Meadows Sedimentary Rock Crossword

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Across
  1. 7. Pieces of rock collide with each other due to transportation by wind, ice, water, and gravity.
  2. 8. Rocks formed when water dissolves minerals and deposits them elsewhere.
  3. 9. Occurs when oxygen from the air combines with iron-rich minerals of the rock (rust).
  4. 11. Layers of rock peel off the main body of the rock.
  5. 13. When a material is carried away by water, wind, or ice.
  6. 14. The wearing away of soil or rock by water, wind, or ice.
  7. 15. The physical and chemical breakdown of rocks at or near the surface.
  8. 16. As sediment is transported from its source to where it is deposited, the particles collide with each other and with other objects in their path. These collisions cause the particles to change size and shape. This is the "jaggedness" of rocks.
  9. 17. The Mechanical or physical breakdown of rock into smaller pieces (sediments), without a change in the mineral's chemical composition.
  10. 19. Occurs when water combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form carbonic acid.
  11. 20. The process of removing empty spaces between minerals by the weight of overlying sediment.
Down
  1. 1. Soil is formed from the parent material and is of the same composition.
  2. 2. Produced by mechanical weathering and are classified by grain size, sorting, & angularity.
  3. 3. Parent material has been carried from elsewhere and deposited.
  4. 4. The process of "gluing" the compacted minerals together by minerals that filter through the sediment.
  5. 5. The process by which chemicals break down rock through a change in the mineral's composition happens fastest in a hot, moist climate.
  6. 6. Rocks are formed by the action of organisms as they build shells and other body parts by extracting chemical components from the water in which they live.
  7. 10. The tendency for currents of air or water to separate sediments according to size is called sorting. Well-sorted means grains are the same size.
  8. 12. Water freezes in a crack of the rock surface, expanding and splitting the rock
  9. 18. Water combines with minerals such as mica and feldspar found in granite, to form clay, the rock weakens and crumbles apart.