Rock Formation: Glossary in Google Classroom

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Across
  1. 2. compaction the process of sediment being buried andpressed together
  2. 5. moves under Earth's outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion
  3. 7. a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like
  4. 9. the rock type formed when magma cools and become a solid
  5. 11. one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that makeup Earth’s outer layer
  6. 13. anything that has mass and takes up space
  7. 15. the process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces due to wind or moving water
  8. 17. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  9. 18. one of the many different types of matter that make up rocks
  10. 19. the rock type formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock
  11. 20. the process by which rock
Down
  1. 1. a region of rock that formed together as a single rock type
  2. 3. the rock type formed when sediment is pressed and glued together
  3. 4. the process by which all the rock formations of a region are pushed up due to plate motion
  4. 6. small pieces of rock
  5. 8. everything made of rock magma, sediment, and all rock types
  6. 10. the movement of sedimentfrom one place to another,often caused by wind or flowing water
  7. 12. the process of sediment being glued together
  8. 14. the place where two plates meet
  9. 16. the ability to make things move or change
  10. 19. Hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth