Science Review 2/4/26
Across
- 4. An animal that eats only plants
- 6. The remains or traces of plants or animals that lived long ago
- 8. Large pieces of Earth’s crust that move slowly
- 10. Measured by crest to crest or trough to trough.
- 13. Visible layers of sedimentary rock formed over time
- 15. A mineral's color in powdered form.
- 16. A rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens
- 17. When two objects hit or crash into each other
- 18. The age of something compared to something else
- 21. The process where moved sediment is dropped in a new place
- 22. Is knows as nature's bulldozer.
- 24. A rock that forms when heat or pressure changes an existing rock
- 25. The process where an ecosystem regrows after a disturbance
- 26. A rock that forms from layers of sediment pressed together over time
- 28. A naturally occurring, nonliving solid with a definite chemical makeup and crystal structure
- 29. A mixture of weathered rock organic matter water and air
Down
- 1. A system of connected food chains in an ecosystem
- 2. The way a mineral reflects light
- 3. Weathering that breaks rock without changing it
- 5. An area around the Pacific Ocean with many volcanoes and earthquakes
- 7. The process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces
- 9. The movement of rock and soil by wind, water, ice, or gravity
- 11. Energy of motion
- 12. The transfer of heat through direct contact
- 14. A solid material made of one or more minerals
- 19. Weathering that changes the material of a rock
- 20. Small pieces of rock soil or other materials
- 23. A fossil that lived for a short time and is found in many places
- 27. The height of a wave from it's resting position.