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Can you unscramble these 'geolograms' to find key words and phrases associated with plate tectonics? Numbers in brackets refer to the number of words and letters in the answer.
  1. BOUNCES UNDO ZIT(10, 4)
  2. PROOFREADING SEALS(3, 5, 9)
  3. CHICANE CORNET(7, 6)
  4. CANVAS TOOL ROT (13)
  5. BEIGE CONTROL(8, 4)
  6. OPALESCENT MODERNISM(6, 13)
  7. EMAIL PRATTLING(7, 7)
  8. ETHER POLISH(11)
  9. VAGRANCIES SMELTER(8, 9)
  10. POSH TOTS(3, 5)
  11. RESHAPEHONEST(13)
  12. CAESARIAN VELVET TROMPING(12, 5, 7)
  13. TRANSLATOR MUFF(9, 5)
  14. ALPS BULL(4, 4)
  15. CARAVAN CLINIC SOLD(8, 6, 3)
  16. GLACIATED RID MINT(3, 8, 5)
  17. CONCOCT INVERT NURSE(10, 8)
  18. BONE FEZ INFO(7, 4)
  19. LOCALIZE INCONTINENT LOONS(11, 9, 4)
  20. A PINBALL SAYS(7, 5)
  21. VIAL WALLOPS(6, 5)
  22. IDEA SENT(8)
  23. SURGED HIP(5, 4)
  24. A HAMMERING METROPOLIS(8, 12)
  25. MEAL MELT PUN(6, 5)
  26. PERUSES FRUITION(7, 8)
  27. ANIMATING MANIOC TOMCAT(8, 13)
  28. ANATOMICAL GLEE POPE(6, 8, 4)
  29. ADVANCE LOWER PURRING(5, 9, 5)
  30. DAD GONNA LAWN(12)
  31. AURA SAIL(8)
  32. APE NAG(6)
  33. CLICHE THE PRUNER (4, 5, 6)
  34. PARTIAL UNEASE(8, 5)
  35. ANCHOVIES DOLL(6, 7)
  36. FRAT EVILLY(4, 6)
  37. IRE HOTLY(8)
  38. ARABLE TONIGHT HIT(7, 9)
  39. NEGATED MEWL(6, 5)
  40. TIDIER POET(10)

Did you get all of them? See how many you answered correctly - click here to reveal the answers below.

  1. Subduction Zone(10, 4)
  2. Sea Floor Spreading(3, 5, 9)
  3. Oceanic Trench(7, 6)
  4. Stratovolcano(13)
  5. Orogenic Belt(8, 4)
  6. Mantle Decompression(6, 13)
  7. Partial Melting(7, 7)
  8. Lithosphere(11)
  9. Magnetic Reversals(8, 9)
  10. Hot Spots(3, 5)
  11. Asthenosphere(13)
  12. Conservative Plate Margin(12, 5, 7)
  13. Transform Fault(9, 5)
  14. Slab Pull(4, 4)
  15. Volcanic Island Arc(8, 6, 3)
  16. Mid Atlantic Ridge(3, 8, 5)
  17. Convection Currents(10, 8)
  18. Benioff Zone(7, 4)
  19. Continental Collision Zone(11, 9, 4)
  20. Abyssal Plain(7, 5)
  21. Pillow Lavas(6, 5)
  22. Andesite(8)
  23. Ridge Push(5, 4)
  24. Regional Metamorphism(8, 12)
  25. Mantle Plume(6, 5)
  26. Fissure Eruption(7, 8)
  27. Magmatic Contamination(8, 13)
  28. Palaeo Magnetic Pole(6, 8, 4)
  29. Polar Wandering Curve(5, 9, 5)
  30. Gondwanaland(12)
  31. Laurasia(8)
  32. Pangea(6)
  33. Peru Chile Trench(4, 5, 6)
  34. Eurasian Plate(8, 5)
  35. Shield Volcano(6, 7)
  36. Rift Valley(4, 6)
  37. Rhyolite(8)
  38. Granite Batholith(7, 9)
  39. Mantle Wedge(6, 5)
  40. Peridotite(10)