Environmental Science - Geosphere

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Across
  1. 3. Type of synthetic material that is usually made from petroleum
  2. 6. A naturally-occurring inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an ordered atomic arrangement
  3. 8. Movement beneath Earth's surface that has led to the creation of mountains
  4. 9. The type of mining that involves digging shafts into the ground
  5. 11. The process of converting electromagnetic energy (light) into chemical energy to create complex, organic molecules
  6. 12. The type of natural resource fossil fuels are
Down
  1. 1. The gas animals breathe out and producers take in
  2. 2. The simplest type of hydrocarbon; what natural gas is mostly made of
  3. 4. A pure substance determined by the number of protons in its nucleus; carbon, gold, and praseodymium are examples
  4. 5. A rock that can be profitably mined
  5. 7. The element the minerals graphite and diamond are made of
  6. 10. Coal, Natural Gas, and Oil are examples
  7. 11. Partially-decayed vegetation; coal was once this