Earth History
Across
- 2. When sediments are deposited in flat, horizontal layers.
- 7. Rocks that change due to heat and pressure.
- 8. The final way landforms are shaped.
- 9. __________ ________ allow rock layers to be correlated by age.
- 11. One way landforms are shaped.
- 12. ___________ ______ can reveal information about where a rock formed.
- 14. Some examples of the word are the lithosphere and asthenosphere.
- 16. Lower layers are older than higher layers due to this principle.
- 17. Every place on Earth's surface has a unique geological ___________.
- 18. Deposited over Earth's surface through wind, water, and/or ice.
- 19. Changes rocks to other types of rocks using melting deposition, pressure, and other processes.
Down
- 1. Drives plate tectonics.
- 3. Allow us to infer events and environments on Earth.
- 4. The way things are happening now has happened before and will continue that way.
- 5. _______________ time extends from Earth's origin to modern times.
- 6. Are formed by plate interactions.
- 10. The _________ __________ represents what we know about ancient life.
- 13. The relative ages of rocks can be determined by the _____________ of layers.
- 15. Another way landforms are shaped.