Cycling Matter and Energy Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. The process of wind, rain, ice and other factors breaking large rocks into smaller pieces called sediments.
  2. 3. a process during which one type of rock changes into another type of rock through geologic processes.
  3. 5. A naturally occurring substance that takes a solid, crystal form and is made of only a single type of compound
  4. 7. rock that formed when magma or lava cooled and crystallized on or below Earth's surface.
  5. 9. Hot, molten rock inside Earth
  6. 11. Rock formed from other rock that has been exposed over a long time to heat and pressure and has changed into different rock.
  7. 12. The movement of soil, rock, or rock fragments, often created by weathering, from one place to another by water or wind.
Down
  1. 2. A piece of Earth's crust that according to plate tectonics, is pushed by movement in the asthenosphere.
  2. 4. The process by which heat is transferred directly from one material to another.
  3. 6. Naturally forming material that is usually made of up to two or more distinct
  4. 8. Rock that forms over time as sediments become compacted and cemented together.
  5. 10. Tiny pieces of broken rocks that have been weathered by rain, wind, snow, plant roots, or other environmental agents.