Rocks and Minerals

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Across
  1. 2. and cementation the process of sediments being packed down and sticking together
  2. 6. Rock forms from melting and cooling of molten rock
  3. 7. not made of living matter
  4. 11. a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence
  5. 13. what a substance is made of
  6. 14. characteristics used to describe an object Including color, luster, hardness and texture
  7. 17. chemical and physical processes that break down rocks at earth’s surface
  8. 18. loose materials such as rock fragments, mineral grains and bits of shell that have been moved by wind, water, ice or gravity
Down
  1. 1. forms when magma rises up and cools inside the earth
  2. 3. Rock forms from heat and pressure
  3. 4. process in which sediment is laid down in new locations
  4. 5. a mineral's resistance to being scratched
  5. 8. made of living matter
  6. 9. forms when lava cools on the earth’s surface
  7. 10. a person who studies rocks and minerals
  8. 12. Cycle series of processes that changes rock from one type into another
  9. 15. process by which rock are broken down and carried away
  10. 16. rock forms when particles from other rocks or plant/ animal remains that are pressed and cemented together