Across
- 3. A solid inorganic substance of natural coccurance
- 5. A hard, solid organ that forms part of a skeleton
- 6. The time period where about 96% of marine species and 75% of land species went extinct
- 7. Another word for fossilization
- 11. A layer made up of sedimentary rock with some characteristics, for example colour, grain size or type of rock
- 13. Profession who studies fossils
- 15. Time period where about 50% of fish, sponges and corals disappeared
- 18. The coccurance of the wearing away of label
- 19. A duration of time that lasts a certain amount of time
Down
- 1. The time period where about 70% of all marine species went extinct
- 2. Source of energy, for example lightning
- 4. Eruption of lava and ash
- 8. The extinction of an entire species
- 9. Adapting to changed lifestyles, occurs over a large period of time
- 10. Period of time where all dinosaurs went extinct
- 11. Formed by the deposition of eroded materials
- 12. Remains of an organism that has been preserved in sedimentary rock
- 13. Result to force applied in a perpendicular fashion to a surface
- 14. The time period where about 50% of all animal species went extinct
- 16. A group of living organisms consisting of similar individual capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
- 17. Large ball of hot gas that sends out UV rays
