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