Science Vocabulary
Across
- 2. everything made of rock: magma, sediment, and all rock types
- 3. the process by which rock material moves under Earth’s outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion
- 6. the process of sediment being glued together
- 7. one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer
- 8. the movement of sediment from one place to another,often caused by wind
- 11. the process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces due to wind of moving water
- 12. anything that has mass and takes up space
- 13. the process of sediment being buried and pressed together
- 18. the rock type formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rockMineral one of many different types of matter that makes up rock
- 19. the process by which all the rock formations of a region are pushed up due to plate motion
Down
- 1. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- 4. a region of rock that formed together as a single rock
- 5. a place where two plates meet
- 9. the rock type formed when sediment is pressed and glued together
- 10. the ability to make things move or change
- 14. the rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid
- 15. hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth
- 16. small pieces of rock
- 17. a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like