Ashton Riggs' Chapter 3 and 4 Crossword
Across
- 1. 544 million years ago/ no backbones
- 2. a rock's age compared to other rocks
- 3. the preserved remains or traces of living things
- 5. a stream that flows into a larger stream
- 6. the ability to do work or cause change
- 9. oldest layer is at bottom
- 11. the process in which sediment is laid down in new locations
- 12. earth's materials deposited by erosion
- 14. fine wind deposited the sediment
- 15. a mass of rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope
- 16. the number of years since the rock formed
- 17. 245 million years ago/ age of dinosaurs
- 19. a very slow down hill movement of rock and soil
- 20. all the remaining water that moves over Earth's surface
- 21. provide evidence of early organisms
- 24. builds from the cave floor
- 27. when rock and soil slide quickly down a steep slope
Down
- 1. minerals make a copy of the organism
- 4. The term geologists use for underground water and can cause chemical weathering
- 7. the land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water
- 8. copy the shape of the organism
- 9. as repeated waves hit the beach, some of the beach sediment moves dow n the beach with the current
- 10. energy the two types of energy are: Kinetic and ________
- 13. high ground between drainage basins
- 18. 6.5 million years ago until today/ age of mammals
- 22. extremely thin coating of coating on a rock
- 23. deposit that hangs from a roof
- 25. the wearing away of rock by a grinding action
- 26. a rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock, and soil