Earth Science Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. atmosphere A layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body
  2. 4. Volcanic rock that is extremely vesicular an glassy
  3. 8. The tendency of a mineral to break along flat surfaces
  4. 9. hydrosphere The total amount of water on a planet
  5. 11. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent throughout which lava, rock fragments, to vapor and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust, hot lava, ash and gases to escape from a magma chamber below
  6. 12. An instrunent used to detect and record earthquakes, such as Europe
  7. 14. The upper layer of earth in which plants grow a block or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and particles
  8. 15. The sum to the sum total of all life on Earth
  9. 17. Change in the appearance or texture by being exposed to the air for a long period of time
  10. 18. The process the removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to a different location
  11. 19. Frost wedging breaker rocks because as water freezes it increases in
Down
  1. 1. Hot fluid or semifluid material below or withhin the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling
  2. 3. the great size or extend of something
  3. 5. a soil inorganic substance of natural occurrence
  4. 6. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes cousing great destruction , as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action
  5. 7. The thinnest section of the earth's crust is found beneath
  6. 9. the basic building blocks of ordinary matter. can join together to form molecules, which in turn form most of the objects around you
  7. 10. The line at which The earth's surface and the sky appear to meet
  8. 13. Changes in rock composition or texture
  9. 16. Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land such as Europe