Plate Motion and Rock Transformation
Across
- 2. An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed
- 6. a rock types formed through melting and cooling
- 7. a rock type formed through weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation
- 8. a rock type formed through heat and pressure
- 10. Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away
- 11. any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than other events or objects
- 13. The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
Down
- 1. Any natural process that happens to Earth's surface, such as weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics
- 3. careful use and protection of water resources
- 4. in tectonic plates, the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
- 5. A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.
- 9. Remains of once living organisms show change over time
- 12. A bed or layer of sedimentary rock