Chapter 9 Crossword
Across
- 5. wearing away of the Earth’s surface followed by the movement to other locations of materials that have worn away
- 8. major division of geologic time
- 9. scientist who studies earthquakes or similar disturbances, and the effect they produce on the Earth’s crust
- 11. movement along a crack or cracks in the Earth’s crust
- 12. bending of rock layers
- 14. warm-blooded vertebrate animal such as humans and whales
Down
- 1. solid rock beneath the soil
- 2. valuable substance that is taken from rocks by mining
- 3. super-continent that included all the Earth’s land masses
- 4. a period of time when freezing temperatures created ice sheet across continents
- 6. a type of rock formed when sedimentary and igneous rocks are subjected to great heat and pressure
- 7. natural and human features of the landscape
- 10. eroded material that is deposited by water, wind, or glacial ice
- 11. imprint in rock of the remains of a plant or animal that lived millions of years ago
- 13. slow-moving mass of ice