Rock Cycle Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 7. The liquid spewing out of a volcano
- 8. The diameter of individual grains of sediment
- 10. The liquid inside a volcano
- 11. Forms from evaporating saline waters
- 13. Rocks produced from rock fragments
- 15. Medium Viscosity
- 18. General term for processes converting loose sediment into sedimentary rock
- 20. Settling and coming to rest of transported material
- 23. Forms when pressure is uniform, or near the surface where pressure is very low. Ex:Quartz and Calcite
- 24. Low Viscosity
- 25. Formed inside of the Earth
- 27. High Viscosity
- 28. The flow/thickness of a liquid
- 29. Rocks produced by the precipitation of dissolved ions in water
- 31. An igneous rock, wherein the magma had originally cooled, solidified, and crystalized underground
- 32. A 4-letter word to describe what fire gives off
Down
- 1. A rock composed of large sharp-angled fragments embedded in a fine-grained matrix of smaller particles or mineral cement
- 2. The use of persuasion, influence, or intimidation to make someone do something
- 3. The movement of material across the Earth's surface by water, wind, ice, or gravity
- 4. The process of splitting into thin sheets or laminae
- 5. A metamorphic version of shale
- 6. Rocks produced by the accumulation of biological debris, such as in swamps or bogs
- 9. Formed from on the outside of the Earth
- 12. A mineral that makes up rocks that also make silicon
- 14. Contains carbon dioxide as part of their chemical composition
- 16. What follows weathering which moves the weathered object
- 17. What breaks down the rock
- 19. Metamorphism that occurs over broad areas of the crust
- 21. A common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock
- 22. A sedimentary rock with oil trapped in it
- 26. Metamorphism due to contact with or proximity to an igneous intrusion
- 30. A clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts