#smileforthepic
Across
- 2. A solid thing that is non-living and is in the ground
- 3. Dark colored organic material in soil
- 6. A wind formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt
- 8. A mass of rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope
- 9. A deposit that hangs from the ceiling of a cave
- 11. Characteristics of a material that is full of tiny connected air spaces that water can seep through
- 12. The loose weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants can grow
- 14. Soil organism that breaks down the remains of organisms and digests them
- 18. Very slow downhill movement of rock and soil
- 20. The grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried by water, wind, ice
Down
- 1. rich, fertile soil that is made up of about equal parts of clay, sand, and silt
- 4. The layer of soil beneath the topsoil that contains mostly clay and other minerals
- 5. the topmost layer of the soil
- 7. the loose layer of dead plant leaves and stems on the surface of the soil
- 10. A type of movement of water in which rather moving downstream the water moves from every which way
- 13. The chemical and physical process that break down rock at Earth's surface
- 15. any living thing
- 16. The process by which a glacier pick up rocks as it moves over land
- 17. Holds us to the earth
- 19. The solid layer of rock beneath the soil