This Plate Tectonics Word Search is a "Quick Pick" activity meaning you can just download, print, and be ready to go! Students will search for 24 Plate Tectonic related words in all directions including diagonally and backwards. This activity could be used as a review of vocabulary or as an opener to introduce students to upcoming vocabulary.

Both a color and a grayscale version of the puzzle are included to offer printing options. A solution page is also included. Words found in the puzzle are: basin, boundary, continental, convergent, divergent, earthquake, evidence, fault, fossil, lava, magma, mantle, mountains, ocean, Pangea, plate, ridge, rift, subduction, tectonic, transform, trench, volcano, and Wegener.

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