Geo 1 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Characteristic of a material that is full of tiny, connected air spaces that water can seep through.
- 5. the breaking down of rocks
- 7. A large mass of moving ice and snow on land
- 9. A chemical change in which a substance combines with oxygen, as when iron oxidizes, forming rust.
- 10. water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
- 11. The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
Down
- 1. A period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets.
- 2. A principle that states that the same geologic processes shaping the Earth today have been the same throughout the Earth's past.
- 4. Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
- 6. cess that splits rock when water seeps into cracks, then freezes and expands.
- 8. the grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water, ice, or wind