Shaylen Cannon’s Geology Crossword Review

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Across
  1. 2. Process by which sediment is solidified into sedimentary rock.
  2. 3. Formed by the remains of land plants.
  3. 5. A variety of heavy liquid hydrocarbon compounds
  4. 6. The point on the ground surface directly above where an earthquake starts.
  5. 11. Most abundant element in the lithosphere.
  6. 12. Type of plate boundary where the plates move away from each other.
  7. 13. Physical removal and transport of rock and soil by wind, water, and ice.
  8. 14. Naturally occurring solid that is composed of one or more minerals.
  9. 15. Type of process when igneous rocks form when magma erupts at the surface and rapidly cools.
  10. 16. The volume of water that flows by a specific point.
  11. 17. Fractures in rocks created by tectonic processes where there has been movement on both sides.
Down
  1. 1. Type of pressure that is applied from all directions.
  2. 4. The plastic-like Earth layer that tectonic plates “ride around” on.
  3. 7. Type of fossils that are widespread geographically but are limited to a short period of geological time.
  4. 8. Most of geologic time is in this period.
  5. 9. The land area drained by a stream and its estuaries.
  6. 10. Type of minerals that are most common in the Earth’s crust.