Earth Science--Our Earth
Across
- 2. Rock that behaves like something between a liquid and a solid
- 6. Rock that forms when moleten rock called magma cools
- 7. Powder left on a plate by a mineral
- 8. Evaporation of water from plants
- 9. The tendency of a mineral to break along a regular, well-defined plane
- 11. Rock that forms when sedimentary or igneous rock is changed as a result of temperature and pressure
- 15. Any process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment
- 18. A simple visual way to identify minerals
- 19. The process by which water is continuously exchanged between Earth's various water sources
- 21. Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
- 23. Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components
- 24. Describes how the surface of a mineral reflects light
- 25. The section of the earth that is made up of super-hot rock that is forced into solid form under pressure
Down
- 1. A series of processes in which forces within Earth and at the surface cause rocks to continuously change from one type to another
- 3. When rocks are broken down by chemical reactions in the rock
- 4. Small, solid fragments of rock-like gravel
- 5. The sum of all water on a planet
- 10. The section of the earth that is made up of liquid rock (magma)
- 12. When the atoms in a mineral are arranged in a specific geometric shape
- 13. The physical process of breaking rock into smaller fragments
- 14. The ability of a mineral to break apart
- 16. A minerals ability to resist being scratched
- 17. The process that moves sediments
- 18. The Section of the earth that is visible, studyable, and on the surface of the earth
- 20. naturally-occurring, inorganic, substances that have a definite chemical composition and a crystalline structure
- 22. rocks formed when pressure and chemical reactions cement sediment together