Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
Across
- 5. Water erosion picks up and moves ____ sediment.
- 6. Earth is made of dozens of plates deep below the ____.
- 8. Erosion is a ____ process that carries rock and sediment from one place to another.
- 12. Gravity can pull rock and sediment down hills and mountains known as a ____.
- 14. Erosion can take place by wind, water, ice or ____.
Down
- 1. The constructive formation of ____ are caused by plate collisions.
- 2. ____ is the laying down or settling of eroded material.
- 3. _____ is the process that breaks down rocks and other substances at earth's surface.
- 4. When water ____ in a crack in a rock, it expands and makes the crack bigger.
- 7. Sediment is the small, weathered remains of ____.
- 9. ____ are a landform that forms from the deposition of sediment carried by a river into a larger body of water.
- 10. Roots of trees and other ____ enter cracks in rocks.
- 11. ____ are created from the action of wind and water depositing sand along the coast.
- 13. Overtime, the root of even ____ plants can pry open the cracks in rocks and make them bigger.