Across
- 3. Most particles that form sedimentary rocks are deposited here.
- 4. This type of rock forms when large amounts of heat and pressure are applied to other rock types.
- 5. These rocks are formed when small pieces of rocks, minerlas, plants and animals are deposited in layers.
- 7. The mineral name for table salt.
- 11. This type of plate boundry occurs when 2 plates pull apart.
- 13. This top layer of earth is solid, rocky, and made up of igneous, sedimentary, and metmorphic rocks.
- 15. Mount Rushmore is cared out of this type of rock.
- 17. Part of the continental drift theory, this is the name for a theorized super continent that split apart during the flood.
- 18. Another name for eareth's crust and upper mantle.
- 21. The name given to a zone at the edge of the Pacific Plate where many volcanoes erupt and earthquakes occur.
- 22. This mineral forms when magma cools deep under earth's surface.
- 23. The plate tectonics theory states that the lithosphere is divided into these that float on the mantle.
- 24. This can be ground up to use as baby powder.
- 26. Scientists who study minerals.
- 27. Sedimentary rock is the only type of rock that will contain these.
Down
- 1. Magma that reaches earth's surface.
- 2. Rocks that form from slowly cooling magma are called this.
- 6. During the rock cycle, rocks must be put through tremendous amounts of pressure and heat for them to become this type of rock.
- 8. This type of plate boundry occurs when 2 plates slide past one another.
- 9. This type of rock forms when magam or lava cools and hardens.
- 10. A natural process the transforms one type of rock into another.
- 12. This type of plate boundry occurs when 2 plates collide.
- 14. During the rock cycle, this type of rock forms when wind and water erode small pieces of other rocks away and the particles are compacted or cemented together.
- 16. During the rock cycle, this type of rock forms when one of the other types of rocks melts, cools, and hardens.
- 19. Rocks that form from quickly cooling magma are called this.
- 20. This stands for Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis.
- 25. Solid, inorganic, naturally occuring substances found on earth.
