7th Grade Vocabulary Review (February)

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Across
  1. 2. This layer creates Earth's magnetic field
  2. 5. This type of plate boundary occurs where two plates push towards each other
  3. 8. The removal of particles by wind, water, ice, or gravity
  4. 13. A large mass of ice that moves slowly over land
  5. 14. This is the thickest layer of Earth
  6. 15. The process that breaks down rock and other substances at Earth's surface
  7. 16. This type of glacier is long and narrow, and forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley
  8. 18. The process by which sediment settles out of the wind or water carrying it
  9. 19. This type of rock is created when a rock is subjected to heat and pressure
  10. 23. The end of a glacier
  11. 24. A large crater left over from a volcanic eruption
  12. 26. An opening/vent where rocks, steam, gas, and lava erupts from the Earth
Down
  1. 1. This type of metamorphic rock has mineral grains arranged randomly
  2. 3. The San Andreas fault is this type of plate boundary
  3. 4. This type of glacier (also called an ice sheet) covers much of a continent or large island
  4. 6. Soil is made of layers called...
  5. 7. A type of volcanic eruption in which rock and ash are shot up into the air
  6. 9. This type of valley is carved out by a glacier
  7. 10. This type of metamorphic rock has grains arranged in parallel layers
  8. 11. This type of rock is created by layers of particles buried and pressed together
  9. 12. Bedrock is weathered into this before becoming soil
  10. 17. This type of rock is created by volcanic activity
  11. 20. A type of volcanic eruption in which liquid lava pours out of a volcano
  12. 21. A ridge of till deposited at the edges of a glacier
  13. 22. This type of fossil provides a reference used to date rocks and other nearby fossils
  14. 25. This type of plate boundary occurs where two plates move away from each other