Weathering and Erosion by Alice

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Across
  1. 1. a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body.
  2. 3. the top of the earth's crust
  3. 5. persistent body of dense ice that is
  4. 6. a small river
  5. 10. solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.
  6. 11. rock-fall is a quantity of rock that has fallen freely from a cliff
  7. 13. breaking down rock and minerals
  8. 15. dirt
  9. 16. H2O
  10. 17. mountains that are short and smooth
  11. 18. a slanted area
  12. 19. free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.
  13. 20. the force down
  14. 21. water moving that causes weathering
  15. 24. moving under its own weigh
  16. 25. a fluid or hardened stream or avalanche of mud.
  17. 27. the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.
Down
  1. 2. mountains that are tall and pointed
  2. 4. water reactions with minerals and rock
  3. 7. a large body of water flows
  4. 8. physical force weathering
  5. 9. rain laced with chemicals
  6. 12. plants breaking down rocks
  7. 13. air movement break down rocks
  8. 14. creatures digging burrows cause weathering
  9. 16. ice getting in the rock cracks and expanding
  10. 18. a granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles
  11. 21. the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth
  12. 22. the path that a river or stream follows
  13. 23. a scalar quantity of size
  14. 25. a naturally occurring inorganic element
  15. 26. covered or saturated with water