Mountains and Rocks
Across
- 2. A rock that is made of sediments that have been naturally compacted and cemented together.
- 3. A rock that forms when minerals in igneous, sedimentary, or older metamorphic rocks are changed due to extreme heat and pressure.
- 5. Mountains generally formed when magma pushes upward into Earth's crust from the mantle and cools into igneous rock underground, causing the crust above it to bulge; usually occur as isolated mountains on otherwise flat plains.
- 7. Mountains formed when gigantic blocks of rock move up and down along faults.
Down
- 1. Mountains formed when rocks are pushed up into huge folds by moving tectonic plates.
- 4. A rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies.
- 6. A crack in the Earth's crust.