Quiz 3 already??!
Across
- 2. One of the principles of relative dating that says the oldest rocks are on the bottom
- 5. Large boulder left behind when glaciers retreated
- 6. Time required for half of the nuclei of an isotope to decay
- 10. Scratch in rock caused by abrasion from glaciers
- 11. A break in time between different layers of sedimentary rock that resembles a bedding plane
- 12. Characteristic shape of valley formed by streams
- 14. Egg shaped hill formed when ice reworks till
- 16. Granular compacted snow
- 18. Moraine deposits at the furthest extent of a glacier
- 19. Ice core formed over a drained lake
- 21. Unsorted debris deposited directly by a glacier
- 23. Permafrost formation that forms network of troughs and polygons (2 words)
Down
- 1. Represents a break in time
- 3. Part of permafrost that thaws (and refreezes) annually (2 words)
- 4. Mound of till deposited at the end and sides of glaciers
- 7. Elements that have different atomic masses (pl.)
- 8. Zone of glacier where ice is lost by melting and evaporation
- 9. Subsidence of huge areas of land due to permafrost melting (3 words)
- 13. organisms believed to be responsible for oxygenating our atmosphere (pl.)
- 15. Unconformity between igneous or metamorphic rock and sedimentary
- 17. Fracture in crust along which appreciable displacement has taken place
- 18. Area that remains unfrozen under a lake
- 20. Long winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel to due movement of water through tunnels in the ice
- 22. the current geological era, which began 65 million years ago