Chapter 9 Crossword

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