Science Words Crossword
Across
- 2. the traces of living things
- 6. water that flows over the surface rather than soaking into the ground
- 8. an animal without a backbone
- 10. sediment is laid down in new locations
- 12. a scientist who studies fossils
- 13. a looplike bend in the course of a river
- 15. a gap in the geologic time record
- 18. the distance in degrees north or south of the equator
- 19. a ridge formed by the till deposited at the end of a glacier
Down
- 1. dark-colored organic material in soil
- 3. the layer of dead plant leaves on the surface of the soil
- 4. a landform with high elevation
- 5. energy that is stored & waiting to be used later
- 7. sediments deposited directly by a glacier
- 9. eats dead animals & organisms
- 11. a beach that formed by longshore drift
- 14. wind erosion that removes surface materials
- 16. a large channel in soil formed by erosion
- 17. the solid layer of rock beneath the soil
- 20. a large stream