Fall Geology PCC CrossWord

6. similar to a bluff any steep or perpendicular overhang
7. a bowl like hollow on the top of glacial mountains by carved by erosive glaciers.
8. – The wearing down of top layers of earth by wind, moving ice, or running water.
9. the solid rock under soil and other material, sometimes exposed at the surface.
12. snow, ice, soil, or rock, or mixture, falling or sliding by the force of gravity
14. like a mesa or plateau a hill with a flat top that is wider than the hill is tall.
15. the breaking apart/splitting of rock or soil by the force of expanding freezing water in cracks or pores.
16. – like a lagoon, where the mouth of a fresh water river meets seawater, affected by tides.

1. the landform made by mudflows of volcaniclastic debris on or near the base of a volcano.
2. a long deep slit cut primarily in bedrock with high steep walls.
3. a crack in the earth to a volcanic conduit, through which lava can rise up.
4. The part of a hillside or mountainside that sheds, creating a bare steep outcrop of bare rock.
5. the flat area around streams that floods when the river overruns.
6. a round hole made by volcanic vents, but is much wider than those vents
10. the power/strength current of water or wind to move grains of sediment/soil
11. a large frozen river or ice and crystalized snow creeping down-slope or growing outward in all directions under the pressure of its own weight.
13. like a steep walled estuary, this ocean inlet gets deeper further inland.