Plate Motion and Rock Transformation

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Across
  1. 2. An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed
  2. 6. a rock types formed through melting and cooling
  3. 7. a rock type formed through weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation
  4. 8. a rock type formed through heat and pressure
  5. 10. Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away
  6. 11. any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than other events or objects
  7. 13. The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
Down
  1. 1. Any natural process that happens to Earth's surface, such as weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics
  2. 3. careful use and protection of water resources
  3. 4. in tectonic plates, the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
  4. 5. A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.
  5. 9. Remains of once living organisms show change over time
  6. 12. A bed or layer of sedimentary rock