Plate tectonics vocabulary word search find the answer to the clues below. then find the word you wrote in the word find on the next page. clues:  plate - the theory that earth’s crust and upper mantle are broken into sections, called plates that slowly move around on the mantle.

Tectonic plates or plate tectonics

Explanation:

Definition of plate tectonics:

This is a geological theory which states that the earth consist of number of plates which has liquid like substance (lava or magma hot material)in between them that make them float and the move over the mantle and this is where various seismic activity occur. These plates are solid. There are composed of lithospheric material and continental material.

Near these plates it is where the volcanic activity will originate.

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