6SCI - CH 2 REVIEW

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Across
  1. 3. also known as horizon A, where most plants germinate and grow roots
  2. 5. a type of erosion when water transports sediment
  3. 6. small particles produced by weathering
  4. 7. a type of erosion along shorelines caused by pounding ocean waves
  5. 10. a type of weathering, transforming rocks into new substances - oxidation, carbonic acid, acid rain, lichens
  6. 12. also known as horizon B, consists mostly of weathered minerals from the bedrock
  7. 13. the ideal soil mixture, it is especially fertile
  8. 14. the largest kind of particle
Down
  1. 1. when a glacier picks up huge pieces of bedrock
  2. 2. piles of debris left by a melted glacier at the bottom of a mountain
  3. 4. also known as wind erosion, when wind blows, picks up loose sediment and carries it away - types are dust storms and sandstorms
  4. 8. when weathered material moves from one location to another
  5. 9. decayed organic material, part of soil
  6. 10. the smallest kind of particle
  7. 11. a type of erosions when ice formations called glaciers slide down a mountain, picking up pieces of mountain with them