plate tectonics Crossword Puzzles

Module 13: Plate Tectonics 2025-04-09

Module 13: Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. (page 357)
  2. Wegener found similar _____ of several different types of animals and plants that once lived on or near land had been found on widely separated continents. (page 346)
  3. Hypothesis developed by Wegner that proposed that Earth’s continents had once been joined as a single landmass and then broke apart. (page 345 – two words)
  4. The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another. (page 362)
  5. Type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other. (page 357)
  6. A device that helps study the depth of the ocean floor by using sound waves to measure distance by measuring the time it takes for sound waves sent from a ship to bounce off the seafloor and return to the ship. (page 349)
  7. Forms from the compaction and decomposition of accumulations of ancient swamp plants that grew in warm, wet regions, but were found in extremely cold environments. (page 347 – two words)
  8. Theory that describes how tectonic plates move and shape Earth’s surface. (page 356 – two words)
  9. The theory that explains how new oceanic crust forms at ocean ridges, slowly moves away from ocean ridges, and is destroyed at deep-sea trenches. (page 355 – two words)
  10. A narrow, elongated depression in the seafloor that can be thousands of kilometers long and many kilometers deep. (page 350 – three words)
  11. Observations of ocean-floor sediments revelated that the _____ of the sediments increases with distance from an ocean ridge. (page 351)
  12. Wegener observed that ____ in the Appalachian Mountains were identical to those in the mountains of Greenland and Europe. (page 346)
Down
  1. Form parallel to a trench when two oceanic plates collide. (page 358 – two words)
  2. The name of the supercontinent that contained all the Earth’s continents as a single landmass. (page 345)
  3. A device that can detect small changes in magnetic fields that was used to study the ocean floor. (page 349)
  4. Earth’s magnetic field is generated by the flow of _____ in the outer core. (page 352 – two words)
  5. Found in Africa, India, Australia, and South America indicating that were once covered by a thick ice cap and then drifted to warmer locations. (page 347 – two words)
  6. Two features that are created when an oceanic and continental plate collide. (page 358 – two words)
  7. A continuous mountain chain on the ocean floor where new ocean rock forms. (page 357 – three words)
  8. Long, narrow depression that forms when continental crust begins to separate. (page 357 – two words)
  9. Occurs when the flow in the outer core changes, and Earth’s magnetic field changes direction. (page 352 – two words)
  10. Type of plate boundary where two plates slide horizontally past each other. (page 360).
  11. Huge pieces of crust and upper mantle that fit together at their edges to cover Earth’s surface. (page 356 – two words)
  12. German meteorologist that first proposed the scientific hypothesis that the continents were moving. (page 344 – two words)
  13. The age of oceanic crust consistently _____ with distance from a ridge. (page 351)
  14. A process where the denser plate descends below a less-dense plate when they collide. (page 357)

26 Clues: Form parallel to a trench when two oceanic plates collide. (page 358 – two words) • The age of oceanic crust consistently _____ with distance from a ridge. (page 351) • Type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other. (page 357) • Type of plate boundary where two plates slide horizontally past each other. (page 360). • ...

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade 2022-10-27

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade crossword puzzle
Across
  1. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together
  2. - The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 millions years ago and gave rise to today’s continents.
  3. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  4. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  5. tectonics - The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by conventional currents in the mantle.
  6. spreading - The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  7. ridge - An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary under the ocean
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  1. drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface.
  2. trench - A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantel
  3. - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
  4. - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move
  5. - The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantel at a convergent plate boundary
  6. boundary - A valley that forms where plates spread apart at spreading boundaries
  7. - A section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust

14 Clues: boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together • - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move • boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past. • drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface. • ...

ellie s. astronomy vocab 2023-02-01

ellie s. astronomy vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. region surrounding the earth or another astronomical body
  2. a zone of energetic charged particles
  3. an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes
  4. Redirection of a wave as it passes from one median to another
  5. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter material
  6. plates moving closer together
  7. the outer layer of the earth
  8. when plate tectonics move apart from each other
  9. theory explaining the structure of the Earth’s crust
  10. fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal
  11. volcanoes throughout a fault
  12. sideways and downward movement of tectonic plates
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  1. the continuous flow of charged particles from sun which permeates the solar system
  2. A metric until of length equal to 1,000 meters
  3. the study of the earth
  4. An elastic wave in the earth caused by earthquakes
  5. what makes something different
  6. rock formed by deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth’s surface
  7. rock that has transformed from intense heat/pressure
  8. a rock that solidified from lava or magma

20 Clues: the study of the earth • the outer layer of the earth • volcanoes throughout a fault • plates moving closer together • what makes something different • a zone of energetic charged particles • a rock that solidified from lava or magma • A metric until of length equal to 1,000 meters • when plate tectonics move apart from each other • ...

Plate Tectonics By:Mathew Rodriguez 2013-02-21

Plate Tectonics By:Mathew Rodriguez crossword puzzle
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  1. stress that squeezes or pushes rock together
  2. a layer of weak or soft mantle
  3. any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground.
  4. when 2 plates collide
  5. plce in earth
  6. extends below the mantle to the center of the earth
  7. the lithosphere divided into different parts
  8. pulls rock apart
  9. Liquid layer of earths crust
  10. 2 plates slide against each other.
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  1. All the continents put together
  2. 2 plates that move away from eachother
  3. describes large scale movements of earths lithosphere
  4. located between the core and the crust
  5. Where 2 or more tectonic plates meet
  6. rock layers bend under stress
  7. quakes 2 pltes move suddenly releasing energy
  8. center of our planet
  9. magnetic patterns of sea floor rock
  10. the outer most layer of earth.
  11. stress that pushes rock in a parralell position
  12. lower part of the mantle

22 Clues: plce in earth • pulls rock apart • center of our planet • when 2 plates collide • lower part of the mantle • Liquid layer of earths crust • rock layers bend under stress • a layer of weak or soft mantle • the outer most layer of earth. • All the continents put together • 2 plates slide against each other. • magnetic patterns of sea floor rock • Where 2 or more tectonic plates meet • ...

Geophysics 2023-10-14

Geophysics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - Study of earthquakes and seismic waves.
  2. - Crack in the Earth's crust.
  3. - Measurement of Earth's shape.
  4. - Disturbance in Earth's magnetic field.
  5. - Scientist studying Earth's composition.
  6. - Large crustal section.
  7. - Study of Earth's crustal movements.
  8. - Earth's solid outer layer.
  9. - Study of Earth's magnetic field.
  10. - Semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere.
  11. - Plates responsible for earthquakes.
  12. - Type of rock formed under high pressure and temperature.
  13. - Erupting mountain.
  14. - Earth's outermost layer.
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  1. - Region prone to earthquakes.
  2. - Plate sinking beneath another.
  3. - Heat from the Earth's interior.
  4. - Force of attraction on Earth.
  5. - Point on Earth's surface above an earthquake's origin.
  6. - Related to earthquakes.
  7. - Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.
  8. - Rock formed from deposited materials.
  9. - Layer beneath Earth's crust.
  10. - Geological formations.
  11. - Study of Earth's structure and composition.
  12. - Tremor following a major earthquake.
  13. - Planet of study in geophysics.
  14. - Related to Earth's magnetic field.
  15. - Large sections of Earth's crust.
  16. - Natural, inorganic substances in the Earth.

30 Clues: - Erupting mountain. • - Geological formations. • - Large crustal section. • - Related to earthquakes. • - Earth's outermost layer. • - Earth's solid outer layer. • - Crack in the Earth's crust. • - Region prone to earthquakes. • - Layer beneath Earth's crust. • - Force of attraction on Earth. • - Measurement of Earth's shape. • - Plate sinking beneath another. • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword puzzle 2023-02-09

Plate Tectonics Crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This causes mountains and volcanos to form
  2. Two plates moving away from each other
Down
  1. The person who came up with the thoery of plate tectonics
  2. the theory of how the landmasses drifted
  3. A super continent connected to the theory of plate tectonics

5 Clues: Two plates moving away from each other • the theory of how the landmasses drifted • This causes mountains and volcanos to form • The person who came up with the thoery of plate tectonics • A super continent connected to the theory of plate tectonics

Plate Tectonics 2021-11-03

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What is the bowl-shaped basin in the top of the volcano called?
  2. Which is lighter: oceanic or continental crust?
  3. lava What are the characteristics of a shield volcano?
Down
  1. Ridge where could we see an example of a constructive plate boundary?
  2. plate boundaries where are earthquakes created?
  3. What is the second layer of Earth
  4. What can cause plate tectonics?

7 Clues: What can cause plate tectonics? • What is the second layer of Earth • plate boundaries where are earthquakes created? • Which is lighter: oceanic or continental crust? • lava What are the characteristics of a shield volcano? • What is the bowl-shaped basin in the top of the volcano called? • Ridge where could we see an example of a constructive plate boundary?

Plate Tectonics 2021-01-22

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
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  1. Sections of lithosphere that move and continually change shape and size.
  2. Plate boundary in which plates move away from each other.
  3. Plate boundary in which plates slip past each other side to side.
  4. The uppermost mantle along with the crust behaves as a strong rigid layer known as the lithosphere.
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  1. Plate boundary in which plates move toward each other.
  2. The continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent.
  3. Name of Wegener's supercontinent.

7 Clues: Name of Wegener's supercontinent. • Plate boundary in which plates move toward each other. • Plate boundary in which plates move away from each other. • Plate boundary in which plates slip past each other side to side. • The continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent. • Sections of lithosphere that move and continually change shape and size. • ...

yayayyay 2022-04-22

yayayyay crossword puzzle
Across
  1. crustal-plate
  2. Pangaea plates tectonics
  3. landform Convergent
  4. tectonic-shift
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  1. geodynamic
  2. lithosphere

6 Clues: geodynamic • lithosphere • crustal-plate • tectonic-shift • landform Convergent • Pangaea plates tectonics

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade 2022-10-27

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade crossword puzzle
Across
  1. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together
  2. - The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 millions years ago and gave rise to today’s continents.
  3. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  4. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  5. tectonics - The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convention currents in the mantle.
  6. spreading - The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  7. ridge - An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary under the ocean
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  1. drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface.
  2. trench - A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantel
  3. - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
  4. - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move
  5. - The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantel at a convergent plate boundary
  6. boundary - A valley that forms where plates spread apart at spreading boundaries
  7. - A section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust

14 Clues: boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together • - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move • boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past. • drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface. • ...

Continental Drift 2022-10-27

Continental Drift crossword puzzle
Across
  1. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together
  2. - The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 millions years ago and gave rise to today’s continents.
  3. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  4. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  5. tectonics - The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convention currents in the mantle.
  6. spreading - The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  7. ridge - An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary under the ocean
Down
  1. drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface.
  2. trench - A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantel
  3. - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
  4. - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move
  5. - The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantel at a convergent plate boundary
  6. boundary - A valley that forms where plates spread apart at spreading boundaries
  7. - A section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust

14 Clues: boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together • - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move • boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past. • drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface. • ...

Bryce Dunham Crossword 2025-04-29

Bryce Dunham Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. flow a fast moving current of hot gas and volcano matter
  2. tectonics crustal plates that move and collide on the astenosphere
  3. largest part of land above sea level
  4. when something is worn away by natural elements
  5. chemical and mechanical systems that move rock that decompose
  6. a vent in the Earths crust
  7. between crust and core
  8. a super continent
  9. all physical forms of land
  10. a landslide of wet volcanic debris
  11. inactive or alseep
  12. molten rock
  13. heat driven cycles that occur in the ocean air, etc
  14. when plates shift
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  1. drift when continents move on their plates
  2. new crust when plate diverge
  3. a layer of spinning metal in the Earths inner layer
  4. extensive chain of mountains
  5. SSliding boundary between Pacific and NA plates
  6. S.A. Africa Arabia Australia and Antarctica combined
  7. molten material
  8. core intermost layer of the Earth
  9. north American and Europe together
  10. he was a geologists
  11. outer layer of the earth

25 Clues: molten rock • molten material • a super continent • when plates shift • inactive or alseep • he was a geologists • between crust and core • outer layer of the earth • a vent in the Earths crust • all physical forms of land • new crust when plate diverge • extensive chain of mountains • core intermost layer of the Earth • a landslide of wet volcanic debris • ...

Grecia T. 2022-04-29

Grecia T. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Drift
  2. tectonics is a theory demonstrating the structure of our planets crust, and many other phenomena. It moves slowly over the mantle.
  3. drift used to be a theory that explanation the continents shifting position on the earths surface.
  4. into different directions, dividing each other.
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  1. sideway and downward movements the edge of a plate on the earths crust into a mantle under another plate.
  2. is also a sediment rock, made by water or air
  3. is a matter that settles on the bottom of a sort of liquid.
  4. is something coming closer all together.
  5. is is a rock that is solidified by lava or magma.
  6. is a rock that transforms by heat, pressure, and other natural causes.
  7. a dramatic change in shape, appearance, personality, etc.
  8. tectonics

12 Clues: Drift • tectonics • is something coming closer all together. • is also a sediment rock, made by water or air • into different directions, dividing each other. • is is a rock that is solidified by lava or magma. • a dramatic change in shape, appearance, personality, etc. • is a matter that settles on the bottom of a sort of liquid. • ...

Earthquakes and Plate tectonics 2022-06-02

Earthquakes and Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. squeezes and pulls apart rocks
  2. Transverse waves
  3. plates move away from each other
  4. a bed in layers of rock
  5. ground shaking
  6. old oceanic plates sink
  7. the location above the focus
  8. Vibrations during an earthquake
  9. creation of new oceanic crust
  10. where a earthquake starts
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  1. chain of underwater mountains
  2. plates slide past each other
  3. device that detects seismic waves
  4. develop upon reaching the surface
  5. a depression in the ocean floor
  6. plates move towards each other
  7. rocks move along this break
  8. theory that the crust is moving
  9. Compression waves

19 Clues: ground shaking • Transverse waves • Compression waves • a bed in layers of rock • old oceanic plates sink • where a earthquake starts • rocks move along this break • plates slide past each other • the location above the focus • chain of underwater mountains • creation of new oceanic crust • squeezes and pulls apart rocks • plates move towards each other • a depression in the ocean floor • ...

Chapter 7 Vocab 2021-10-12

Chapter 7 Vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. A transform fault or transform boundary, sometimes called a strike-slip boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly where it connects to another plate boundary, either another transform, a spreading ridge, or a subduction zone
  2. A geomagnetic reversal is a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged.
  3. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  4. all the continents that were once part of a super continent
  5. A convergent boundary is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide. One plate eventually slides beneath the other, a process known as subduction. The subduction zone can be defined by a plane where many earthquakes occur, called the Wadati–Benioff zone
  6. the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
  7. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  8. Reverse Polarity is when a receptacle is wired backward. This happens when the “hot” wire, also known as the black or red wire, is wired on the neutral side and the neutral wire is wired on the “hot” side. Looking at the featured image above, the outlet tester shows exactly this.
  9. A natural remanent magnetization closely parallel to the present ambient geomagnetic field direction. (b) A configuration of the Earth's magnetic field with the magnetic negative pole, where field lines enter the Earth, located near the geographic south pole.
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  1. a long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading. An example is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
  2. In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. Divergent boundaries within continents initially produce rifts, which eventually become rift valleys.
  3. Ridge push or sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphere below mid-ocean ridges
  4. he movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat.
  5. 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.
  6. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
  7. Slab pull is that part of the motion of a tectonic plate caused by its subduction. In 1975 Forsyth and Uyeda used the inverse theory method to show that

16 Clues: all the continents that were once part of a super continent • the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time. • the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate. • ...

Geography Crossword 2013-05-28

Geography Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ocean the other main fishing region
  2. Agriculture is the industry
  3. Rock layers between two cracks in the earths crust cause this
  4. this is where the crust is the most thinnest
  5. Official government agreement between the federal government and aboriginal people
  6. Heat from the inside of the earth is responsible for all of this
  7. One of the two main fishing regions
  8. Forestry is the industry
  9. Fishery is the industry
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  1. Rock layers fold at the front of the plate and create this
  2. When magma escapes above the earth's crust this is caused
  3. The theory of plate tectonics is what devolved the answer in 1960's
  4. Mining is the industry
  5. This occurs when two plates converge and rub side by side
  6. a metaphor for people in a diverse area

15 Clues: Mining is the industry • Fishery is the industry • Forestry is the industry • Agriculture is the industry • ocean the other main fishing region • One of the two main fishing regions • a metaphor for people in a diverse area • this is where the crust is the most thinnest • When magma escapes above the earth's crust this is caused • ...

chapter seven 2021-10-22

chapter seven crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
  2. Two plates sliding past each other convergent/plate-boundary two or more lithospheric plates collide subduction
  3. is a continent that split
  4. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
  5. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
Down
  1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. is the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time
  3. is the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
  4. state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects
  5. lithosphere comprises a number of plates
  6. the pulling force exerted by a cold, dense oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
  7. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading
  8. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise
  9. sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion

15 Clues: is a continent that split • lithosphere comprises a number of plates • two tectonic plates move away from each other • sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion • rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. • ...

chapter seven 2021-10-22

chapter seven crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
  2. Two plates sliding past each other convergent/plate-boundary two or more lithospheric plates collide subduction
  3. is a continent that split
  4. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
  5. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
Down
  1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. is the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time
  3. is the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
  4. state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects
  5. lithosphere comprises a number of plates
  6. the pulling force exerted by a cold, dense oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
  7. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading
  8. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise
  9. sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion

15 Clues: is a continent that split • lithosphere comprises a number of plates • two tectonic plates move away from each other • sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion • rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. • ...

Tectonic Processes 2013-10-08

Tectonic Processes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An example of the result of a continental-continental collision margin
  2. This is a country where you will find shield volcanoes
  3. The element, along with Iron, makes up in the Inner and Outer Core
  4. An example of a Stratovolcano
  5. This planet also has active plate tectonics
  6. This plate partially melts durins subduction
  7. 4.5 of these equal the age of the Earth
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  1. Another name for a Stratovolcano
  2. A seismic tremour
  3. The result of an oceanic-oceanic destructive collision margin
  4. What the continental crust is mostly made from
  5. This layer of the Earth is solid although some think it is liquid
  6. A large wave created by tectonic activity or asteroids
  7. What the oceanic crust is mostly made from

14 Clues: A seismic tremour • An example of a Stratovolcano • Another name for a Stratovolcano • 4.5 of these equal the age of the Earth • What the oceanic crust is mostly made from • This planet also has active plate tectonics • This plate partially melts durins subduction • What the continental crust is mostly made from • This is a country where you will find shield volcanoes • ...

chapter seven 2021-10-22

chapter seven crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
  2. Two plates sliding past each other convergent/plate-boundary two or more lithospheric plates collide subduction
  3. is a continent that split
  4. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
  5. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
Down
  1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. is the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time
  3. is the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
  4. state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects
  5. lithosphere comprises a number of plates
  6. the pulling force exerted by a cold, dense oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
  7. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading
  8. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise
  9. sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion

15 Clues: is a continent that split • lithosphere comprises a number of plates • two tectonic plates move away from each other • sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion • rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. • ...

Layers of the Earth 2025-10-17

Layers of the Earth crossword puzzle
Across
  1. of solid iron
  2. currents Process that occurs in the mantle. This is the engine that causes hotter magma to rise and sink when it cools.
  3. core Layer of the Earth above the Inner Core. Made of liquid metal
  4. Crust Part of the crust that made up of rocks that form continents. This is where you live.
  5. Layer of the Earth above the Outer Core. Location where Convection currents Occur
  6. Boundary that causes plates to collide
  7. Boundary that causes plates to slide
  8. Layer of the Earth above the Mantle. Made of oceans and continents. Layer with the least pressure, temperature and density.
  9. Supercontinent
  10. Pieces of the crust
Down
  1. Crust Part of the crust made out of rocks that forms the ocean floors.
  2. Boundary that causes plates to spread apart
  3. Drift Theory that the landmasses move apart.
  4. core Layer of the Earth that has the greatest temperature, pressure and density.
  5. Spreading Geologic event that occurs when magma rises causing seafloor to spread. This is a divergent boundary.
  6. Deformation
  7. Landmasses
  8. Tectonics Theory that pieces of the crust are deformed from the convection currents in the mantle.

18 Clues: Landmasses • Deformation • of solid iron • Supercontinent • Pieces of the crust • Boundary that causes plates to slide • Boundary that causes plates to collide • Boundary that causes plates to spread apart • Drift Theory that the landmasses move apart. • core Layer of the Earth above the Inner Core. Made of liquid metal • ...

GR1AFET: Plate Tectonics 2025-04-16

GR1AFET: Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Evidence for continental drift includes the puzzle-like fit of this continent with South America.
  2. Rocks that form from the accumulation and compression of sediments.
  3. This type of rock forms when magma cools and solidifies.
  4. This type of rock forms under heat and pressure but does not melt.
  5. The continuous process of rock formation, change, and recycling.
  6. The theory explaining the movement of Earth's plates and the resulting geological activity.
Down
  1. This layer of the Earth is broken into tectonic plates.
  2. A type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  3. When two plates slide past each other, this boundary is formed.
  4. The supercontinent that once existed before breaking into current continents.
  5. The process where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by wind, water, or ice.
  6. A region where plates move toward each other, often forming mountains or trenches.
  7. This scientist proposed the idea of continental drift.

13 Clues: This scientist proposed the idea of continental drift. • This layer of the Earth is broken into tectonic plates. • This type of rock forms when magma cools and solidifies. • When two plates slide past each other, this boundary is formed. • The continuous process of rock formation, change, and recycling. • ...

Plate Tectonics & Seafloor 2022-02-14

Plate Tectonics & Seafloor crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Evidence used to support continental drift
  2. Evidence of past species or life
  3. Where old crust is recycled
  4. Reaction from two tectonic plates moving
  5. Developed the idea of seafloor spreading
  6. Outer layer of the Earth
  7. Developed the idea of Continental Drift
Down
  1. Hot molten rock in the mantle
  2. Layer beneath the crust
  3. Moving away from each other
  4. Moving toward each other
  5. Where hot magma comes up to create new crust
  6. When one plate moves below another plate

13 Clues: Layer beneath the crust • Moving toward each other • Outer layer of the Earth • Moving away from each other • Where old crust is recycled • Hot molten rock in the mantle • Evidence of past species or life • Developed the idea of Continental Drift • Reaction from two tectonic plates moving • Developed the idea of seafloor spreading • When one plate moves below another plate • ...

Earthquakes 2013-05-13

Earthquakes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. what movement changes the course of a river
  2. when sandy soil collapses after an earthquake, it is called?
  3. another term for plate tectonics
  4. when two plates continuously rub against each other, what is released?
  5. what fault line is the Southern Alps on
  6. when two plates collide
  7. an EQ can cause this natural event
  8. what is caused by a natural process
  9. what is a sequence of events called
Down
  1. centre of the Earth
  2. when all the continents were one it was called?
  3. the middle layer of the Earth
  4. ridges when two plates move apart from each other
  5. the outer layer of the Earth surface
  6. the result of a natural process beyond the control of people
  7. the point the seismic waves first reach the Earth's surface
  8. measures the strength of an earthquake
  9. when on plate moves underneath another
  10. cracks in the land
  11. The ________ Mercalli scale measure the intensity of an EQ
  12. when the land moves upwards this movement is called?
  13. another word for flooding

22 Clues: cracks in the land • centre of the Earth • when two plates collide • another word for flooding • the middle layer of the Earth • another term for plate tectonics • an EQ can cause this natural event • what is caused by a natural process • what is a sequence of events called • the outer layer of the Earth surface • measures the strength of an earthquake • ...

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade 2022-10-27

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade crossword puzzle
Across
  1. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together
  2. - The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 millions years ago and gave rise to today’s continents.
  3. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  4. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  5. tectonics - The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by conventional currents in the mantle.
  6. spreading - The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  7. ridge - An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary under the ocean
Down
  1. drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface.
  2. trench - A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantel
  3. - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
  4. - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move
  5. - The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantel at a convergent plate boundary
  6. boundary - A valley that forms where plates spread apart at spreading boundaries
  7. - A section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust

14 Clues: boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together • - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move • boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past. • drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface. • ...

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade 2022-10-27

Science Lesson Plan 8th Grade crossword puzzle
Across
  1. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together
  2. - The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 millions years ago and gave rise to today’s continents.
  3. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  4. boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  5. tectonics - The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by conventional currents in the mantle.
  6. spreading - The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  7. ridge - An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary under the ocean
Down
  1. drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface.
  2. trench - A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantel
  3. - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
  4. - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move
  5. - The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantel at a convergent plate boundary
  6. boundary - A valley that forms where plates spread apart at spreading boundaries
  7. - A section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust

14 Clues: boundary - A plate boundary where two plates come together • - A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move • boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • - The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past. • drift - The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface. • ...

The Earth 2022-10-26

The Earth crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the ocean floor.
  2. mostly made of iron.
  3. The thinnest layer of the earth.
  4. Convection currents in the _____ drive plate tectonics.
  5. rigid, rocky outer layer of the Earth.
  6. has a liquid part and a solid part.
Down
  1. is about 4000-5000 degrees Celsius.
  2. between the thermosphere and the stratosphere.
  3. puddy like.
  4. makes up our continents.

10 Clues: puddy like. • the ocean floor. • mostly made of iron. • makes up our continents. • The thinnest layer of the earth. • is about 4000-5000 degrees Celsius. • has a liquid part and a solid part. • rigid, rocky outer layer of the Earth. • between the thermosphere and the stratosphere. • Convection currents in the _____ drive plate tectonics.

tectonic puzzle 2022-02-08

tectonic puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate slides under the other
  2. created by convergent plates
  3. When two plates come together
  4. caused by divergent plates
  5. Valley Created from sea-floor spreading
Down
  1. Are created when two plates come together
  2. When two plates slide pass each other
  3. Hot lava
  4. When two plates move apart
  5. Cause tectonics plates to move

10 Clues: Hot lava • When two plates move apart • caused by divergent plates • created by convergent plates • When two plates come together • Cause tectonics plates to move • When two plates slide pass each other • when one plate slides under the other • Valley Created from sea-floor spreading • Are created when two plates come together

chapter seven 2021-10-22

chapter seven crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
  2. Two plates sliding past each other convergent/plate-boundary two or more lithospheric plates collide subduction
  3. is a continent that split
  4. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
  5. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
Down
  1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. is the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time
  3. is the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
  4. state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects
  5. lithosphere comprises a number of plates
  6. the pulling force exerted by a cold, dense oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
  7. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading
  8. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise
  9. sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion

15 Clues: is a continent that split • lithosphere comprises a number of plates • two tectonic plates move away from each other • sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion • rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. • ...

chapter seven 2021-10-22

chapter seven crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
  2. Two plates sliding past each other convergent/plate-boundary two or more lithospheric plates collide subduction
  3. is a continent that split
  4. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
  5. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
Down
  1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. is the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time
  3. is the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
  4. state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects
  5. lithosphere comprises a number of plates
  6. the pulling force exerted by a cold, dense oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
  7. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading
  8. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise
  9. sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion

15 Clues: is a continent that split • lithosphere comprises a number of plates • two tectonic plates move away from each other • sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion • rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. • ...

tectonic puzzle 2022-02-08

tectonic puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate slides under the other
  2. created by convergent plates
  3. When two plates come together
  4. caused by divergent plates
  5. Valley Created from sea-floor spreading
Down
  1. Are created when two plates come together
  2. When two plates slide pass each other
  3. Hot lava
  4. When two plates move apart
  5. Cause tectonics plates to move

10 Clues: Hot lava • When two plates move apart • caused by divergent plates • created by convergent plates • When two plates come together • Cause tectonics plates to move • When two plates slide pass each other • when one plate slides under the other • Valley Created from sea-floor spreading • Are created when two plates come together

tectonic puzzle 2022-02-08

tectonic puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate slides under the other
  2. created by convergent plates
  3. When two plates come together
  4. caused by divergent plates
  5. Valley Created from sea-floor spreading
Down
  1. Are created when two plates come together
  2. When two plates slide pass each other
  3. Hot lava
  4. When two plates move apart
  5. Cause tectonics plates to move

10 Clues: Hot lava • When two plates move apart • caused by divergent plates • created by convergent plates • When two plates come together • Cause tectonics plates to move • When two plates slide pass each other • when one plate slides under the other • Valley Created from sea-floor spreading • Are created when two plates come together

tectonic puzzle 2022-02-08

tectonic puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate slides under the other
  2. created by convergent plates
  3. When two plates come together
  4. caused by divergent plates
  5. Valley Created from sea-floor spreading
Down
  1. Are created when two plates come together
  2. When two plates slide pass each other
  3. Hot lava
  4. When two plates move apart
  5. Cause tectonics plates to move

10 Clues: Hot lava • When two plates move apart • caused by divergent plates • created by convergent plates • When two plates come together • Cause tectonics plates to move • When two plates slide pass each other • when one plate slides under the other • Valley Created from sea-floor spreading • Are created when two plates come together

geopraphy 2016-12-14

geopraphy crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 2 plates past each other
  2. 2 plates move up against each other
Down
  1. a area whit a lot of plate tectonics
  2. 2 plate move away from each other
  3. a solid rock inside the core
  4. plate plates that move past each other

6 Clues: 2 plates past each other • a solid rock inside the core • 2 plate move away from each other • 2 plates move up against each other • a area whit a lot of plate tectonics • plate plates that move past each other

Plate Tectonics Crossword 2021-04-16

Plate Tectonics Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The solid, outer part of the earth
  2. Super continent with every landmass
  3. When one plate descends below another
  4. The outermost layer of the earth
  5. Long, narrow depressions on the seafloor
  6. Land form that rises above its surroundings
  7. A violent shaking of the ground
  8. Hot dense ball made of mostly iron
Down
  1. Hot area in the mantle
  2. A fracture in the rock
  3. A layer made of fluid
  4. The thickest layer of the earth
  5. A mountain that releases gases and rock

13 Clues: A layer made of fluid • Hot area in the mantle • A fracture in the rock • The thickest layer of the earth • A violent shaking of the ground • The outermost layer of the earth • The solid, outer part of the earth • Hot dense ball made of mostly iron • Super continent with every landmass • When one plate descends below another • A mountain that releases gases and rock • ...

Plate Tectonics Vocab 2018-09-17

Plate Tectonics Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the theory that the Earth’s surface is made up of giant, moving slabs of lithosphere, made of both oceanic and continental slabs.
  2. a plate boundary in which plates move past one another in opposite directions.
  3. the study of changes in Earth's magnetic field, as shown by patterns of magnetism in rocks that have formed over time
  4. when a plate slides under another plate as it more dense than the plate above, occurs at convergent boundaries.
  5. the process by which new oceanic crust forms as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies, occur at mid-ocean ridges.
  6. a valley created at a divergent boundary where plates are spreading apart.
Down
  1. a plate boundary in which plates move towards one another.
  2. deep underwater depressions created by one plate subducting under another plate at a convergent plate boundary.
  3. a single land mass, or supercontinent, that existed from about 350 to 200 million years ago.
  4. An area far from a plate boundary in which magma rises from deep within Earth through the lithosphere to reach the ocean floor.
  5. a plate boundary in which plates move away from one another.
  6. an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced at a divergent plate boundary, also includes underwater volcanoes.
  7. the idea that continents were once joined in a single landmass that eventually broke apart into pieces that slowly moved away from each other

13 Clues: a plate boundary in which plates move towards one another. • a plate boundary in which plates move away from one another. • a valley created at a divergent boundary where plates are spreading apart. • a plate boundary in which plates move past one another in opposite directions. • ...

Plate Tectonics Vocab 2018-09-17

Plate Tectonics Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced at a divergent plate boundary, also includes underwater volcanoes.
  2. the theory that the Earth’s surface is made up of giant, moving slabs of lithosphere, made of both oceanic and continental slabs.
  3. deep underwater depressions created by one plate subducting under another plate at a convergent plate boundary.
  4. a plate boundary in which plates move towards one another.
  5. the study of changes in Earth's magnetic field, as shown by patterns of magnetism in rocks that have formed over time
  6. the process by which new oceanic crust forms as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies, occur at mid-ocean ridges.
Down
  1. a valley created at a divergent boundary where plates are spreading apart.
  2. a single land mass, or supercontinent, that existed from about 350 to 200 million years ago.
  3. a plate boundary in which plates move past one another in opposite directions.
  4. the idea that continents were once joined in a single landmass that eventually broke apart into pieces that slowly moved away from each other
  5. a plate boundary in which plates move away from one another.
  6. when a plate slides under another plate as it more dense than the plate above, occurs at convergent boundaries.
  7. an area far from a plate boundary in which magma rises from deep within Earth through the lithosphere to reach the ocean floor.

13 Clues: a plate boundary in which plates move towards one another. • a plate boundary in which plates move away from one another. • a valley created at a divergent boundary where plates are spreading apart. • a plate boundary in which plates move past one another in opposite directions. • ...

EARTH LAYERS 2022-02-21

EARTH LAYERS crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earths pimples
  2. slides past each other
  3. part of the crust
  4. moves away from each other
  5. moves toward each other
Down
  1. outer part of earths crust
  2. upper layer of the mantle
  3. pieces of Earth that move

8 Clues: Earths pimples • part of the crust • slides past each other • moves toward each other • upper layer of the mantle • pieces of Earth that move • outer part of earths crust • moves away from each other

Plate Tectonics CW 1 2022-09-20

Plate Tectonics CW 1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. All the oceans, rivers, lakes and water on Earth. It comes from the word “Hydro” which means “water.”
  2. Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
  3. The outer most layer of the Earth. This is the layer we walk on.
  4. a theory that proposes that magma under Earth’s crust is forced up toward the surface at the mid-ocean ridges, forming new seafloor
  5. A solid form of carbon dioxide that is very cold and turns directly from a solid to a gas.
  6. Wegener’s hypothesis that all continents were once connected in a large landmass that broke apart & drifted slowly to their current positions
  7. large, slow moving bodies of ice on land
  8. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.
  9. When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed.
  10. melted rock
  11. A scientist who studies earthquakes.
  12. To reuse something that would have otherwise been thrown out or to turn it into something usable again instead of sending it to a landfill.
  13. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.
  14. the layer below the lithosphere and is plasticlike
  15. All the living things on Earth. It comes from the word “Bio” which means “life.”
Down
  1. a cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking
  2. When one tectonic plate converges under another due to density differences.
  3. All the rock, soil and sediments that makeup Earth’s land. It comes from the word “Geo” which means “Earth.”
  4. Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust.
  5. a chain of ridges and valleys stretching along Earth’s ocean floor
  6. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.
  7. pull-apart forces
  8. a single landmass composed of all the continents joined together
  9. this layer is formed with the crust and rigid upper mantle, and is above the asthenosphere
  10. All the gases surrounding the earth. It comes from the word “Atmos” which means “air.”
  11. the process of moving things from one place to another.
  12. large sections of Earth’s crust and upper mantle

27 Clues: melted rock • pull-apart forces • A scientist who studies earthquakes. • Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust. • large, slow moving bodies of ice on land • a cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking • large sections of Earth’s crust and upper mantle • the layer below the lithosphere and is plasticlike • the process of moving things from one place to another. • ...

Plate Tectonics - Science 10 2022-10-09

Plate Tectonics - Science 10 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ______ CRUST IS THICK BUT LESS DENSE AND IS NOT COVERED WITH WATER
  2. This type of plate boundary has resulted from the collision of plates
  3. the highest peak in the Philippines
  4. refers to a deep part of the ocean and is caused by a convergence of plates
  5. __________ boundary happens when plates move apart from each other causing to a formation of new crust
  6. the Himalayas mountain range was formed by the convergence of eurasian and ___________ plates
  7. ___________ process where a denser plate moves beneath/under a less dense plate
  8. Oceanic __________ is also referred to as underwater mountain ranges and is caused by the divergence of plates
  9. the longest mountain range in the philippines spanning for over 540 kilometers
  10. a lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart,
  11. the ductile and viscous later of the earth just below the lithosphere, including the upper mantle
Down
  1. THE SUPER CONTINENT FORMED
  2. THE VIBRATION OF EARTH DUE TO THE RAPID RELEASE OF ENERGY
  3. CONSISTS OF THE CRUST AND THE UPPER MANTLE
  4. Mt. _____________ is the highest elevation on earth and is part of the Himalayas Mountain Range
  5. ___________ zone is formed when two continental plates converge forming mountain ranges
  6. __________ method is used to locate the epicenter of an earthquake using distance information from at least three seismic stations
  7. _______ CRUST IS THIN BUT DENSE AND IS COVERED WITH WATER
  8. __________ fault boundary happens when plates slide or grind past each other without diverging or converging
  9. REFERS TO THE SLOW AND CONSTANT MOVEMENT OF THE PLATES
  10. OUTER LAYER OF THE EARTH

21 Clues: OUTER LAYER OF THE EARTH • THE SUPER CONTINENT FORMED • the highest peak in the Philippines • CONSISTS OF THE CRUST AND THE UPPER MANTLE • REFERS TO THE SLOW AND CONSTANT MOVEMENT OF THE PLATES • THE VIBRATION OF EARTH DUE TO THE RAPID RELEASE OF ENERGY • _______ CRUST IS THIN BUT DENSE AND IS COVERED WITH WATER • ...

Plate Tectonics by Tadhg 2020-06-01

Plate Tectonics by Tadhg crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the rigid outer part of the earth
  2. the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake
  3. a mountain or hill in which lava or hot fragments of rock erupt from
  4. the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth
  5. another name for core
  6. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate
  7. an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes
  8. a thin layer of gases that surrounds the Earth
  9. the outermost shell of earth
  10. he solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets
  11. the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere
  12. the layer just beneath the crust
  13. the centre of the earth
  14. hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure
  15. the branch of physics that deals with the deformation and flow of matter
  16. relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust
  17. a sudden violent shaking of the ground
  18. the branch of science concerned with earthquakes
  19. a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault
  20. a volcano that will no longer erupt
Down
  1. the person who came up with the Pangea theory
  2. the science which deals with the physical structure and substance of the earth
  3. a smaller earthquake following the main shock of a large earthquake
  4. the great size or extent of something
  5. hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust
  6. continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it
  7. a dark fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes displays a columnar structure
  8. the outermost layer that we live on
  9. a slight earthquake
  10. the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface
  11. a volcano that hasn't erupted in a long time but is set to erupt in the future
  12. a large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level
  13. large-scale processes affecting the structure of the earth's crust
  14. wave, an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means
  15. the planet we live on
  16. the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined
  17. the powdery residue left after the burning of a substance
  18. the region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core
  19. a sharp change of pressure in a narrow region travelling through a medium
  20. the mass of a substance per unit volume

40 Clues: a slight earthquake • another name for core • the planet we live on • the centre of the earth • the outermost shell of earth • the layer just beneath the crust • the rigid outer part of the earth • the outermost layer that we live on • a volcano that will no longer erupt • the great size or extent of something • a sudden violent shaking of the ground • ...

Plate Tectonics Vocab Crossword 2021-04-14

Plate Tectonics Vocab Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's outermost layer
  2. current a current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid
  3. Ridge divergent boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
  4. plate boundary forms where two plates slide past each other
  5. the shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface
  6. crust a solid, thin outermost layer of Earth
  7. the layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core
  8. spreading the process that creates new sea floor as plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridges
  9. plate boundary where two plates are moving apart, magma comes up to create new crust
  10. spot a volcanically active area of Earth's surface far from a tectonic plate boundary
  11. the supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago
  12. plate boundary an area where plates move toward one another and collide
  13. crust thinner, more dense, younger crust making ocean floor
  14. core a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth
Down
  1. one plate going under another plate
  2. drift the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
  3. plates large movable plates under the Earth's surface.
  4. the solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
  5. core a layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth
  6. a weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
  7. a crack in the earth's crust
  8. valley a valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates
  9. extremely deep areas in the ocean that are created by a subducting plate
  10. the soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats
  11. a landform with high elevation and high relief and formed by movement of the tectonic plates in the Earth's crust

25 Clues: Earth's outermost layer • a crack in the earth's crust • one plate going under another plate • crust a solid, thin outermost layer of Earth • plate boundary forms where two plates slide past each other • plates large movable plates under the Earth's surface. • a weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface • ...

Plate Tectonics Test Review 2023-03-15

Plate Tectonics Test Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ____________ crust is thin and dense.
  2. The broad gently sloping volcano that mostly nonexplosive.
  3. The metamorphic rock that limestone turns into.
  4. All are inorganic, solid, natural, crystalline, and have chemical composition.
  5. The boundary type where plates come together.
  6. Stress at a strike slip fault
  7. Where convection currents move the plates.
  8. Process where crust is destroyed.
  9. Has pea sized tephra fragments piled around a vent.
  10. The circle of active volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.
  11. ________ is an organic sedimentary rock used for energy production.
  12. The metamorphic rock that sandstone turns into.
  13. Stress at a normal fault.
  14. Common example of strike slip (side by side) plate motion at the surface.
  15. Seconds that separate P and S waves if you are 400km from epicenter (use chart on back of notes).
  16. The number of half lives that have occured if 1/16 parent isotope remains.
  17. The rock type that can contain fossils.
  18. Way s waves move relative to the direction of motion.
Down
  1. Point where an earthquake originates below the surface.
  2. Steep sided with alternating layers of tephra and magma.
  3. Densest layer over 12g/mL.
  4. The boundary type at the mid ocean ridge.
  5. Stress at a reverse fault.
  6. fool's gold mineral name
  7. ______ rocks are classified as intrusive or extrusive.
  8. The Metamorphic rock that shale turns into.
  9. __________ rocks have small grains because they have cool quickly on the surface.
  10. Rocks are classified into 3 groups based on their ______ (how they formed).
  11. The type of mining that has the LEAST impact on the environment (of the surface).
  12. Color of mineral powder when rubbed on rough surface.
  13. A visual inspection of a mineral described as metallic or nonmetallic.
  14. The boundary that never has volcanoes.
  15. If a mineral scratches calcite with a hardness of 3, but is scratched by apatite with a hardness of 5...what is the mineral hardness.
  16. Country found at the top of the mid ocean ridge.

34 Clues: fool's gold mineral name • Stress at a normal fault. • Densest layer over 12g/mL. • Stress at a reverse fault. • Stress at a strike slip fault • Process where crust is destroyed. • ____________ crust is thin and dense. • The boundary that never has volcanoes. • The rock type that can contain fossils. • The boundary type at the mid ocean ridge. • ...

Chapter 14 - Plate Tectonics 2023-04-28

Chapter 14 - Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. event in which the magnetic field reverses direction
  2. hypothesis that continents are in constant motion
  3. naturally preserved remains, imprints, or traces of organisms
  4. plate boundary where two plates separate
  5. new oceanic crust forms at a mid-ocean ridge as old oceanic crust moves away
  6. Wegener could not explain the ___________ that caused the continents to move.
  7. plate boundary where two plates collide
  8. mountain range located on the seafloor in the middle of the ocean
  9. plate boundary where two plates slide by each other
  10. force created by rising mantle of ocean ridges that creates potential for plates to move away from the ridge
Down
  1. ancient supercontinent, composed of land that forms today’s continents
  2. polarity of magnetic field in which magnets orient themselves to point south
  3. sinking of a denser plate below a more buoyant plate at a convergent plate boundary
  4. cold, rigid outermost rock layer of Earth
  5. middle layer of Earth situated between the crust above and the core below
  6. Alfred Wegener proposed that at one time all the continents were part of one large __________.
  7. Continental drift is the slow ___________ of Earth’s continental plates.
  8. polarity of today’s magnetic field; magnets orient themselves to point north
  9. circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density
  10. capable of being molded or changing shape
  11. theory that Earth’s surface is made of rock plates that move with respect to each other
  12. Wegener noticed that the shapes of the coastlines of the continents fit together much like pieces of a ___________.
  13. Evidence of __________ in places that are now warm supported Wegener's hypothesis.
  14. The farther away rocks are from the mid- ocean ridge, the _________ they are.
  15. force created by sinking of a plate, or slab, that pulls on the rest of the plate

25 Clues: plate boundary where two plates collide • plate boundary where two plates separate • cold, rigid outermost rock layer of Earth • capable of being molded or changing shape • hypothesis that continents are in constant motion • plate boundary where two plates slide by each other • event in which the magnetic field reverses direction • ...

River's Plate tectonics crossword 2012-12-03

River's Plate tectonics crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. trench long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust
  2. merging
  3. the crust and upper mantel of the earth
  4. upper layer of earth's mantel
  5. limit
  6. the strength and vitality required for sustaining physical or mental activity
  7. to change in form, appearance of structure
  8. vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals
  9. core solid sphere in the middle of the fluid core such as the iron-nickel core of the Earth
  10. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense to rise
  11. hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or surface
  12. ocean ridge long mountain range on the ocean floor
  13. rising or falling, increasing or decreasing, according to a standard or to a set of conditions
Down
  1. boundary is the place where two plates meet
  2. crust that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
  3. sea trench hemispheric-scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor
  4. a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
  5. a large natural elevation of the earths surface
  6. hit with force
  7. valley sub sea chasm extending along the crest of a mid-ocean ridge, locus of the magma upwelling that accompany seafloor spreading

20 Clues: limit • merging • hit with force • upper layer of earth's mantel • the crust and upper mantel of the earth • to change in form, appearance of structure • boundary is the place where two plates meet • a large natural elevation of the earths surface • ocean ridge long mountain range on the ocean floor • a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust • ...

Geology and Plate Tectonics 2012-12-16

Geology and Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Type of crust that is made up of granite.
  2. The result of the continental and oceanic crusts meeting.
  3. What is inside the mantle.
  4. Where the tectonic plates are located.
  5. The pulling apart of the sea floor at the ridge.
  6. Two plates sliding side-by-side.
  7. Where new rocks form from rising magma.
  8. ________ created the first proposed rock cycle.
  9. The dividing or pulling apart of plates.
  10. Type of crust that is made up of basalt.
Down
  1. A new form of technology that bounced sound waves off of the ocean floor.
  2. What is outside of the mantle.
  3. The force that derives plate movement.
  4. The coming or pushing together of plates.
  5. Discovered the process called sea-floor spreading.
  6. The supercontinent that was theorized by Alfred Wegener.
  7. An area where a lot of subduction activity occurs.
  8. The study of the Earth and the forces that change the shape of the Earth.
  9. The process of one plate sliding below the other.
  10. A well researched idea or thought that has not been proven a fact.

20 Clues: What is inside the mantle. • What is outside of the mantle. • Two plates sliding side-by-side. • The force that derives plate movement. • Where the tectonic plates are located. • Where new rocks form from rising magma. • The dividing or pulling apart of plates. • Type of crust that is made up of basalt. • Type of crust that is made up of granite. • ...

Plate tectonics, Earthquakes & Volcanoes! 2013-05-29

Plate tectonics, Earthquakes & Volcanoes! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A ring like area where there are a lot of volcanoes is the called the ring of
  2. One of the huge sections which make up the Earth's crust
  3. When one play goes underneath another
  4. Islands chains can be made from ... volcanoes
  5. The theory that the continents where all one land mass
  6. The point where an earthquakes power is released from is the ep
  7. Two plates moving towards each other
  8. Molten rock
  9. An earthquake which occurs after the initial shock
  10. The layer of rock that lies between the crust and the outer core of the Earth
Down
  1. Plates that move away from each other are
  2. The cycle of heat inside the earth
  3. Two plates moving past each other
  4. line An area where earthquakes are likely to happen are called f
  5. An event that shakes the ground causing damage
  6. Earthquakes are described by the theory of plate
  7. An underwater mountain system could be called a mid-ocean
  8. Outer layer of the earth
  9. A measurement of the strength of an earthquake
  10. Comes out of volcanoes, super hot

20 Clues: Molten rock • Outer layer of the earth • Two plates moving past each other • Comes out of volcanoes, super hot • The cycle of heat inside the earth • Two plates moving towards each other • When one play goes underneath another • Plates that move away from each other are • Islands chains can be made from ... volcanoes • An event that shakes the ground causing damage • ...

Plate Tectonics and Geology 2013-02-15

Plate Tectonics and Geology crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A single landmass on Earth about 300 million years ago
  2. A German scientist that proposed the theory of continental drift
  3. The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle
  4. A dense ball of solid metal.
  5. Breaks in Earths crust where rocks have slipped past each other
  6. A layer of molten metal surrounding the inner core
  7. Heat transfer between materials that are touching
  8. A group of parts that work together as a whole
  9. The parts of Earth where that contain living organisms make this up
Down
  1. Results from a force pressing on an area
  2. Has three main parts: a metal core, a solid middle layer, and a rocky outer layer
  3. Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
  4. Contains all of Earths water
  5. The layer of rock that forms that Earths outer skin
  6. A dark, fine-grained rock
  7. Heat transfer by the movement of a fluid
  8. A layer of hot rock
  9. The Earths outermost layer
  10. Transfer of energy that is carried in rays
  11. The ability to do work

20 Clues: A layer of hot rock • The ability to do work • A dark, fine-grained rock • The Earths outermost layer • Contains all of Earths water • A dense ball of solid metal. • Results from a force pressing on an area • Heat transfer by the movement of a fluid • Transfer of energy that is carried in rays • A group of parts that work together as a whole • ...

chapter 10 plate tectonics 2013-10-31

chapter 10 plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. contain large areas of stable rock
  2. boundary boundary in which two plates slide past each other horizontally
  3. single large ocean that covered earths surface during the time the supercontinent
  4. cycle form an break apart over time
  5. the study of magnetic properties of rock
  6. boundary 2 plates move away from each other
  7. drift a germen scientist names Alfred Wegener proposed a hypothesis
  8. terranes may be small volcanic or underwater valcaones
  9. rigid upper part of the mantle form a layer of earth
  10. process in which continents break apart
  11. ridge undersea mountain range through the center of which run steep, narrow valleys
Down
  1. exposed at earths surface
  2. boundaries plate boundaries that form where 2 plate collide
  3. piece of lithosphere that has a unique geologic history that differs from the history of the surrounding lithosphere
  4. continents arranged into large landmasses
  5. layer of plastic rock just below the lithosphere
  6. terrane becomes part of a continent
  7. form on top of seamounts
  8. formed over 30 million years ago
  9. spreading new ocean floor forms when magma rises to earths surface and solidifies at a mid ocean ridge

20 Clues: form on top of seamounts • exposed at earths surface • formed over 30 million years ago • contain large areas of stable rock • cycle form an break apart over time • terrane becomes part of a continent • process in which continents break apart • the study of magnetic properties of rock • continents arranged into large landmasses • boundary 2 plates move away from each other • ...

PLATE TECTONICS, VOLCANOES, EARTHQUAKES 2014-03-21

PLATE TECTONICS, VOLCANOES, EARTHQUAKES crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Magma may form when this is added to hot rock.
  2. Magma that cools below the Earth's surface forming intrusive igneous rock bodies
  3. One of Earth's major earthquake zones
  4. a form of ductile strain in which rock layers ben, usually as a result of compression
  5. magma rich in magnesium and iron and is commonly dark in color
  6. a seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a back and forth direction parallel to the direction the wave is traveling
  7. a measure of the strentgth of an earthquake
  8. commonly form as the result of the collision of tectonic plates
  9. a seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a side to side direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave is traveling
  10. magma that flows onto the Earth's surface
Down
  1. used by scientists to record earthquake vibrations
  2. often caused by ocean-floor earthquakes
  3. a series of mountains that are closely related in orientation, age, and mode of formation
  4. fragments of rock that form during a volcanic eruption
  5. a break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
  6. the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in shape or volume of rock in response to stress
  7. the measure of the effects of an earthquake
  8. the point on Earht's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point, or focus
  9. Areas of volcanic activity that are located over rising mantle plumes that can exist far from tectonic plate boundaries
  10. any chain in a rock's shape or volume caused by stress

20 Clues: One of Earth's major earthquake zones • often caused by ocean-floor earthquakes • magma that flows onto the Earth's surface • the measure of the effects of an earthquake • a measure of the strentgth of an earthquake • Magma may form when this is added to hot rock. • used by scientists to record earthquake vibrations • ...

Plate Tectonics - First Block 2014-09-29

Plate Tectonics - First Block crossword puzzle
Across
  1. one plate moves under the other
  2. how thick a liquid is
  3. crack in the plates
  4. elevated region with a central valley on the ocean floor
  5. depth of earthquake
  6. the inside of the earth
  7. a current in a fluid that results from convection
  8. size of an earthquake
  9. come apart
  10. upper layer of the mantle below the lithosphere
  11. upper mantle and the crust
Down
  1. the middle of the earth
  2. when 2 plates pass each other
  3. super continent
  4. when 2 plates collide the younger will rise over the other
  5. one plate slides past another
  6. linear shaped lowland between several mountians
  7. one plate slips down relative to the other
  8. one plate is moved upward to the other
  9. boundary pull apart
  10. ocean around the super continent

21 Clues: come apart • super continent • crack in the plates • depth of earthquake • boundary pull apart • how thick a liquid is • size of an earthquake • the middle of the earth • the inside of the earth • upper mantle and the crust • when 2 plates pass each other • one plate slides past another • one plate moves under the other • ocean around the super continent • ...

Evolution and Plate Tectonics 2014-05-26

Evolution and Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. fossil copy of an organism in a rock
  2. impression of an organism in a rock
  3. preserved evidence of the activity of an organism
  4. person who studies plants and animals by observing them
  5. when all individuals of a species have died
  6. similar cells that work together and perform a function
  7. pulling force at a divergent boundary
  8. the breeding of organisms for desired characteristics
  9. characteristic of a species that enables the species to survive in its environment
  10. set of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth
  11. states that Earth’s crust is broken into rigid plates that move slowly over Earth’s surface
  12. squeezing force at a convergent boundary
Down
  1. chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units
  2. hypothesis stating that continents move
  3. slight difference in the appearance of individual members of a species
  4. boundary where two plates move apart from each other
  5. resemblance of one species to another species
  6. boundary where plates slide horizontally past each other
  7. process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive in their environments live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations
  8. boundary where two plates move toward each other
  9. area where one plate slides under another
  10. adaptation that enables species to blend in with their environments
  11. change over time in populations of related organisms
  12. side-by-side dragging force at transform boundaries

24 Clues: impression of an organism in a rock • fossil copy of an organism in a rock • pulling force at a divergent boundary • hypothesis stating that continents move • squeezing force at a convergent boundary • area where one plate slides under another • when all individuals of a species have died • resemblance of one species to another species • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle. 2014-05-08

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of the Earth's surface.
  2. The shaking of Earth's crust.
  3. Surface along which rocks break and move.
  4. The partially melted layer of the mantle that underlies the lithosphere.
  5. Forms when two (Crustal) Lithospheric plates slide past each other.
  6. Forms when two (Crustal) Lithospheric Plates move apart.
  7. States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergent boundaries, moving outward.
  8. The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
  9. Waves of energy that reach Earth's surface during an earthquake, travel outward from the epicenter, and move rock particles up and down, and side to side.
  10. A long narrow valley on an ocean or sea floor.
  11. The outer shell of Earth that extends to a depth of 100 km.
  12. Energy waves that are produced at and travel outward from the earthquake's focus.
Down
  1. Waves that travel outward from an Earthquake's focus and cause particles in rocks to move back and forth in the same direction the wave is moving.
  2. A hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wegener that the states that continents have moved slowly to their current locations on Earth.
  3. Forms when two (Crustal) Lithospheric Plates come together.
  4. Single large landmass made up of all the continents connected together that broke apart 200 million years ago.
  5. Waves that travel outward from an earthquake's focus and move through Earth by causing particles in rocks to vibrate at right angles to the direction of the wave.
  6. The theory that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections.
  7. In an earthquake, the point beneath Earth's surface where energy release occurs.
  8. Opening in Earth's surface that often forms a mountain when layers of lava and volcanic ash erupt and build up.

20 Clues: The shaking of Earth's crust. • Surface along which rocks break and move. • A long narrow valley on an ocean or sea floor. • The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core. • Forms when two (Crustal) Lithospheric Plates move apart. • Forms when two (Crustal) Lithospheric Plates come together. • The outer shell of Earth that extends to a depth of 100 km. • ...

Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes 2014-10-28

Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Fault usually found at convergent plate boundaries
  2. Driving force of continental drift
  3. Formed when continental plates spread apart
  4. A plate boundary where plates are moving towards one another
  5. Break in the Earth's crust/lithosphere
  6. Large wave created by an undersea earthquake
  7. Fault with horizontal motion
  8. Underwater mountain chain along divergent plate boundary
  9. California's major fault
  10. A plate boundary where plates are spreading apart
  11. Fault usually found at divergent plate boundaries
  12. Supercontinent (means "worldwide earth" in Greek)
Down
  1. The west coast of North America is made up of many ___________ terranes
  2. Process of one plate sinking beneath another
  3. 90% of the world's earthquakes are along the
  4. Northern supercontinent
  5. Ancient reptile that provided fossil evidence for continental drift
  6. Worldwide ocean
  7. New oceanic crust is formed during _________ spreading
  8. Instrument for measuring earthquakes
  9. Formed when two oceanic plates converge
  10. Southern supercontinent
  11. The point on the Earth's surface above an earthquake's location
  12. Discovered continental drift
  13. __________ magnitude scale
  14. Fault with vertical motion
  15. A more horizontal fault found at convergent plate boundaries

27 Clues: Worldwide ocean • Northern supercontinent • Southern supercontinent • California's major fault • __________ magnitude scale • Fault with vertical motion • Fault with horizontal motion • Discovered continental drift • Driving force of continental drift • Instrument for measuring earthquakes • Break in the Earth's crust/lithosphere • Formed when two oceanic plates converge • ...

Plate Tectonics & Earth's Layers 2016-01-10

Plate Tectonics & Earth's Layers crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this is what happens when a plate moves BELOW another plate. For example, oceanic plates subducting under continental plates creates above ground volcanos.
  2. Heat & pressure do this, the further down you go from the Earth's crust to the core
  3. this is created when 2 oceanic plates spread apart. Seafloor spreading happens, when is what happens when new seafloor is being created; like when the Atlantic Ocean began growing.
  4. this part of the Earth's crust is found under the oceans AND is only about 5km thick.
  5. the type of movement that happens when 2 or more things come together.
  6. this is what is created when an oceanic plate moves below a continental plate, because the oceanic plate takes water with it; which mixes with magma.
  7. this is a landform made when 2 continental plates crash into each other and an upheaval of land/rock happens.
  8. sections of the Earth's crust that move, because of the convection currents in the mantle of the Earth
  9. this layer of the Earth is solid in the upper and lower parts, and is liquid-like in the middle; because convection currents causes flowing of the material here.
  10. a large break in the Earth's crust.
  11. a vibration of the Earth's plates that is caused by 2 plates sliding past each other AND getting stuck on one another.
  12. when convection currents do THIS, heat is taken away from the plates and the plates come closer together
Down
  1. when convection currents do THIS, heat is added to the plates and the plates separate and move apart
  2. this is created when an older oceanic plate moves below another younger oceanic plate. Because the plate takes water with it when it moves below, it mixes with magma.
  3. this layer of the Earth's crust is solid, because there is SO MUCH heat and pressure, the nickel and iron metals are squeezed into a solid.
  4. these are the heat waves that travel through the Earth's mantle, and allow the plates on the crust to move.
  5. the type of movement that happens when 2 or more things spread apart.
  6. this layer of the Earth is the only COMPLETELY liquid layer of the Earth. It is made of two metals: nickel and iron.
  7. the movement of the Earth's crust upward. This upward motion creates mountains.
  8. Heat & pressure do this, the further up you go from the Earth's core to the crust
  9. this part of the Earth's crust is found under the continents AND is about 30km thick.
  10. the layer of the Earth we live on. This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
  11. this was the name of the Earth's continents, when all 7 of them were joined together, 200 million years ago.

23 Clues: a large break in the Earth's crust. • the type of movement that happens when 2 or more things spread apart. • the type of movement that happens when 2 or more things come together. • the layer of the Earth we live on. This is the outermost layer of the Earth. • the movement of the Earth's crust upward. This upward motion creates mountains. • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle 2018-02-20

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A large, slowly moving body of snow and ice
  2. The solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
  3. A break in the earths crust that moves
  4. Thickest layer of the Earth, part solid part liquid where convection currents are found
  5. When two plates come together
  6. Thicker, less dense crust
  7. The theory that the continents are moving very slowly
  8. when two plates grind past each other
  9. Extremely deep areas in the ocean that are created by a subducting plate
  10. A solid mass of iron and nickel
  11. When two plates pull apart
  12. How much mass there is in any given volume
  13. A semi-fluid layer of solid liquid rock
Down
  1. A single landmass that includes two or more continents
  2. Thin, more dense than continental crust, subducting crust
  3. The movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another
  4. When one tectonic plates drives under another
  5. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth
  6. Waves produced by earthquakes that help us study the inner layers of earth
  7. The state of matter the earth's inner core is

20 Clues: Thicker, less dense crust • When two plates pull apart • When two plates come together • A solid mass of iron and nickel • when two plates grind past each other • A break in the earths crust that moves • A semi-fluid layer of solid liquid rock • How much mass there is in any given volume • A large, slowly moving body of snow and ice • ...

Plate Tectonics CROSS/SEARCH 2022-03-01

Plate Tectonics CROSS/SEARCH crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Covers the axon and works like an insulator to keep the signal inside the cell
  2. Nerve that carries impulses to the brain or spinal cord
  3. Connector nerve cells that carry messages between sensory and motor neurons
  4. Lobe of the cerebrum that is responsible for visual processing
  5. Lobe of the cerebrum that is responsible for movement, balance
  6. An involuntary response to something, which happens quickly use to protect your body from harm
  7. controls all body functions by sending and receiving messages up and down the spinal cord through the nerves
  8. Lobe of the cerebrum that is responsible for auditory, memory
  9. Neuron cell body
  10. A pathway in which your brain sends and receives information about what is happening in and around the body
  11. The message carried by neurons is called a nerve.
  12. Carries messages to and from parts of the body to the central nervous system through nerves
Down
  1. Sends information through peripheral nerves to your central nervous system
  2. A gap that separates the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of the next neuron
  3. Makes sure processes in your body work automatically
  4. Made up of the brain and spinal cord
  5. Connects brain to spinal cord controls hunger, body temperature, blood pressure and breathing
  6. Located under the cerebrum in the back of the brain and controls balance and complex actions like walking
  7. Neuron A nerve that carries impulses from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland
  8. Lobe of the cerebrum that is responsible for reasoning, planning
  9. brings electrical signals towards the soma
  10. Takes information away from the soma
  11. Specialized cells that carry messages through an electrochemical process
  12. Largest part of the brain that uses information from our senses to tell us what is going on and how to respond

24 Clues: Neuron cell body • Made up of the brain and spinal cord • Takes information away from the soma • brings electrical signals towards the soma • The message carried by neurons is called a nerve. • Makes sure processes in your body work automatically • Nerve that carries impulses to the brain or spinal cord • Lobe of the cerebrum that is responsible for auditory, memory • ...

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle 2023-11-15

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A mountain with a crater were lava comes out of.
  2. The shaking feeling from rocks being moved below earth's surface.
  3. A force that acts on rocks to change its shape or its volume.
  4. the transfer of heat by direct physical touch.
  5. Energy that travels through space at the speed of light.
  6. A stress that pushes inward on a rock until it breaks or folds.
  7. The area on the surface above where the focus is located.
  8. The certain number scientist give to earthquakes based on the size.
  9. Where rocks on the same fault slip past each other.
  10. A stress that pushes a mass of rocks in two different directions
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  1. Same as a the normal fault except this one move the opposite way.
  2. A type of fault that is pulled by tension.
  3. A place that is hotter than it's surroundings.
  4. A type of heat transfer
  5. Molten rock above earth's surface.
  6. A current in a gas/fluid from convection
  7. The area under earth's surface where rock begin to move.
  8. Molten rock below earth's crust.
  9. Records produced by a seismograph
  10. A stress that pulls outwards on rock thinning it in the middle.

20 Clues: A type of heat transfer • Molten rock below earth's crust. • Records produced by a seismograph • Molten rock above earth's surface. • A current in a gas/fluid from convection • A type of fault that is pulled by tension. • A place that is hotter than it's surroundings. • the transfer of heat by direct physical touch. • A mountain with a crater were lava comes out of. • ...

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle 2023-11-20

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. rate magnitude of small earthquake's size
  2. instrument that records an earthquake's seismic waves
  3. a fault zone where two blocks of land move horizontally rather than vertically along a fault plane
  4. a dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below
  5. a number based on the earthquake's size
  6. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground
  7. a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane
  8. rate total energy a earthquake releases
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  1. plates come together
  2. record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph
  3. point directly above the focus
  4. seismic waves that vibrate side to side or up and down
  5. rates amount of shaking from an earthquake
  6. seismic waves that expand like an accordian
  7. large area of flat land
  8. plates pull apart
  9. slow but can produce severe ground movements
  10. area of rock that begins to break or move
  11. mountain that forms when magma reaches the surface
  12. plates slip past each other

20 Clues: plates pull apart • plates come together • large area of flat land • plates slip past each other • point directly above the focus • a number based on the earthquake's size • rate total energy a earthquake releases • rate magnitude of small earthquake's size • area of rock that begins to break or move • rates amount of shaking from an earthquake • ...

Plate Tectonics Vocab Crossward 2024-01-10

Plate Tectonics Vocab Crossward crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When Oceanic plates collide if there is a difference in density there is subduction which often creates trenches in the ocean floor.
  2. A break in the earth’s crust.
  3. When Plates collide and doing so shakes or reshapes the Earth.
  4. When continental plates collide the crust gets folded and mountains form.
  5. When one plate goes under another because there is a difference in density.
  6. solid top most layer of the earth, includes crust and solid part of the mantle.
  7. When plates move away from each other
  8. A mountain spewing molten rock or lava from the Asthenosphere.
  9. Volcanoes- When the Earth cracks far down and hits the asthenosphere creating a volcano inside a fissure in the Earth’s crust.
  10. When Oceanic crust goes under continental crust and creates trenches in the sea floor.
  11. Core- Solid inner most layer of earth, it is also made up of nickel and iron.
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  1. mantle- Solid uppermost part of the mantle.
  2. Solid outermost layer of the earth subdivided continental crust and oceanic crust, broken into tectonic plates.
  3. Gooey melted rock that is located directly under the lithosphere.
  4. Events- Natural disasters caused by the movement of tectonic plates.
  5. core- Really hot liquid metal and rock primary, metals are iron and nickel, It is also under the asthenosphere.
  6. Boundaries- A place where two plates meet or collide.
  7. When two plates collide with each other.
  8. depression in the ocean floor usually by a subduction zone or fault line
  9. currents- Heat transferred through the movement of fluids or gasses, based on density.

20 Clues: A break in the earth’s crust. • When plates move away from each other • When two plates collide with each other. • mantle- Solid uppermost part of the mantle. • Boundaries- A place where two plates meet or collide. • When Plates collide and doing so shakes or reshapes the Earth. • A mountain spewing molten rock or lava from the Asthenosphere. • ...

Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics 2025-04-01

Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an area where one plate is moving underneath another plate
  2. type of volcano that is created when magma is too thick to move so it just piles up
  3. where 2 plates are coming together
  4. created the theory of seafloor spreading
  5. giant wave of water caused by a major earthquake
  6. type of volcano that looks more like a gentle hill
  7. sudden downshift in land caused by earthquakes
  8. area surrounding the Pacific Ocean with lots of volcanoes and earthquakes
  9. type of evidence used by Wegener where he found that the same rocks were found on different continents and mountain ranges match up
  10. type of evidence used by Wegener where he found evidence of glaciers in warm places and fossil fuels in Antarctica
  11. type of evidence used by Wegener where he found the remains of the same plants and animals on different continents
Down
  1. type of volcano that releases cinders
  2. caused by sudden movement in the Earth, causes the ground to shake
  3. stationary area of the Earth with a plume of magma that goes down into the mantle, the crust moves over the top of it
  4. areas in the Earth where magma erupts on the surface
  5. where 2 plates are sliding past each other
  6. where 2 plates are pulling apart
  7. created the theory of continental drift
  8. type of evidence used by Wegener where he noticed that some continents seem to fit together like puzzle pieces
  9. type of volcano with very destructive eruptions

20 Clues: where 2 plates are pulling apart • where 2 plates are coming together • type of volcano that releases cinders • created the theory of continental drift • created the theory of seafloor spreading • where 2 plates are sliding past each other • sudden downshift in land caused by earthquakes • type of volcano with very destructive eruptions • ...

Plate Tectonics Review Crossword 2024-10-18

Plate Tectonics Review Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Pangaea means ___________.
  2. Alfred Wegener used geologic ___________ to support continental drift.
  3. Alfred Wegener used identical _________ of plants and animals found in areas once connected to support continental drift.
  4. A mid-ocean ridge is a chain or underwater ___________ that run throughout the ocean basins, have a total length of 65,000 km, and contain active and extinct volcanoes
  5. Describes how tectonic plates move and shape Earth's surface
  6. Huge pieces of crust and rigid upper mantle that fit together at their edges
  7. Type of boundary that have long faults and shallow earthquakes
  8. The plastic-like layer of the mantle that the plates move around on
  9. Alfred Wegener used climate ________ to support continental drift.
  10. German Meteorologist who came up with continental drift
Down
  1. Type of boundary the causes ocean basins to expand
  2. Type of boundary where 2 plates are moving apart
  3. The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another
  4. States the the seafloor is young because it is moving apart in the middle
  5. Type of boundary where 2 plates move towards each other
  6. Alfred Wegener used the similarities in the _______ of continents to support continental drift.
  7. Scientists believe that this causes the motion of tectonic plates
  8. Type of boundary found along the seafloor in rift valleys
  9. Occurs when 2 plates collide, and the denser plate moves below the less dense plate
  10. The Earth's crust and the rigid layer of the mantle that is connected to the crust
  11. Type of boundary where 2 plates slide horizontally past each other
  12. States that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
  13. Geologist who came up with seafloor spreading
  14. Number of major plates

24 Clues: Number of major plates • Pangaea means ___________. • Geologist who came up with seafloor spreading • Type of boundary where 2 plates are moving apart • Type of boundary the causes ocean basins to expand • Type of boundary where 2 plates move towards each other • German Meteorologist who came up with continental drift • ...

Marine Biology Plate Tectonics 2025-09-09

Marine Biology Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Flat topped underwater volcanic mountains
  2. plates, Large rigid pieces of Earths lithosphere that move over the mantle
  3. crust, The thin dense layer of crust that forms the ocean floor mostly made of basalt
  4. Underwater volcanic mountains that rise from the ocean floor but do not reach the surface
  5. drift, The theory that continents slowly move across the Earths surface over time
  6. tectonics, The theory that Earths lithosphere is broken into plates that move and interact at boundaries
  7. ocean ridge, An underwater mountain range where new oceanic crust forms at divergent plate boundaries
  8. The thick layer of Earth between the crust and core made of hot solid rock that flows slowly
  9. margin, A continental margin located near a plate boundary with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes
  10. margin, A continental margin far from plate boundaries with little earthquake or volcanic activity
  11. The central part of the Earth composed mostly of iron and nickel divided into inner and outer layers
  12. A dark dense volcanic rock that makes up much of the oceanic crust
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  1. margin, The zone where the continental crust meets the oceanic crust
  2. rise, The gently sloping area at the base of the continental slope made of sediments
  3. shelf, The shallow submerged edge of a continent extending into the ocean
  4. A light colored coarse grained rock that makes up much of the continental crust
  5. anomalies, Variations in the Earths magnetic field caused by the movement of seafloor rocks
  6. The process where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another into the mantle
  7. canyon, A steep sided valley cut into the continental shelf and slope often leading to the deep ocean
  8. The supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago before breaking apart into todays continents
  9. plains, Flat deep areas of the ocean floor found between the continental rise and mid ocean ridges
  10. Deep narrow depressions in the ocean floor formed at subduction zones
  11. The outermost layer of the Earth which includes continental and oceanic crust
  12. spreading, The process by which new oceanic crust forms at mid ocean ridges and moves outward

24 Clues: Flat topped underwater volcanic mountains • A dark dense volcanic rock that makes up much of the oceanic crust • margin, The zone where the continental crust meets the oceanic crust • Deep narrow depressions in the ocean floor formed at subduction zones • shelf, The shallow submerged edge of a continent extending into the ocean • ...

Science crossword 2021-12-15

Science crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Hot fluid material below or within the earths crust
  2. Processes by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid
  3. The uppermost solid part of the earth
  4. Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid
  5. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground sometimes causing great destruction
  6. A long narrow depressions on the seafloor
  7. The relatively thick part of the earths crust that forms large landmasses
Down
  1. A rock that forms when hot, molten rock crystallizes and hardens
  2. A mountain or hill having a vent through which lava or magma is being erupted
  3. A type of plate boundary where the plates slowly collide into each other
  4. A type of plate boundary where the plates slowly move apart from each other
  5. Large scale processes affecting the structure of the earths crust
  6. The process in which crust pushes downward into the mantle at a fault line
  7. A large segment of the Earths crust that slowly moves
  8. A type of fault where the crust moves sideways past each other

15 Clues: The uppermost solid part of the earth • A long narrow depressions on the seafloor • Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid • Hot fluid material below or within the earths crust • A large segment of the Earths crust that slowly moves • A type of fault where the crust moves sideways past each other • ...

Year 8 Geography - Tectonics 2020-12-09

Year 8 Geography - Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The outer rocky layer
  2. A supervolcano located in Wyoming, USA
  3. Evidence of continental drift
  4. A place where two or more tectonic plates meet
  5. How sticky a liquid is
  6. Cone shaped volcano made of layers of lava and ash
  7. Wide based volcano with gentle sloping sides
  8. 3000km thick and made of semi-molten rock
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  1. Mudflows of ash and water
  2. The process that controls the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time
  3. A zone where two continental plate collide
  4. a plate boundary where plates slide past one another in opposite directions or at different speeds
  5. A current which causes plates to move
  6. The planet home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus mons

14 Clues: The outer rocky layer • How sticky a liquid is • Mudflows of ash and water • Evidence of continental drift • A current which causes plates to move • A supervolcano located in Wyoming, USA • 3000km thick and made of semi-molten rock • A zone where two continental plate collide • Wide based volcano with gentle sloping sides • A place where two or more tectonic plates meet • ...

Emily. 2015-05-01

Emily. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its seduction.
  2. drift the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
  3. linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  4. Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle
  5. a line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
  6. a change in the earths magnetic field
  7. the branch of geophysics concerned with the magnetism in rocks that was induced by the earth's magnetic field at the time of their formation.
  8. super continent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
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  1. instrument used for measuring magnetic forces, especially the earth's magnetism.
  2. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  3. a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.
  4. s an actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
  5. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust
  6. type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction.
  7. sliding plate force is a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics

15 Clues: a change in the earths magnetic field • the formation of new areas of oceanic crust • Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle • sliding plate force is a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics • super continent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. • ...

Kendile's Cross Word Puzzle 2015-04-30

Kendile's Cross Word Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction
  2. the study of magnetic record in rocks
  3. a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems
  4. A supercontinent that included all the world's landmasses
  5. theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle
  6. a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged
  7. a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal in either direction
  8. a line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times
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  1. a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge
  2. two tectonic plates move toward one another and collide
  3. is the process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle
  4. Wegner's hypothesis
  5. a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  6. sliding plate force is a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics
  7. measures small changes in magnetic fields

15 Clues: Wegner's hypothesis • the study of magnetic record in rocks • measures small changes in magnetic fields • two tectonic plates move toward one another and collide • A supercontinent that included all the world's landmasses • sliding plate force is a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics • ...

Tectonic Plates 2023-10-24

Tectonic Plates crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The hard outer layer of earth broken into tectonic plates
  2. plate. Sections of the lithosphere that move on top of the fluid asthenosphere
  3. boundaries The edge of a tectonic plate where tectonic activity takes place (ex.earthquakes/volcanoes)
  4. Core The solid layer at the center of earth
  5. The rigid outer layer of Earth
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  1. currents A type of heat transfer. Where hot fluid rises and as it gets colder near the top sink.(happens in asthenosphere)
  2. The fluid portion of the mantle that has special properties
  3. core The molten layer at the center of earth responsible for the magnetic shield
  4. Molten rock under the surface of earth
  5. of plate tectonics a theory that says earths outer layers are made of moving plates

10 Clues: The rigid outer layer of Earth • Molten rock under the surface of earth • The hard outer layer of earth broken into tectonic plates • The fluid portion of the mantle that has special properties • Core The solid layer at the center of earth • of plate tectonics a theory that says earths outer layers are made of moving plates • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword 2024-10-17

Plate Tectonics Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. moving toward the same place
  2. something we observe to be similar over and over again
  3. gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth
  4. layer of soft, rock under Earth’s plates
  5. a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface
  6. the place where two plates meet
  7. Earth’s solid rock that is under the soil, plants and water
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  1. a canyon in the ocean floor formed at convergence
  2. moving apart in different directions
  3. to examine in detail for a purpose
  4. underwater mountain range formed at divergence
  5. how often or fast something happens
  6. shows what the inside of something looks like

13 Clues: moving toward the same place • the place where two plates meet • to examine in detail for a purpose • how often or fast something happens • a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface • moving apart in different directions • layer of soft, rock under Earth’s plates • shows what the inside of something looks like • underwater mountain range formed at divergence • ...

tectonic puzzle 2022-02-08

tectonic puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate slides under the other
  2. created by convergent plates
  3. When two plates come together
  4. caused by divergent plates
  5. Valley Created from sea-floor spreading
Down
  1. Are created when two plates come together
  2. When two plates slide pass each other
  3. Hot lava
  4. When two plates move apart
  5. Cause tectonics plates to move

10 Clues: Hot lava • When two plates move apart • caused by divergent plates • created by convergent plates • When two plates come together • Cause tectonics plates to move • When two plates slide pass each other • when one plate slides under the other • Valley Created from sea-floor spreading • Are created when two plates come together

tectonic puzzle 2022-02-08

tectonic puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate slides under the other
  2. created by convergent plates
  3. When two plates come together
  4. caused by divergent plates
  5. Valley Created from sea-floor spreading
Down
  1. Are created when two plates come together
  2. When two plates slide pass each other
  3. Hot lava
  4. When two plates move apart
  5. Cause tectonics plates to move

10 Clues: Hot lava • When two plates move apart • caused by divergent plates • created by convergent plates • When two plates come together • Cause tectonics plates to move • When two plates slide pass each other • when one plate slides under the other • Valley Created from sea-floor spreading • Are created when two plates come together

tectonic puzzle 2022-02-08

tectonic puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when one plate slides under the other
  2. created by convergent plates
  3. When two plates come together
  4. caused by divergent plates
  5. Valley Created from sea-floor spreading
Down
  1. Are created when two plates come together
  2. When two plates slide pass each other
  3. Hot lava
  4. When two plates move apart
  5. Cause tectonics plates to move

10 Clues: Hot lava • When two plates move apart • caused by divergent plates • created by convergent plates • When two plates come together • Cause tectonics plates to move • When two plates slide pass each other • when one plate slides under the other • Valley Created from sea-floor spreading • Are created when two plates come together

Plate Tectonics Test Review 2017-11-29

Plate Tectonics Test Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the echo sounder showed the _____ of the ocean floor
  2. melted mantle
  3. when to plates slide past each other
  4. type of reversal which shows that the poles switched
  5. an example of an volcanic island arc
  6. least dense type of crust
  7. mountains created by converging continents
  8. what happens are convergent boundaries
Down
  1. valley formed by two plates diverging
  2. ______ rocks are closer to the center of the mid ocean ridge
  3. the pattern which the magnetic poles show on the ocean floor
  4. magma cooled down to create new crust
  5. location where two plates meet
  6. boundary where two plates move away from each other
  7. mid ocean ridges form underwater _______
  8. younger crust
  9. created by continental crust and oceanic crust colliding
  10. the type of boundary when two plates slide opposite directions
  11. when one plate ______ under another during subduction
  12. break in earth's crust

20 Clues: melted mantle • younger crust • break in earth's crust • least dense type of crust • location where two plates meet • when to plates slide past each other • an example of an volcanic island arc • valley formed by two plates diverging • magma cooled down to create new crust • what happens are convergent boundaries • mid ocean ridges form underwater _______ • ...

Plate tectonics, Earthquakes, & Volcanoes 2012-02-01

Plate tectonics, Earthquakes, & Volcanoes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. break in earth's crust along which movement occurs
  2. the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  3. when magma hardens inside a volcano and the volcano erodes forms this
  4. bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the air
  5. most active volcano in the world
  6. forms when magma hardens before it reaches the surface into a dome shape
  7. Plastic-like layer of the lower mantle on which the lithosphere move
  8. Harry Hess's theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge
  9. break in rock caused by compressive forces, where rock above the fault surface moves upward relative to the rock below the fault surface
  10. a volcano with very steep sides
  11. sections of the Earth's upper mantle and crust that move slowly
  12. when magma squeezes into cracks in rocks and hardens usually vertically
  13. point under the surface of the Earth where an earthquake originates
  14. Alfred Wegener's theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past
  15. a volcano with gently sloping sides
  16. ocean wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor
  17. break in rock caused by shear forces, where rocks move past each other without much vertical movement
  18. seismic wave that moves rock particles at right angles to the direction of the wave
  19. when the top of a volcano collapses it forms this
  20. Wave which causes rock particles to move in a backward rolling and side to side swaying motion, this is the most destructive earthquake wave
  21. measure of the energy released by an earthquake
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  1. a caldera that formed on Mt.Mazama and filled with water
  2. a volcano that is in between shield and cinder cone volcanoes
  3. the solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the upper part of the mantle
  4. The process by which an earthquake's violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into liquid mud
  5. A current in the asthenosphere caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid. Causes the movement of tectonic plates.
  6. a wave produced by an earthquake
  7. a theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move
  8. break in rock caused by tension forces, where rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface
  9. an island that was formed by volcanic eruptions along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  10. seismic wave that moves rock particles back and forth in the same direction that the wave travels
  11. the shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath earth's surface.
  12. when magma squeezes into cracks in rocks and hardens usually horizontally
  13. large, ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents joined together

34 Clues: a volcano with very steep sides • most active volcano in the world • a wave produced by an earthquake • a volcano with gently sloping sides • measure of the energy released by an earthquake • when the top of a volcano collapses it forms this • break in earth's crust along which movement occurs • bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the air • ...

Plate Tectonics and MORE!!! 2013-10-15

Plate Tectonics and MORE!!! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this famous mountain range was created by continental collision
  2. these form at this boundary that slides
  3. the only fault that collides
  4. rift valleys are made from this boundary
  5. rising magma cools filling the cracks and spreading apart forming new crust
  6. what is the boundary in which plates collide
  7. the man who proposed the theory of seafloor spreading
  8. uses sheer force
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  1. when continental plates move apart this can possibly form
  2. the fault where the hanging wall moves down
  3. the point inside the earth in which the earthquake really happens
  4. this is the boundary where most earthquakes happen
  5. the system of ridges formed by this place
  6. what pushes the plates around
  7. the zone where the oceanic plate plunges beneath the less dense continental plate
  8. the layer that is the crust of the earth and its upper mantle combined
  9. the plastic like layer below the lithosphere
  10. earths crust and part of the upper mantle broken into sections
  11. the point on the surface above the earthquake
  12. this was used to map the ocean

20 Clues: uses sheer force • the only fault that collides • what pushes the plates around • this was used to map the ocean • these form at this boundary that slides • rift valleys are made from this boundary • the system of ridges formed by this place • the fault where the hanging wall moves down • the plastic like layer below the lithosphere • ...

Chapter Three - Plate Tectonics 2014-11-25

Chapter Three - Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the number of main layers of the Earth
  2. how much mass there is in a volume of substance
  3. theory that explains the formation, movement, and subduction of Earth's plates
  4. moving downward this layer is between the lithospere and the lower mantle
  5. responsible for the movement of mantle rock
  6. boundary where plates slide past each other
  7. the oldest rock is located _____ from the mid-ocean ridge
  8. things like rocks that can be held in your hand as proof
  9. heat transfer through touch
  10. the ocean that is expanding due to a lower number of trenches
  11. fernlike plant found in Antarctica
  12. an example of indirect evidence
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  1. force pressing on an area; increases as you move down through Earth
  2. provided drilling samples to support sea-floor spreading
  3. location of oceanic crust sinking back into the mantle
  4. creator of the theory of sea-floor spreading
  5. all lands
  6. part of the core that is molten
  7. creator of the idea that the continents have moved to their current locations
  8. forms along divergent boundaries
  9. location of the formation of new crust
  10. well tested concept that explains observations
  11. form when two continental plates collide
  12. a device that uses sound waves to help map the ocean floor

24 Clues: all lands • heat transfer through touch • part of the core that is molten • an example of indirect evidence • forms along divergent boundaries • fernlike plant found in Antarctica • the number of main layers of the Earth • location of the formation of new crust • form when two continental plates collide • responsible for the movement of mantle rock • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle 2021-09-30

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice
  2. the movement or study of the movement of Earth's crust
  3. a sudden outbreak of something, typically something unwelcome or noisy
  4. reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state
  5. crash together with violent impact
  6. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
  7. a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body
  8. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
  9. a strike-slip fault occurring at the boundary between two plates of the earth's crust
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  1. subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
  2. any of the world's main continuous expanses of land
  3. the regions of the Earth where living organisms exist
  4. a specialist in the history of the Earth recorded in rocks
  5. relating to or forming part of the structure of a building or other item
  6. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
  7. another word for disengage
  8. a 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
  9. a continent or other large body of land
  10. liquid rock
  11. a sheet of floating ice

20 Clues: liquid rock • a sheet of floating ice • another word for disengage • crash together with violent impact • a continent or other large body of land • any of the world's main continuous expanses of land • the regions of the Earth where living organisms exist • the movement or study of the movement of Earth's crust • subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration • ...

Plate Tectonics by Vivian 2021-09-17

Plate Tectonics by Vivian crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The scientist that discovered plate tectonics
  2. The amount of Earth's life
  3. The most common event while transforming
  4. Earth's crust is split into these
  5. The theory that the plates are moving constantly
  6. The most common event during convergence
  7. The area in the crust and part of mantle
  8. The inner-most layer of the earth
  9. When one land mass goes under another
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  1. A scientist that studies rocks
  2. The layer between the crust and outer core
  3. The type of current that cause plates to move
  4. When two plates go away from each other
  5. The second hottest layer of the earth
  6. valleys The most common event during divergence
  7. A large supercontinent that was around 280 mil. years ago
  8. When two plates collide and form mountains
  9. When two plates slide past each other
  10. The outermost layer of the earth
  11. Mountain ridges where new seafloor is created by seafloor spreading

20 Clues: The amount of Earth's life • A scientist that studies rocks • The outermost layer of the earth • Earth's crust is split into these • The inner-most layer of the earth • The second hottest layer of the earth • When two plates slide past each other • When one land mass goes under another • When two plates go away from each other • The most common event while transforming • ...

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle 2021-11-09

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the name of a single landmass that broke up around 200-300 million years ago
  2. The layer of earth where convection currents take place
  3. Two plates separating
  4. The innermost/ densest layer of earth
  5. a system that determines the distance of an object underwater by recording the echoes of sound waves
  6. a process in which new land is created and the old land moves further away from where it was created
  7. a break in the earths lithosphere along which the rocks move along
  8. a vibration that travels through the earth carrying the energy released by an earthquake
  9. Two plates sliding past each other
  10. a extensive break in the middle of the ocean which shows how plates are moving
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  1. a liquid-like solid layer in the mantle that the plates float on
  2. Two plates colliding
  3. a deep valley along the ocean floor where the oceanic crust sinks into the mantle
  4. the upper most layer of the mantle
  5. a deep valley that is formed when to plates move apart
  6. Alfred Wegener created this idea
  7. Large chunks of land that float on the mantle
  8. The Scientist that created the plate Tectonics theory
  9. process by which a denser crust sinks down into the mantle
  10. The outermost/ least dense layer of earth

20 Clues: Two plates colliding • Two plates separating • Alfred Wegener created this idea • the upper most layer of the mantle • Two plates sliding past each other • The innermost/ densest layer of earth • The outermost/ least dense layer of earth • Large chunks of land that float on the mantle • The Scientist that created the plate Tectonics theory • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle 2021-11-27

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. innermost layer of the earth
  2. the rock it’s made out of
  3. Boundary between the crust and mantle
  4. crust and outermost part of the mantle
  5. An intrusive Igneous rock
  6. a type of matter it can change its shape
  7. rest of the mantle
  8. below the crust and has 3 parts
  9. type of crust has granite
Down
  1. mass times volume
  2. a chemical sedimentary rock
  3. liquid layer
  4. upper plastic mantle
  5. thinnest layer of the earth
  6. measures to 1,000 meters
  7. Type of crust has basalt
  8. How thick something is
  9. a type of matter has the most molecules
  10. movement of the Earth’s plates
  11. An extrusive igneous rock

20 Clues: liquid layer • mass times volume • rest of the mantle • upper plastic mantle • How thick something is • measures to 1,000 meters • Type of crust has basalt • the rock it’s made out of • An intrusive Igneous rock • An extrusive igneous rock • type of crust has granite • a chemical sedimentary rock • thinnest layer of the earth • innermost layer of the earth • movement of the Earth’s plates • ...

Unit 3: Plate Tectonics 2023-11-13

Unit 3: Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a small, violently erupting volcano formed by an accumulation of large pyroclastic materials around a vent (two words)
  2. aka P-waves, cause particles in a material to undergo a push-pull type motion
  3. a long, linear, dropped-down valley between twin, parallel mountain ranges produced by faulting (two words)
  4. the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus
  5. a broad, flat volcano formed by layers of free-flowing, high temperature basaltic lava
  6. mountains mountains that form when large pieces of crust are tilted, uplifted, or dropped downward between large normal faults (two words)
  7. igneous rock formed when magma pushes through dikes and erupts onto the seafloor (two words)
  8. a boundary that marks a denisty change between layers
  9. a weaker, plastic like layer upon which the plates move
  10. the sudden energy release that goes with fault movement and causes earthquakes, or seismic vibrations (____ rebound)
  11. tectonic plate boundary that exists as a large fault, or crack, along which lithospheric plates move in a horizontal direction (slide past one another in opposite directions)
  12. aka S-waves, are body waves that travel more slowly than primary waves, S-waves cause particles to move perpendicular to the directions of wave travel
  13. tectonic plate boundary where lithospheric plates are moving apart
Down
  1. a cycle of processes that form all mountain ranges, resulting in broad mountain belts, most of which are associated with plate boundaries
  2. a measure of the resistance of a fluid to flow
  3. a tectonic plate boundary where lithospheric plates collide
  4. mountains mountains that form when large regions of Earth are forced slowly upward without much deformation
  5. drift theory Earth's continents were joined as a single land mass, called Pangaea, that broke apart about 200 million years ago and slowly moved to their present positions
  6. a condition of equilibrium that describes the displacement of Earth's mantle by Earth's continental and oceanic crust
  7. any solid expelled from a volcano
  8. a large volcano formed by alternating lava flows and violently erupting pyroclastic materials (another name stratovolcano
  9. the point of origin of an earthquake
  10. a continuous system of twin mountain ranges with a rift valley between them that extends around Earth on the seafloor; formed where two oceanic plates are forced apart due to magma rising from Earth's mantle (two word __-_____ ridge)
  11. occurs when lithospheric plates converge and the edge of one plate is forced downward beneath the another, turning the subducted lithosphere back into magma
  12. a "dead zone" between 105 and 140 degrees from an earthquakes epicenter, where nothing is recorded on a seismogram

25 Clues: any solid expelled from a volcano • the point of origin of an earthquake • a measure of the resistance of a fluid to flow • the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus • a boundary that marks a denisty change between layers • a weaker, plastic like layer upon which the plates move • a tectonic plate boundary where lithospheric plates collide • ...

Plate Tectonics Cris-cross! 2023-11-15

Plate Tectonics Cris-cross! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. deep underwater canyons that the sea-floor plunges into
  2. a form of heat transferin the form of heat waves that can be absorbed by other objects
  3. crust that sits on the ocean floor
  4. a form of heat transfer which ocurs when 2 objects touch
  5. a boundry of tectonic plates where they are moving away from eachother
  6. where pieces of earth's crust are coming apart on land
  7. a record of an earthquake created by a seismograph after the earthquake hits
  8. long mountain ranges that rise up from the ocean floor that add material to the seafloor from the mantle
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  1. a form of heat transfer that only ocurs in gasses and liquids
  2. the process where older seafloor sinks back into the mantle by way of a deep ocean trench
  3. the theory that the plates are always slowly moving because of movement deeper in earth
  4. the layer of Earth that we are on
  5. breaks in Earths crust where the plates have moved past eachother
  6. crust that the continents sit on/are made out of
  7. the shaking that happens because of movement of the rock beneath Earth's surface
  8. a boundry of tectonic plates where they try to move in oposite directon and when they move they cause earthquakes
  9. the most recent supercontinent
  10. a piece of the cracked shell of the crust and rests on the mantle while fitting snuggly with eachother
  11. a boundry of tectonic plates where they come together
  12. the tool we use to measure seismic waves

20 Clues: the most recent supercontinent • the layer of Earth that we are on • crust that sits on the ocean floor • the tool we use to measure seismic waves • crust that the continents sit on/are made out of • a boundry of tectonic plates where they come together • where pieces of earth's crust are coming apart on land • deep underwater canyons that the sea-floor plunges into • ...

Plate Tectonics / Earthquakes / Volcanoes 2024-01-25

Plate Tectonics / Earthquakes / Volcanoes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The part of the pizza that gets left behind
  2. The area around the Pacific where many earthquakes and volcanoes are located. Sung about by Johnny Cash
  3. "Hot Stuff" on Earth's surface
  4. When one plate sinks beneath another plate
  5. A fine particulate that buried the people in Pompeii
  6. A current caused by rising heat fluids
  7. The earthquake that happens AFTER the main earthquake
  8. The strongest earthquake ever recorded was in this country
  9. The device that measures the strength of an earthquake
  10. A person who studies the composition of the Earth
  11. Relating to the heat inside of the Earth
  12. Sudden shaking of the ground caused by seismic waves passing through rock
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  1. Volcanic smog
  2. A small earthquake that barely shakes the ground - also a line of Ford trucks
  3. This is triggered by large undersea earthquakes. Wave as it goes by
  4. When you mess up, it is your ________.
  5. A landslide of rapidly melting snow and ice and dirt triggered by a volcano
  6. Look up the 'Sid shuffle' (Also the name of a Rolling Stones song)
  7. Large crack in the ground - often from seismic activity
  8. The __________ scale is used to measure the strength of an earthquake
  9. The stuff between Earth's core and its crust
  10. Melted rock beneath Earth's surface
  11. A volcano that has not erupted in a long time is this
  12. Two plates that split apart

24 Clues: Volcanic smog • Two plates that split apart • "Hot Stuff" on Earth's surface • Melted rock beneath Earth's surface • When you mess up, it is your ________. • A current caused by rising heat fluids • Relating to the heat inside of the Earth • When one plate sinks beneath another plate • The part of the pizza that gets left behind • The stuff between Earth's core and its crust • ...

Chapter 1: Plate Tectonics 2024-01-04

Chapter 1: Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. layer of rock that forms Earth's outer skin
  2. heat transfer by direct contact
  3. idea that all the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface
  4. shape the surface by building up mountains and landmasses
  5. seven great landmasses surrounded by oceans
  6. the lithosphere is broken apart into separate sections
  7. scientists who study the forces that make and shape the planet
  8. measure of how much mass there is per volume of a substance
  9. the part of the mantle that is soft and can bend-like plastic
  10. dark, dense rock with a fine texture
  11. slowly wear away mountains and eventually every other feature on the surface
  12. most extensive chain of maintains
  13. supercontinent, meaning "all lands"
  14. subduction allows parts of the ocean floor to sink back into the mantle, over tens of millions of years
  15. a place where two plates slide past each other, moving in opposite directions
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  1. process that adds new material to the ocean floor
  2. a dense ball of solid metal created with extreme pressure
  3. layer of molten metal that surrounds the inner core
  4. transfer of energy through empty space in waves
  5. constant flow of heats within a liquid
  6. hypothesis that all continents were once joined together in a single landmass
  7. in Greek means "weak"
  8. uppermost part of the mantle and crust together form a rigid layer
  9. a place where two plates move apart, or away from each other
  10. device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects
  11. heat transfer through gases of liquids
  12. a rock with larger crystals than basalt and is not as dense
  13. any trace of an ancient organism preserved in rock
  14. movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object
  15. layer of solid material and layers of hot rock
  16. breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other
  17. forms along divergent boundaries and is a deep valley
  18. where two plates come together

33 Clues: in Greek means "weak" • where two plates come together • heat transfer by direct contact • most extensive chain of maintains • supercontinent, meaning "all lands" • dark, dense rock with a fine texture • constant flow of heats within a liquid • heat transfer through gases of liquids • layer of rock that forms Earth's outer skin • seven great landmasses surrounded by oceans • ...

Earth's Layers & Plate Tectonics 2023-01-09

Earth's Layers & Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. reversed many times in Earth's history
  2. form on divergent/convergent boundaries
  3. increases as we dig deeper and deeper
  4. recycling of oceanic crust
  5. random mantle plume where volcanoes form
  6. "puzzle piece" part of continental drift theory
  7. boundary where seafloor spreading happens
  8. waxy area on which lithosphere rests
  9. produce scratches in rock from cold time period
  10. proposed continental drift
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  1. crust + top of mantle
  2. theory that crust is divided into sections
  3. boundary where plates collide
  4. alternating iron orientation on seafloor
  5. state of matter of the inner core
  6. idea that landmasses move
  7. trace of organism
  8. underwater chain of mountains
  9. needed for coal formation
  10. Sound Navigation and Ranging device
  11. thickest layer of Earth
  12. only fully liquid layer of Earth's interior
  13. proposed seafloor spreading

23 Clues: trace of organism • crust + top of mantle • thickest layer of Earth • idea that landmasses move • needed for coal formation • recycling of oceanic crust • proposed continental drift • proposed seafloor spreading • boundary where plates collide • underwater chain of mountains • state of matter of the inner core • Sound Navigation and Ranging device • ...

Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics 2024-03-25

Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. what is the shaking of the earths surface called?
  2. the process where one tectonic plate slices beneath another into the mantle
  3. what is the instrument used to detect and measure earthquakes?
  4. what is it called when molten rock, ash, and, and gases erupt from a volcano?
  5. what is the term for the boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other?
  6. what is the scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
  7. what is the term for the sudden movement of tectonic plates that causes an earthquake?
  8. what is the name of a break in the earths crust where earthquakes appear?
  9. what is the name for the process where the earths crust if lifted to form mountains?
  10. what is the term for the molten rock beneath the earths surface?
Down
  1. what is the outermost layer of the earths surface where we live?
  2. what is the term for the waves that travel through the earth during an earthquake?
  3. what is the name of the giant moving pieces of the earths lithosphere?
  4. what is the term for tectonic plates sliding past eachother horizontally?
  5. what is the term for the measurement of the size of an earthquake based on the amount of energy released?
  6. what is the term for a giant wave caused by an underground earthquake?
  7. the point beneath the earths surface where an earthquake originates
  8. what is the term for a sudden release of energy in the earths crust that causes an earthquake?
  9. what is the term for the process of measuring and recording seismic waves?
  10. what can earthquakes and tectonic plates shifting create?

20 Clues: what is the shaking of the earths surface called? • what can earthquakes and tectonic plates shifting create? • what is the instrument used to detect and measure earthquakes? • what is the outermost layer of the earths surface where we live? • what is the term for the molten rock beneath the earths surface? • ...

Chapter 5 Plate Tectonics 2023-02-10

Chapter 5 Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Energy that travels through space
  2. A large hill having a crater or vent through which lava erupts
  3. The movement caused within a fluid
  4. Zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
  5. The gradual movement of the continents
  6. Two plates slide past each other
  7. Massive slab of solid rock
  8. Preserved remains of plants and animals
  9. Two plates move away from each other
  10. A curved chain of volcanic islands
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  1. Super continent
  2. A path of active volcanoes
  3. Long and narrow
  4. Two plates move towards each other
  5. The structure of Earth's crust
  6. Forms when two plates move apart
  7. Large plume of hot mantle materiel
  8. The formation of new oceanic crust
  9. Heat is directly transferred from a hot object to a cooler object
  10. Hot fluid located beneath the Earth's crust

20 Clues: Super continent • Long and narrow • A path of active volcanoes • Massive slab of solid rock • The structure of Earth's crust • Forms when two plates move apart • Two plates slide past each other • Energy that travels through space • Two plates move towards each other • Large plume of hot mantle materiel • The formation of new oceanic crust • The movement caused within a fluid • ...

crossword about Plate Tectonics 2025-08-26

crossword about Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Softer layer beneath the lithosphere.
  2. Deep, narrow part of seafloor.
  3. Shaking from moving plates.
  4. Layer below the crust.
  5. Earth’s center.
  6. Boundary where plates slide past.
  7. Earth's outer layer.
  8. Magma that reaches the surface.
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  1. Boundary where plates move apart.
  2. Supercontinent when all plates were joined.
  3. Boundary where plates move together.
  4. Rigid outer shell (crust + top mantle).
  5. Bottom of the ocean, part of plate.
  6. Crack where plates meet.
  7. Plate: Large, moving piece of Earth's surface.
  8. Edge where plates touch.
  9. Mountain where magma comes out.
  10. Deep crack at a divergent boundary.
  11. Hot, melted rock underground.
  12. When one plate goes under another.

20 Clues: Earth’s center. • Earth's outer layer. • Layer below the crust. • Crack where plates meet. • Edge where plates touch. • Shaking from moving plates. • Hot, melted rock underground. • Deep, narrow part of seafloor. • Mountain where magma comes out. • Magma that reaches the surface. • Boundary where plates move apart. • Boundary where plates slide past. • ...

Topic 4 Plate Tectonics 2025-12-08

Topic 4 Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. how closely packed particles are in something
  2. scientists that study volcanoes and predict eruptions
  3. the paper showing the lines that were recoded during an earthquake
  4. this evidence for seafloor spreading shows repeating patterns of earth’s magnetic signature in the rocks
  5. Wegener thought all the continents moved apart in a process called __ __
  6. the place on the surface of earth directly above the focus of an earthquake
  7. in the ocean, at divergent boundaries, this land feature forms
  8. if the plate densities are similar along a convergent boundary, ___ may form as they crush together
  9. magma that has reached the surface is called this
  10. the forces of ___ movement cause earthquakes
  11. this scientist prosed the idea of sea floor spreading
  12. this volcano type is cone shaped and tall
  13. eruptions of a volcano where magma has a lot of silica- high silica is thick and sticky so it collects and move slowly and pressure builds up
  14. name for a collapsed volcano
  15. volcano that poses little threat but could become active
  16. stress that compresses rock
  17. this, in the mantle, is what is causing the plates to move
  18. when a rock folds and curves down like a U or V
  19. fine particles from the explosion of a volcano
  20. when is lava flowing out cracks over many years it forms this
  21. this fault is formed from shearing stress
  22. a fold in the rock that arches up
  23. a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume
  24. this part of the earth is liquid nickel and iron
  25. this is the wall that is always on top in a fault
  26. this part of the earth is solid nickel and iron
  27. he proposed the Theory of Plate Tectonics
  28. __ ___ ___ can form along a convergent boundary where subduction is happening
  29. Hess saw ___ ___ at mid-ocean ridge sites, they form when molten material cools quickly in water
  30. these waves during an earthquake are the most destructive- they are slow moving and a combination of P and S waves
  31. the crust is broken into pieces called ___ ___
  32. many did not believe Wegener because he couldn’t explain how the continents _____
  33. this volcanism happens when plates move and the volcanoes move with them and new ones form where the crust is still melting and rising
  34. the many plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean and lots of volcanic activity give the area this name
  35. fault that happened when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
  36. also called the hypocenter- the place where an earthquake happens underground
  37. the process of one plate moving down under another because it is more dense
  38. a ___ boundary is where 2 plates move in opposite directions from each other with little up and down movement
  39. this volcano type is where lava comes out of new vents
  40. the Theory of Plate Tectonics states that the plates are floating and moving along the ___
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  1. a ___ boundary is where 2 plates move apart
  2. a ___ boundary is where 2 plates come together
  3. the instrument that can detect earthquakes
  4. this volcano type has slow steady eruptions- lava flows out and builds up over a broad area
  5. this scale rates the magnitude of earthquakes from 0-10
  6. this can form on land at a divergent boundary
  7. during an earthquake, these waves are the first to arrive and compress the land
  8. where magma collects in a volcano
  9. this type of mountain forms when 2 pieces of rock on either side of it slip down (normal fault) and the mountain is left behind
  10. the lower part of the mantle
  11. when subduction occurs, it is because one plate is more ___ than the other
  12. Wegener’s supercontinent was called this
  13. in a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves ___ relative to the foot wall
  14. this is the wall that is always on the bottom in a fault
  15. stress that scrapes against rock as it moves side by side in opposite directions
  16. any place where there is a crack in the crust
  17. cooling lava forms this type of rock
  18. because this is so high, the molten material near the core heats and rises
  19. one of Wegener’s evidence was that ____ of animals were found on different continents today
  20. Wegener looked at maps and thought the continents could fit together like a jigsaw ____
  21. the thin outer most layer of the earth- the layer on which we live
  22. stress that stretches rock
  23. volcano that is an immediate threat for eruption
  24. during an earthquake these waves are the second to arrive and move the land up and down like ripples
  25. the layer in the Earth that has the most volume- composed of molten rock
  26. you need seismic recording from at least ____ different seismographs to locate the epicenter
  27. volcano that has little threat of eruption
  28. these cause the plates to move
  29. Hess showed from drilling samples that the further you get from mid-ocean ridges, the ___ the rock is
  30. this is an instrument used to detect changes in the tilt of a volcano’s slope
  31. the upper part of the mantle
  32. this scientist thought all the continents were once together
  33. these can forms leading away from the pipe in a volcano
  34. a ___ ___ is where 2 plates meet
  35. pebble like magma thrown from a volcanic explosion
  36. eruptions where lava is thin and runny- gases bubble out quietly
  37. a single area of flat rock that can be pushed up due to forces underground
  38. this technology uses sound waves to map the ocean floor
  39. the channel through which magma flows to the surface in a volcano
  40. another of Wegener’s evidence was that ___ tracks have been found in Africa and __ fossils in Antarctica- showing climate change
  41. this transform fault is a famous one running through California

81 Clues: stress that stretches rock • stress that compresses rock • the lower part of the mantle • name for a collapsed volcano • the upper part of the mantle • these cause the plates to move • a ___ ___ is where 2 plates meet • where magma collects in a volcano • a fold in the rock that arches up • cooling lava forms this type of rock • Wegener’s supercontinent was called this • ...

Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Practice 2025-12-12

Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Practice crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The region where two tectonic plates meet; interactions here (convergent, divergent, transform) produce earthquakes, volcanism, and mountain building.
  2. extremely deep areas in the ocean that are created when one tectonic plate is pushed below another.
  3. The thicker, less dense crust that makes up the continents; composed mainly of granitic rocks and generally older than oceanic crust.
  4. A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally, commonly generating strike-slip earthquakes.
  5. The thinner, denser type of Earth’s crust that forms most ocean floor; primarily basaltic in composition and continually created at mid-ocean ridges.
  6. The process by which new oceanic crust forms at mid-ocean ridges as magma rises, cools, and pushes older crust away from the ridge, driving plate motion.
  7. Vibration or shaking of the ground, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
  8. A large, mobile slab of lithosphere that carries continental and/or oceanic crust and interacts with other plates at its boundaries.
  9. a crack in Earth's surface caused by moving tectonic plates
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  1. The slow, heat-driven circulation of mantle material that transfers thermal energy and exerts forces on the base of tectonic plates, contributing to their motion.
  2. A plate boundary where two plates move apart from each other; often associated with seafloor spreading, mid-ocean ridges, and formation of new oceanic crust.
  3. A convergent boundary where one plate (usually oceanic) sinks beneath another into the mantle, leading to deep ocean trenches, intense earthquakes, and volcanic arcs.
  4. A ductile, partially molten region of the upper mantle beneath the lithosphere that allows tectonic plates to move because it can flow slowly.
  5. The rigid outer layer of Earth composed of the crust and the uppermost mantle; it is broken into tectonic plates that move relative to one another.
  6. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other; this can produce subduction zones, continental collisions, volcanic arcs, and mountain ranges.
  7. a mountain or hill with a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being (or have been) erupted from the earth's crust.
  8. An underwater mountain chain formed at divergent boundaries where upwelling magma creates new oceanic crust and elevated topography along the spreading center.
  9. The pattern of symmetrical, alternating magnetic polarity recorded in oceanic crust on either side of mid-ocean ridges; evidence for seafloor spreading and past geomagnetic reversals.
  10. The unifying theory that explains the large-scale motions of Earth’s lithosphere through interactions of tectonic plates, accounting for the distribution of earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain ranges, and oceanic
  11. Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus

20 Clues: a crack in Earth's surface caused by moving tectonic plates • Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus • extremely deep areas in the ocean that are created when one tectonic plate is pushed below another. • Vibration or shaking of the ground, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. • ...

chapter seven 2021-10-22

chapter seven crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
  2. Two plates sliding past each other convergent/plate-boundary two or more lithospheric plates collide subduction
  3. is a continent that split
  4. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
  5. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
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  1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. is the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time
  3. is the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
  4. state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects
  5. lithosphere comprises a number of plates
  6. the pulling force exerted by a cold, dense oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
  7. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading
  8. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise
  9. sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion

15 Clues: is a continent that split • lithosphere comprises a number of plates • two tectonic plates move away from each other • sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion • rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. • ...

chapter seven 2021-10-22

chapter seven crossword puzzle
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  1. Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
  2. Two plates sliding past each other convergent/plate-boundary two or more lithospheric plates collide subduction
  3. is a continent that split
  4. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
  5. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
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  1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. is the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time
  3. is the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
  4. state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects
  5. lithosphere comprises a number of plates
  6. the pulling force exerted by a cold, dense oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
  7. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading
  8. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise
  9. sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion

15 Clues: is a continent that split • lithosphere comprises a number of plates • two tectonic plates move away from each other • sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion • rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. • ...

Tectonic Plates Crossword 2016-09-21

Tectonic Plates Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. A Neoproterozoic supercontinent that was assembled 1.3 - 0.9 billion years ago and broke up 750 - 600 million years ago.
  2. A small area or region with a relatively hot temperature in comparison to its surroundings.
  3. Tectonics A scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth's lithosphere.
  4. Rim The countries and regions bordering the Pacific Ocean, especially the small nations of eastern Asia.
  5. An actively deforming region where two or more tectonic plates move toward another and collide.
  6. A mild tremor preceding the violent shaking movement of an earthquake.
  7. Rifting The belt or zone of the continental lithosphere where the extensional deformation is occurring.
  8. An extended break in a body of rock, marked by the relative displacement and discontinuity of strata on either side of a particular surface.
  9. Activity Relating to or occurring within the interior of a tectonic plate.
  10. Boundaries An area on the margins of tectonic plates where seismic, volcanic, and tectonic activity takes place as a consequence of the relative motion of the plates.
  11. A supercontinent comprising all the continental crust of the earth, postulated to have existed in late Paleozoic and Mesozoic times before it broke into Gondwana and Laurasia.
  12. Currents A current in a fluid that results from convection.
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  1. A linear feature that exists between tectonics plates that are moving away from each other.
  2. The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  3. Upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
  4. Faults A strike-slip fault occurring at the boundary between two plates of the earth's crust.
  5. The point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
  6. A very large igneous intrusion extending deep in the earth's crust.
  7. Rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  8. The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks.
  9. Spreading The formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
  10. Form into a hard outer layer:

22 Clues: Form into a hard outer layer: • Currents A current in a fluid that results from convection. • A very large igneous intrusion extending deep in the earth's crust. • A mild tremor preceding the violent shaking movement of an earthquake. • Rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • ...

Geological Oceanography Crossword 2025-01-06

Geological Oceanography Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Vents on the seafloor that release hot, nutrient-rich water
  2. A specific ridge formed by the divergence of tectonic plates
  3. Sudden movements caused by shifting tectonic plates
  4. Process where one tectonic plate moves beneath another
  5. Large sections of Earth’s crust that move over the mantle
  6. Pacific region known for frequent tectonic activity
  7. Deepest parts of the ocean, formed by subduction zones
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  1. Large waves caused by underwater earthquakes or volcanic eruptions
  2. Layer of the Earth where convection drives plate movement
  3. Underwater mountain ranges formed by diverging plates
  4. The rigid outer layer of Earth, broken into tectonic plates
  5. Underwater volcanoes that rise above the ocean floor
  6. Molten rock that rises to form new oceanic crust
  7. The theory explaining the movement of Earth’s plates

14 Clues: Molten rock that rises to form new oceanic crust • Sudden movements caused by shifting tectonic plates • Pacific region known for frequent tectonic activity • Underwater volcanoes that rise above the ocean floor • The theory explaining the movement of Earth’s plates • Underwater mountain ranges formed by diverging plates • ...

Matt Sieg 2015-04-30

Matt Sieg crossword puzzle
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  1. an instrument for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, especially the earth's magnetic field.
  2. Changes in direction or orientation of the magnetic field of the Earth that have occurred from time to time.
  3. Geology. the lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates.
  4. a theory in geology: the lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of plates which float on and travel independently over the mantle and much of the earth's
  5. a portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction. Plate motion is partly driven by the weight of cold, dense plates sinking into the mantle at trenches.
  6. a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics. Because mid-ocean ridges lie at a higher elevation than the rest of the ocean floor, gravity causes the ridge to push on the lithosphere that lies farther from the ridge.
  7. is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  8. the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined, from about 300 to 200 million years ago.
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  1. Geology. the process by which collision of the earth's crustal plates results in one plate's being drawn down or overridden by another, localized along the juncture (subduction zone) of two plates.
  2. Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
  3. a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.
  4. is a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly
  5. a line on an isotope ratio diagram denoting a suite of rock or mineral samples all formed at the same time. The slope of the line is related to the age of the rock or mineral suite
  6. a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  7. a subsea chasm extending along the crest of a mid-ocean ridge, locus of the magma upwellings that accompany seafloor spreading.

15 Clues: is a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly • Geology. the lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates. • is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. • an instrument for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, especially the earth's magnetic field. • ...

Convection Currents in the Mantle Crossword Puzzle 2021-04-13

Convection Currents in the Mantle Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. What we walk one;solid rock
  2. part of the mantle; looks like crust
  3. Example: How heat is transmitted
  4. mass of a unit volume
  5. 2/3 the mass of earth
  6. smallest unit of matter
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  1. Example: the sun
  2. tectonics massive; causes continents to move
  3. densest layer of earth
  4. Example: when you're boiling water

10 Clues: Example: the sun • mass of a unit volume • 2/3 the mass of earth • densest layer of earth • smallest unit of matter • What we walk one;solid rock • Example: How heat is transmitted • Example: when you're boiling water • part of the mantle; looks like crust • tectonics massive; causes continents to move

The Earth 2022-10-26

The Earth crossword puzzle
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  1. the ocean floor.
  2. The thinnest layer of the earth.
  3. makes up our continents.
  4. between the thermosphere and the stratosphere.
  5. has a liquid part and a solid part.
  6. Convection currents in the _____ drive plate tectonics.
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  1. rigid, rocky outer layer of the Earth.
  2. puddy like.
  3. mostly made of iron.
  4. is about 4000-5000 degrees Celsius.

10 Clues: puddy like. • the ocean floor. • mostly made of iron. • makes up our continents. • The thinnest layer of the earth. • is about 4000-5000 degrees Celsius. • has a liquid part and a solid part. • rigid, rocky outer layer of the Earth. • between the thermosphere and the stratosphere. • Convection currents in the _____ drive plate tectonics.

MOLTEN MIGHTY 2024-11-06

MOLTEN MIGHTY crossword puzzle
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  1. molten rock beneath the earth's
  2. are subterranean reservior containing molten silicate fluid
  3. the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges
  4. a chain of volcanoes that forms along a convergent plate boundary
  5. can be very hot,reaching temperatures of over 1,000 degrees celsius
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  1. a deep, underwater valley form where two plate tectonics move apart
  2. visible manifestations of the process of rock formation
  3. The earth's crust is made out of large, moving plates
  4. The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
  5. the outermost solid shell of a planet
  6. can erupt from volcano
  7. magma is often compared to a thick gooey substance
  8. a layer inside a planetary body
  9. Solidification of magma forms
  10. a boundary between two plates that move away from each other

15 Clues: can erupt from volcano • Solidification of magma forms • molten rock beneath the earth's • a layer inside a planetary body • the outermost solid shell of a planet • the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges • magma is often compared to a thick gooey substance • The earth's crust is made out of large, moving plates • ...

Layers of the Earth 2025-05-28

Layers of the Earth crossword puzzle
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  1. innermost layer of the Earth (2 words)
  2. based on physical properties and behavior
  3. Key
  4. compositional layer made of silicate rocks
  5. Waves
  6. metal layer responsible for Earth's magnetic field (2 words)
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  1. used by scientists to study Earth's interior (2 words)
  2. outer layer comprising the crust and upper mantle
  3. outermost layer where life exists
  4. that flows slowly, enabling plate tectonics
  5. layer beneath the lithosphere allowing tectonic movement
  6. Core
  7. Core

13 Clues: Key • Core • Core • Waves • outermost layer where life exists • innermost layer of the Earth (2 words) • based on physical properties and behavior • compositional layer made of silicate rocks • that flows slowly, enabling plate tectonics • outer layer comprising the crust and upper mantle • used by scientists to study Earth's interior (2 words) • ...

cst review 2013-04-29

cst review crossword puzzle
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  1. which type of volcano would be the least explosive?
  2. the surface of plant mercury and moon contain some verylarge craters that are most likely the result of
  3. the convergence of two continental plate would produce
  4. what energy resource is made possible by the volcanic activity in California?
  5. which of the following energy sources is most likely to be abundant in California due to its position on plate boundery?
  6. a rift valley is evidence of which kind of plate boundary?
  7. stars begin their life cycle in
  8. the youngest rocks on the ocean floor are typically located near what feature?
  9. which planet was formed from the light gases of the outer solar nebula?
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  1. whinch of the following provides evidence for plate tectonics?
  2. geothermal energy is possible where there is
  3. the richter scalemeasures which of the following earthquakes characteristics?
  4. the sun is an average yellow star in the milky way galaxy, which is described as
  5. the final stage of a star's existence is determined stars will end their lives as
  6. what is the source of energy for the sun?
  7. relative cooling rates of igneous intrusive rocks can be estimated by comparing rocks'
  8. earthquake vibrations are detected, measures, and recorded by instuments called

17 Clues: stars begin their life cycle in • what is the source of energy for the sun? • geothermal energy is possible where there is • which type of volcano would be the least explosive? • the convergence of two continental plate would produce • a rift valley is evidence of which kind of plate boundary? • whinch of the following provides evidence for plate tectonics? • ...