part of the Earth that includes the crust and uppermost mantle

10 Clues: the fastest type of seismic wave • the layer of Earth that is molten • the place directly above the focus • the place where the Earthquake begins • the part of the Earth where convection occurs • the layer of Earth that has the highest density • The way that energy is released from an earthquake • shaking of the Earth caused by moving tectonic plates • ...

plate tectonics 2022-02-28

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the scientist who discovered plate tectonics
  2. boundary in which two plates slide past each other
  3. the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.
  4. boundary in which two plates slide into each other
  5. the upper mantle
Down
  1. oceanic plate slides under the continental.
  2. made up of semi-plastic rock
  3. the relatively thick part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses.
  4. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  5. boundary in which two plates slide apart from each other

10 Clues: the upper mantle • made up of semi-plastic rock • oceanic plate slides under the continental. • the scientist who discovered plate tectonics • boundary in which two plates slide past each other • boundary in which two plates slide into each other • boundary in which two plates slide apart from each other • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-02-15

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A fluid propelled by convection
  2. Where convection currents occur
  3. Plates that slide past each other.
  4. Plates that collide and come together
  5. Plates that move apart
  6. A gap between the plates
Down
  1. When there's a gap in the ocean floor and magma fills it in
  2. When two plates come together but one submerges under the other plate.
  3. Formed when a subduction boundary happens.
  4. Molten Rock

10 Clues: Molten Rock • Plates that move apart • A gap between the plates • A fluid propelled by convection • Where convection currents occur • Plates that slide past each other. • Plates that collide and come together • Formed when a subduction boundary happens. • When there's a gap in the ocean floor and magma fills it in • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-02-15

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When two plates diverge, this substance fills the space between them.
  2. The place where two plates meet.
  3. The place where two oceanic plates diverge.
  4. When two plates come together
  5. When two plates move away
  6. This forms when two plates converge.
  7. When a plate slides under another plate in a convergent boundary.
Down
  1. When this occurs, it creates earthquakes.
  2. In the mantle, this occurs due to heat being created.
  3. This landform occurs when two plates diverge.

10 Clues: When two plates move away • When two plates come together • The place where two plates meet. • This forms when two plates converge. • When this occurs, it creates earthquakes. • The place where two oceanic plates diverge. • This landform occurs when two plates diverge. • In the mantle, this occurs due to heat being created. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-11-18

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. proposed the idea of continental drift
  2. tectonic plates sliding against each other
  3. tectonic plates crashing into each other
  4. proposed the theory of sea floor spreading
  5. the upper layer of the mantle, responsible for tectonic plate movement
  6. core the innermost and hottest layer of the earth
Down
  1. created by divergent boundaries in the ocean
  2. the outermost layer of earth
  3. tectonic plates spreading apart, dividing
  4. created by plates crashing into each other

10 Clues: the outermost layer of earth • proposed the idea of continental drift • tectonic plates crashing into each other • tectonic plates spreading apart, dividing • tectonic plates sliding against each other • created by plates crashing into each other • proposed the theory of sea floor spreading • created by divergent boundaries in the ocean • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-11-18

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Plates going back into the mantle
  2. Molten rock
  3. Moving together
  4. Occurs in transform boundaries
  5. Under the Earth; control everything
Down
  1. 2 plates sliding past each other
  2. Moving apart
  3. Occur at divergent boundaries
  4. Occurs in convergent boundaries
  5. All the Earth

10 Clues: Molten rock • Moving apart • All the Earth • Moving together • Occur at divergent boundaries • Occurs in transform boundaries • Occurs in convergent boundaries • 2 plates sliding past each other • Plates going back into the mantle • Under the Earth; control everything

Plate Tectonics 2021-11-18

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. two plates crash into each other
  2. hardened magma
  3. tectonic plates collide and create mountains
  4. causes earthquakes
Down
  1. plates collide and the denser one goes underneath
  2. tectonic plates that divide apart
  3. pieces of the crust that move around
  4. causes plates to move
  5. occur at divergent boundaries
  6. houses convection currents

10 Clues: hardened magma • causes earthquakes • causes plates to move • houses convection currents • occur at divergent boundaries • two plates crash into each other • tectonic plates that divide apart • pieces of the crust that move around • tectonic plates collide and create mountains • plates collide and the denser one goes underneath

Plate Tectonics 2021-11-18

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. two plates crash into each other
  2. tectonic plates that divide apart
  3. causes plates to move
  4. causes earthquakes
  5. pieces of the crust that move around
Down
  1. plates collide and the denser one goes underneath
  2. tectonic plates collide and create mountains
  3. hardened magma
  4. houses convection currents
  5. occur at divergent boundaries

10 Clues: hardened magma • causes earthquakes • causes plates to move • houses convection currents • occur at divergent boundaries • two plates crash into each other • tectonic plates that divide apart • pieces of the crust that move around • tectonic plates collide and create mountains • plates collide and the denser one goes underneath

Plate Tectonics 2022-03-25

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When plates pull apart.
  2. Form when plates converge at the same density.
  3. Together referred as the lithosphere.
  4. Moves the tectonic plates.
Down
  1. Forms when plates diverge.
  2. Molten rock inside the Earth.
  3. When plates move towards each other.
  4. When plates of different density converge.
  5. When plates slide past each other.
  6. Occurs when tension releases during a transform boundary.

10 Clues: When plates pull apart. • Forms when plates diverge. • Moves the tectonic plates. • Molten rock inside the Earth. • When plates slide past each other. • When plates move towards each other. • Together referred as the lithosphere. • When plates of different density converge. • Form when plates converge at the same density. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-02-03

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Convergent Oceanic-Oceanic
  2. Collide
  3. Slide
  4. Transform
Down
  1. Faults
  2. Convergent Continental-Continental
  3. Convergent Oceanic-Continental
  4. Divergent Oceanic-Oceanic
  5. Divide
  6. Divergent Continental-Continental

10 Clues: Slide • Faults • Divide • Collide • Transform • Divergent Oceanic-Oceanic • Convergent Oceanic-Oceanic • Convergent Oceanic-Continental • Divergent Continental-Continental • Convergent Continental-Continental

Plate Tectonics 2022-02-16

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A place where one plate goes under another
  2. A area or crack between two plates
  3. A long span of mountains in the ocean
  4. A Sudden or violent shaking of the ground
  5. A big area of land that moves
  6. A boundary where two plates slide against each other
Down
  1. A process that moves plates using heat from the core
  2. A boundary where two plates collide
  3. A boundary where two plates move away from each other
  4. Lava that has come up from the surface

10 Clues: A big area of land that moves • A area or crack between two plates • A boundary where two plates collide • A long span of mountains in the ocean • Lava that has come up from the surface • A Sudden or violent shaking of the ground • A place where one plate goes under another • A process that moves plates using heat from the core • ...

Plate tectonics 2022-02-18

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a deep valley that forms where two plates move apart
  2. which plate boundary goes apart from each other?
  3. The layer that is hot and solid material between Earth's crust and core?
  4. Which plate boundary collides and forms mountains?
Down
  1. what is a rock that an animal left behind?
  2. The scientist that invented the theory of continental drift?
  3. Spreading splitting apart from each other.
  4. which plate boundary goes side to side and goes up and down?
  5. The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid?
  6. What was the name that all the continents were together?

10 Clues: what is a rock that an animal left behind? • Spreading splitting apart from each other. • The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid? • which plate boundary goes apart from each other? • Which plate boundary collides and forms mountains? • a deep valley that forms where two plates move apart • What was the name that all the continents were together? • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-02-03

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. relating to ocean
  2. steep hill
  3. has lava and is like a mountain
  4. shaking on the ground
  5. long or narrow
Down
  1. divorce/separate from each other
  2. an area
  3. crash into each other
  4. breaks earthquakes
  5. slide past each other

10 Clues: an area • steep hill • long or narrow • relating to ocean • breaks earthquakes • crash into each other • slide past each other • shaking on the ground • has lava and is like a mountain • divorce/separate from each other

Plate Tectonics 2022-03-30

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. continents going away from each other over time
  2. a theory that explains how plates
  3. different rock layers telling us the relative age of said rock
  4. and change shape
  5. Where plates slide underneath another plate
  6. where plates go away from each other
Down
  1. where plates slide past each other
  2. where plates collide into each other
  3. Events of the earths history as a whole
  4. super continent

10 Clues: super continent • and change shape • a theory that explains how plates • where plates slide past each other • where plates collide into each other • where plates go away from each other • Events of the earths history as a whole • Where plates slide underneath another plate • continents going away from each other over time • ...

Plate Tectonics 2014-04-24

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. crust Makes up the crust beneath the oceans
  2. Location on earth directly above the focus
  3. A crack in the mass of rock or soil
  4. boundary Where two plates collide
  5. The Japanese word for wave in harbor
Down
  1. Located below the crust
  2. boundary Where two plates separate
  3. crust Makes up the continents
  4. The upper portion of the lithosphere
  5. A mountain composed of extrusive igneous rocks

10 Clues: Located below the crust • crust Makes up the continents • boundary Where two plates collide • boundary Where two plates separate • A crack in the mass of rock or soil • The upper portion of the lithosphere • The Japanese word for wave in harbor • Location on earth directly above the focus • crust Makes up the crust beneath the oceans • ...

Plate Tectonics 2014-05-06

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Tectonics The theory that states that the earth’s crust is made of large sections, or plates.
  2. Drift The theory that the earth’s continent s used to be joined as a single, large landmass called Pangaea. Pangaea started breaking up millions of years ago. The continents slowly moved to their present positions.
  3. Boundaries These happen when 2 plates move away from each other. When this happens lava has room to come up through the cracks and form new crust.
  4. The mantle is the middle layer of the earth. The mantle is made of liquid and solid rock that moves and churns.
Down
  1. Currents The circular movement of a liquid or a gas as it heats. It is believed that convection currents are what moves continental plates.
  2. The large landmass that existed millions of years ago. It broke up to form today’s continents.
  3. Boundaries Areas where plates move toward each other and collide.
  4. The core is the center of the earth. It is made of solid iron and nickel, surrounded by melted iron and nickel.
  5. Boundaries where plates essentially grind past each other with no subduction.
  6. The crust is the outermost layer of the earth. Compared to the other layers, the crust is very thin and cold.

10 Clues: Boundaries Areas where plates move toward each other and collide. • Boundaries where plates essentially grind past each other with no subduction. • Tectonics The theory that states that the earth’s crust is made of large sections, or plates. • The large landmass that existed millions of years ago. It broke up to form today’s continents. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2014-05-06

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The crust is the outermost layer of the earth. Compared to the other layers, the crust is very thin and cold.
  2. The circular movement of a liquid or a gas as it heats. It is believed that convection currents are what moves continental plates.
  3. Tectonics The theory that states that the earth’s crust is made of large sections, or plates.
  4. The mantle is the middle layer of the earth. The mantle is made of liquid and solid rock that moves and churns.
  5. The large landmass that existed millions of years ago. It broke up to form today’s continents.
  6. Areas where plates move toward each other and collide.
Down
  1. where plates essentially grind past each other with no subduction.
  2. These happen when 2 plates move away from each other. When this happens lava has room to come up through the cracks and form new crust.
  3. The theory that the earth’s continent s used to be joined as a single, large landmass called Pangaea. Pangaea started breaking up millions of years ago. The continents slowly moved to their present positions.
  4. The core is the center of the earth. It is made of solid iron and nickel, surrounded by melted iron and nickel.

10 Clues: Areas where plates move toward each other and collide. • where plates essentially grind past each other with no subduction. • Tectonics The theory that states that the earth’s crust is made of large sections, or plates. • The large landmass that existed millions of years ago. It broke up to form today’s continents. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2014-01-12

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. along
  2. continents slowly moved over earth's surface
  3. supercontinent
  4. ocean floor sinking
  5. cracking
Down
  1. deep valley
  2. underwater canyons
  3. atop the mantle
  4. away
  5. towards

10 Clues: away • along • towards • cracking • deep valley • supercontinent • atop the mantle • underwater canyons • ocean floor sinking • continents slowly moved over earth's surface

Plate Tectonics 2012-12-11

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Enormous moving pieces of the Earth's lithosphere.
  2. The idea that Earth's lithosphere is broken into several large pieces of land that move around on Earth's convecting asthenosphere.
  3. Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.
  4. A boundary where one plate-usually made of dense, oceanic crust-collides and sinks under less dense crust.
  5. Theory that new seafloor is formed at a divergent plate boundary, when magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge.
  6. An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a devergent plate boundary.
Down
  1. A navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver.
  2. An area created when cooler, denser fluid material sinks and the warmer, less dense fluid material rises to the surface.
  3. Occur when plates slide and grind past one another along a fracture in the lithosphere.
  4. The amount of force exerted per unit area of a surface.

10 Clues: Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface. • Enormous moving pieces of the Earth's lithosphere. • The amount of force exerted per unit area of a surface. • Occur when plates slide and grind past one another along a fracture in the lithosphere. • An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a devergent plate boundary. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2012-11-13

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. outburst of lava
  2. seperation
  3. cha cha slide
  4. come together
  5. we live here
  6. consistancy of jam
Down
  1. terrifying tremor
  2. going down down down
  3. I am HOT!
  4. i have land

10 Clues: I am HOT! • seperation • i have land • we live here • cha cha slide • come together • outburst of lava • terrifying tremor • consistancy of jam • going down down down

plate tectonics 2023-03-07

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. zone When 1 of the tectonic plates gets pushed under the mantle
  2. boundaries 2 tectonic plates move toward each other
  3. Hot melted rock
  4. occur when 2 tectonic plates move and grind against each other
  5. spreading When the areas of oceanic heat get formed
Down
  1. boundaries When 2 tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. ridge A ridge in the middle of the ocean
  3. when explosives come out of opened mountain
  4. boundaries two tectonic plates move across each other
  5. When 1 of the 2 tectonic plates splits apart

10 Clues: Hot melted rock • when explosives come out of opened mountain • When 1 of the 2 tectonic plates splits apart • ridge A ridge in the middle of the ocean • spreading When the areas of oceanic heat get formed • boundaries 2 tectonic plates move toward each other • boundaries two tectonic plates move across each other • ...

Plate tectonics 2023-03-07

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A ridge in the middle of the ocean.
  2. Two plates moving together
  3. Blank is made at destructive, or convergent, plate boundaries.
  4. When the ocean floor goes under another.
  5. New areas of ocean crust.
Down
  1. Two tectonic plates that slide past each other.
  2. Two plates moving in opposite directions.
  3. Melted rock
  4. Valleys that form at divergent boundaries.
  5. Blank is made at convergent boundaries.

10 Clues: Melted rock • New areas of ocean crust. • Two plates moving together • A ridge in the middle of the ocean. • Blank is made at convergent boundaries. • When the ocean floor goes under another. • Two plates moving in opposite directions. • Valleys that form at divergent boundaries. • Two tectonic plates that slide past each other. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-03-06

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Where the ocean floor plunges into deep underwater canyons over tens of millions of years
  2. Long chains of mountain that rise up from the ocean floor
  3. States that Earth's plates are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle
  4. Process where new molten material from inside Earth rises, erupts, cools, and hardens to form a solid strip of rock along mid-ocean ridges
  5. Where plates slip past each other
  6. Breaks in earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other
Down
  1. Where plates move apart, or diverge, from each other
  2. Where plates come together, or converge
  3. The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle again
  4. Where pieces of Earth's crust diverge on land

10 Clues: Where plates slip past each other • Where plates come together, or converge • Where pieces of Earth's crust diverge on land • Where plates move apart, or diverge, from each other • Long chains of mountain that rise up from the ocean floor • Breaks in earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-03-19

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. two plates come together
  2. when two plates slide past each other, this can form
  3. valleys that occur at divergent boundaries
  4. underwater mountain ridge
Down
  1. when two plates of equal density collide, this can form
  2. two plates move away from each other
  3. two plates that slide past each other
  4. drive the movement of earth's tectonic plates in the planets mantle
  5. long, narrow depression the seafloor that form at the boundaries of the plates
  6. molten rock

10 Clues: molten rock • two plates come together • underwater mountain ridge • two plates move away from each other • two plates that slide past each other • valleys that occur at divergent boundaries • when two plates slide past each other, this can form • when two plates of equal density collide, this can form • drive the movement of earth's tectonic plates in the planets mantle • ...

Plate tectonics 2022-09-29

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Plates that move away from each other
  2. Openings where lava, rock, and steam erupt
  3. When two plates slip past each other
  4. Slab of solid rock on earths crust
  5. Compactness of a substance
Down
  1. The crust of the plate goes into the mantle
  2. The ¨middle¨ of Earth surface
  3. A single split tectonic plate
  4. Plates that move towards each other
  5. Plates that move against each other

10 Clues: Compactness of a substance • The ¨middle¨ of Earth surface • A single split tectonic plate • Slab of solid rock on earths crust • Plates that move towards each other • Plates that move against each other • When two plates slip past each other • Plates that move away from each other • Openings where lava, rock, and steam erupt • The crust of the plate goes into the mantle

Plate Tectonics 2022-10-03

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. earth's layer with slowly flowing mantle rock that allows tectonic plates to move
  2. The outer layer of the earth
  3. Rigid outer part of the earth, made of the crust and upper mantle
  4. The continents moving across the earth in periods of time
  5. area inbetween the earth's crust and core with hot, dense silicate rocks
Down
  1. a major fault separating blocks of the earth's surface
  2. Solid material in the center of some planets at a high temperature and pressure
  3. a path along the pacific ocean that has a lot of active volcanos and frequent earthquakes
  4. currents caused by rising hot matter, and sinking cooler matter
  5. Supercontinent

10 Clues: Supercontinent • The outer layer of the earth • a major fault separating blocks of the earth's surface • The continents moving across the earth in periods of time • currents caused by rising hot matter, and sinking cooler matter • Rigid outer part of the earth, made of the crust and upper mantle • ...

plate tectonics 2022-12-12

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The continents of Africa, South America, India, Australia, and Antarctica when all the continents were a single landmass.
  2. The vent on the earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled is a called a BLANK.
  3. the process by which Earth's crust breaks apart; can occur within continental crust or oceanic crust
  4. boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other.
  5. When the earth's tectonic plates move, we call this a BLANK.
  6. where two plates are moving apart, magma comes up to create new crust
Down
  1. boundary between two colliding plates, often associated with mountain building ocean trenches and volcanic islands
  2. The continents of North America and Eurasia when all the continents were a single landmass.
  3. the solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
  4. is the layer of the upper mantle composed of low-density rock matterial that is semiplastic,like putty.

10 Clues: When the earth's tectonic plates move, we call this a BLANK. • boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other. • where two plates are moving apart, magma comes up to create new crust • The continents of North America and Eurasia when all the continents were a single landmass. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-01-22

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This is what is formed by divergent boundaries.
  2. A boundary where 2 tectonic plates move away from each other.
  3. This forms as a plate jam together and releases suddenly.
  4. This is made by transform boundary.
  5. This also occurs in divergent boundaries.
Down
  1. This occurs in divergent boundaries.
  2. The plate with greater density will go underneath the plate with less density.
  3. A boundary where 2 tectonic plates collide towards each other.
  4. A boundary where 2 tectonic plates slide across from each other.
  5. This is what makes tectonic plates move.

10 Clues: This is made by transform boundary. • This occurs in divergent boundaries. • This is what makes tectonic plates move. • This also occurs in divergent boundaries. • This is what is formed by divergent boundaries. • This forms as a plate jam together and releases suddenly. • A boundary where 2 tectonic plates move away from each other. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-01-20

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Geological form of convergent boundary
  2. Where tectonic plates meet
  3. Plates that move apart
  4. Plates that collide
  5. Plate that slide past each other
Down
  1. Lowland region
  2. Slides under other tectonic plate
  3. Thickness of tectonic plate
  4. Occurs in mantle
  5. Molten rock

10 Clues: Molten rock • Lowland region • Occurs in mantle • Plates that collide • Plates that move apart • Where tectonic plates meet • Thickness of tectonic plate • Plate that slide past each other • Slides under other tectonic plate • Geological form of convergent boundary

Plate tectonics 2023-01-27

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. what is it called when lava is in the earths core?
  2. What is it called when plates slide up against each other?
  3. what is it called when plates move the opisite direction from each other?
  4. what was the super continent from 300-200 million years ago called?
  5. what is it called when plates move towards each other?
Down
  1. who was the person who first made the plate tectonics theory?
  2. what is the layer under the crust called?
  3. what is it called when magma exits the earths core?
  4. what is the layer near the inner core called?
  5. what is the cause of the oceanic crust sliding under the continental

10 Clues: what is the layer under the crust called? • what is the layer near the inner core called? • what is it called when lava is in the earths core? • what is it called when magma exits the earths core? • what is it called when plates move towards each other? • What is it called when plates slide up against each other? • ...

plate tectonics 2023-03-31

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When two plates come together, it is known as a convergent boundary. The impact of the colliding plates can cause the edges of one or both plates to buckle up into a mountain ranges or one of the plates may bend down into a deep seafloor trench.
  2. dig a trench or trenches in the ground.
  3. A convection current is a process that involves the movement of energy from one place to another.
  4. The transform plate boundary is a broad zone forming as the Pacific Plate slides northwestward past the North American Plate. It includes many lesser faults in addition to the San Andreas Fault
  5. Mid-ocean ridges occur along divergent plate boundaries, where new ocean floor is created as the Earth's tectonic plates spread apart
  6. a hot monten
Down
  1. A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface
  2. crakorsplit in half
  3. If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the converging plates will move beneath the other, a process known as subduction.
  4. a hot flued in the ground

10 Clues: a hot monten • crakorsplit in half • a hot flued in the ground • dig a trench or trenches in the ground. • A convection current is a process that involves the movement of energy from one place to another. • Mid-ocean ridges occur along divergent plate boundaries, where new ocean floor is created as the Earth's tectonic plates spread apart • ...

plate tectonics 2023-03-31

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When two plates come together, it is known as a convergent boundary. The impact of the colliding plates can cause the edges of one or both plates to buckle up into a mountain ranges or one of the plates may bend down into a deep seafloor trench.
  2. dig a trench or trenches in the ground.
  3. A convection current is a process that involves the movement of energy from one place to another.
  4. The transform plate boundary is a broad zone forming as the Pacific Plate slides northwestward past the North American Plate. It includes many lesser faults in addition to the San Andreas Fault
  5. Mid-ocean ridges occur along divergent plate boundaries, where new ocean floor is created as the Earth's tectonic plates spread apart
  6. a hot monten
Down
  1. A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface
  2. crakorsplit in half
  3. If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the converging plates will move beneath the other, a process known as subduction.
  4. a hot flued in the ground

10 Clues: a hot monten • crakorsplit in half • a hot flued in the ground • dig a trench or trenches in the ground. • A convection current is a process that involves the movement of energy from one place to another. • Mid-ocean ridges occur along divergent plate boundaries, where new ocean floor is created as the Earth's tectonic plates spread apart • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-02-27

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Lava under the surface
  2. happens when plates are apart
  3. Moves plates
  4. Mountains with lava in them
  5. Valleys in the ocean
Down
  1. Happens when plates collide
  2. Happens with transform boundary
  3. Plates spread apart
  4. Slides
  5. Collides plates

10 Clues: Slides • Moves plates • Collides plates • Plates spread apart • Valleys in the ocean • Lava under the surface • Happens when plates collide • Mountains with lava in them • happens when plates are apart • Happens with transform boundary

Plate Tectonics 2023-04-06

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Another thing that a convergent boundary causes.
  2. One thing that a convergent boundary causes
  3. When two plates collide into each other.
  4. When two plates slide past each other.
  5. When to plates collide and form mountains or volcano's.
Down
  1. When two plates move away from each other.
  2. Something that happen in a divergent boundary.
  3. Lava
  4. The geological event a transform boundary causes
  5. Basins The geological event a divergent boundary causes

10 Clues: Lava • When two plates slide past each other. • When two plates collide into each other. • When two plates move away from each other. • One thing that a convergent boundary causes • Something that happen in a divergent boundary. • Another thing that a convergent boundary causes. • The geological event a transform boundary causes • ...

Plate Tectonics 2017-03-10

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Tsunami
  2. SeafloorSpreading
  3. Transform
  4. Volcano
  5. Divergent
Down
  1. Asthenosphere
  2. Convergent
  3. Continents
  4. PlateTectonics
  5. Earthquake

10 Clues: Tsunami • Volcano • Transform • Divergent • Convergent • Continents • Earthquake • Asthenosphere • PlateTectonics • SeafloorSpreading

Plate Tectonics 2020-02-23

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. basins / Dense crust that sinks lower in the asthenosphere than the less dense continental crust resulting in depression on Earth's surface and fills with water
  2. / Major geological events that occur when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy; a frequent occurrence at transform boundaries
  3. / what happens when two plates of equal density converge
  4. Plate / A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that is composed entirely of oceanic crust; lies beneath the Pacific
  5. plate / A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere including most of the land masses of Europe and Asia
  6. / occurs when one plate is denser than another and is forced below as the two plates converge at their boundary
Down
  1. American Plate / A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere including the continental crust of Greenland, North America, Siberia, and the surrounding oceanic crust.
  2. / Major geological events that occur when a dense plate subducts below a less dense plate
  3. / Huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere, and consists of the crust and the rigid, upppermost part of the mantle
  4. plate / A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere composed of the continental crust of Africa and surrounding oceanic crust

10 Clues: / what happens when two plates of equal density converge • / Major geological events that occur when a dense plate subducts below a less dense plate • plate / A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere including most of the land masses of Europe and Asia • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-04-02

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The sinking of plates under another plate.
  2. Continental plates move away from each other.
  3. Continental plates slide against each other.
  4. The floor of the Earth.
  5. Continental plates move torward each other.
Down
  1. This natural event happens when the crust shakes from transform-like movement.
  2. Heat movement of Earth's continental plates.
  3. Mountain that forms when magma rises to the surface.
  4. Earth's center.
  5. Melted rock.

10 Clues: Melted rock. • Earth's center. • The floor of the Earth. • The sinking of plates under another plate. • Continental plates move torward each other. • Heat movement of Earth's continental plates. • Continental plates slide against each other. • Continental plates move away from each other. • Mountain that forms when magma rises to the surface. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-03-23

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. makes plates move
  2. where currents are
  3. zone forms volcanoes
  4. layer right under the crust
  5. the crust of continents is
Down
  1. plates go apart
  2. slide past each other
  3. plates go together
  4. Ocean floor is made of...
  5. Earths crust is made of...

10 Clues: plates go apart • makes plates move • where currents are • plates go together • zone forms volcanoes • slide past each other • Ocean floor is made of... • Earths crust is made of... • the crust of continents is • layer right under the crust

Plate Tectonics 2021-05-03

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. toward one point
  2. any where in the water
  3. in the center
  4. The outside of everything
Down
  1. move away from each other
  2. larger than a hill
  3. where 2 plates meet
  4. slide sideways past each other
  5. Ground shakes
  6. Earth's outer shell is divided

10 Clues: Ground shakes • in the center • toward one point • larger than a hill • where 2 plates meet • any where in the water • move away from each other • The outside of everything • slide sideways past each other • Earth's outer shell is divided

Plate Tectonics 2021-09-29

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Boundaries that move away from each other
  2. A geological formation that occurs from divergent boundaries
  3. The currents that move the tectonic plates
  4. Ranges of these are created at convergent boundaries
  5. Scientist that proposed the idea of Continental Drift
  6. Molten rock
Down
  1. This occurs when two plates collide and the heavier plate is pushed beneath the thinner plate
  2. Boundaries that move towards one another
  3. Boundaries that slide past each other
  4. The name of all the continents combined

10 Clues: Molten rock • Boundaries that slide past each other • The name of all the continents combined • Boundaries that move towards one another • Boundaries that move away from each other • The currents that move the tectonic plates • Ranges of these are created at convergent boundaries • Scientist that proposed the idea of Continental Drift • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-09-29

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Boundaries that slide past each other
  2. Ranges of these are created at convergent boundaries
  3. The currents that move the tectonic plates
  4. Boundaries that move towards one another
  5. The name of all the continents combined
Down
  1. A geological formation that occurs from divergent boundaries
  2. Molten rock
  3. This occurs when two plates collide and the heavier plate is pushed beneath the thinner plate
  4. Scientist that proposed the idea of Continental Drift
  5. Boundaries that move away from each other

10 Clues: Molten rock • Boundaries that slide past each other • The name of all the continents combined • Boundaries that move towards one another • Boundaries that move away from each other • The currents that move the tectonic plates • Ranges of these are created at convergent boundaries • Scientist that proposed the idea of Continental Drift • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-11-08

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when new magma fills the gap left by dividing plates on a landmass, that is called a...
  2. The natural disaster that transform boundaries cause.
  3. when one convergent plate is denser than the other, this forms:
  4. Two tectonic plates moving away from each other in opposite directions.
  5. Two tectonic plates converging and overlapping.
Down
  1. When two plates slide past each other.
  2. When new magma fills the gap left by dividing plates on the ocean floor, it leaves a...
  3. Molten rock.
  4. Convergent, divergent, and transform are all...
  5. When plates converge, old crust is...

10 Clues: Molten rock. • When plates converge, old crust is... • When two plates slide past each other. • Convergent, divergent, and transform are all... • Two tectonic plates converging and overlapping. • The natural disaster that transform boundaries cause. • when one convergent plate is denser than the other, this forms: • ...

Plate tectonics 2022-11-01

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. continuous process of forming new igneous rock at mid ocean ridges by ingection of magma that forms new sea floor
  2. underwater mountain range
  3. a break or crack in the earth's surface
Down
  1. a region where two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. a region where two tectonic plates slide past each other
  3. a region where two tectonic plates collide or push together
  4. the region where one of the plates slide under another plate
  5. a crack that forms between two tectonic plates
  6. an area of volcanic activity generally in the middle of a plate
  7. shaking that occurs when rock in Earth's crust breaks and releases pressure quickly

10 Clues: underwater mountain range • a break or crack in the earth's surface • a crack that forms between two tectonic plates • a region where two tectonic plates slide past each other • a region where two tectonic plates collide or push together • a region where two tectonic plates move away from each other • the region where one of the plates slide under another plate • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-11-01

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. magma creating new crust
  2. split in the earth
  3. colliding/coming together
  4. molten rock in the earth
  5. denser plate under less dense one
  6. slide past each other
  7. a shake or rupture in the earth
Down
  1. plate made of ocean
  2. dividing/moving away
  3. plate made of continent

10 Clues: split in the earth • plate made of ocean • dividing/moving away • slide past each other • plate made of continent • magma creating new crust • molten rock in the earth • colliding/coming together • a shake or rupture in the earth • denser plate under less dense one

Plate Tectonics 2022-11-01

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. magma creating new crust
  2. split in the earth
  3. colliding/coming together
  4. molten rock in the earth
  5. denser plate under less dense one
  6. slide past each other
  7. a shake or rupture in the earth
Down
  1. plate made of ocean
  2. dividing/moving away
  3. plate made of continent

10 Clues: split in the earth • plate made of ocean • dividing/moving away • slide past each other • plate made of continent • magma creating new crust • molten rock in the earth • colliding/coming together • a shake or rupture in the earth • denser plate under less dense one

PLATE TECTONICS 2022-10-19

PLATE TECTONICS crossword puzzle
Across
  1. MOLTEN ROCK
  2. ZONE OR FRACTURES BETWEEN ROCKS
  3. CONVERGETN BOUNDARIES
  4. SLIDE PAST EACHOTHER
  5. MOVE AWAY
Down
  1. MOVEMENT OF ENERGY FORM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
  2. DIVERGENT BOUNDARIES
  3. COME TOGETHER
  4. HOW LANDFORMS ARE CREATED
  5. BOUNDARIES OF TECTONIC PLATES

10 Clues: MOVE AWAY • MOLTEN ROCK • COME TOGETHER • DIVERGENT BOUNDARIES • SLIDE PAST EACHOTHER • CONVERGETN BOUNDARIES • HOW LANDFORMS ARE CREATED • BOUNDARIES OF TECTONIC PLATES • ZONE OR FRACTURES BETWEEN ROCKS • MOVEMENT OF ENERGY FORM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER

Plate Tectonics 2022-10-28

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. is made of iron and nickel and is liquid.
  2. shaking of the ground and is usually caused by tectonic plates.
  3. When two plates come together.
  4. mountain like structure filled with magma
  5. outermost layer of Earth.
Down
  1. made of the crust and mantle and move very slowly.
  2. Hottest part of the Earth made of solid nickel and iron.
  3. When two plates move away from one another.
  4. Two plates sliding past each other.
  5. the second layer of the Earth.

10 Clues: outermost layer of Earth. • the second layer of the Earth. • When two plates come together. • Two plates sliding past each other. • is made of iron and nickel and is liquid. • mountain like structure filled with magma • When two plates move away from one another. • made of the crust and mantle and move very slowly. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-11-16

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
  2. where two tectonic plates come together.
  3. A thin layer of crust that underlines the ocean basins.
  4. Occurs at divergent boundary.
  5. layer of rock which forms the continents.
  6. discovered that magma was riding on the sea floor causing it to
  7. Developed the theory that the continents drift.
Down
  1. molten rock.
  2. The engine that moves the plates
  3. where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

10 Clues: molten rock. • Occurs at divergent boundary. • The engine that moves the plates • where two tectonic plates come together. • layer of rock which forms the continents. • Developed the theory that the continents drift. • where two tectonic plates slide past each other. • A thin layer of crust that underlines the ocean basins. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2016-10-04

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide
  2. crust , mantle, inner core, outter core
  3. a detailed description or representation on a map of the natural and artificial features of an area
  4. mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
  5. study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around the earth
Down
  1. gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
  2. formation of new areas of oceanic crust
  3. supercontinent
  4. individual who uses the scientific method
  5. remains or impression of a prehistoric

10 Clues: supercontinent • remains or impression of a prehistoric • formation of new areas of oceanic crust • crust , mantle, inner core, outter core • individual who uses the scientific method • study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around the earth • gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time. • ...