GEOLOGY
Across
- 2. hill of wind-blown soil deposited over a rock,tree etc.
- 5. finger like intrusion
- 6. generates tremendous amount of energy from nuclear reactions
- 9. uppermost layer:behave as if it were granite
- 10. caused by landslide
- 12. attraction to a magnet
- 13. large intrusions with no definite lower limit
- 15. cresent-shape dune
- 16. wrinkles or bends produced in rocks while they are in plastic state
- 17. provides a due to the internal structure of a mineral
- 20. number of cirques that gnaw into a ridge
- 23. mixture of metallic element and waste mineral
- 26. often red or white, becomes darker when it cools
- 27. formed from hot molten materials through solidification
- 28. ability to absorb light
- 31. indentation
- 33. horizontal intrusion
- 34. it has not erupted for along time
- 36. attacks the mineral,iron bearing minerals
- 37. due to either explosive volcanic activity
- 39. one of the smallest planets
Down
- 1. splitting/breaking along certain planes
- 2. ridge and hills formed when a melting glacier leaves its moraines
- 3. lower layer:behaves as if it were blast
- 4. natural solid materials of the earths crust
- 7. north-south location of any place in earth
- 8. movement of the solid parts of the earth
- 11. earth tremors that accompany faulting movement of great rock masses
- 13. saucer like holes in places the mantle rock is easily removed
- 14. study of the structure and composition of earth
- 18. the extent of the open water across which a wind blows
- 19. a small lake that occupies a glacial cirque
- 21. responsible for picking up rock grains and moving them often
- 22. a fracture on a rocks surface,along which there is displacement of the broken surface
- 24. movement of water along a smooth channel
- 25. divides the earth into to two equal halves
- 29. great island of rock that have been raised above the surface of the crust
- 30. equal length of day and night
- 32. color of a thin layer of the finely powdered minerals
- 35. results of crustal movements
- 38. sandstone is made up of _____