Across
- 5. waves of energy
- 7. instruments used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake
- 11. travel through inner layers of the earth
- 13. known as rock salt
- 15. sediments are move along by the moving agents
- 16. outer solid part of the earth
- 18. breaking down of rock in lithosphere
- 19. form by solidification of molten rock
- 20. magma cools fast in the surface of the earth to form extrusive rock.
- 21. laying down of sediments
- 24. source of the earth's internal heat
- 25. most common mineral on earth
- 27. metamorphic rock is subject to extreme heat and pressure and turns into magma
- 28. a term used for a very large group of minerals
- 29. known as volcanic
- 30. travel through surface of the earth
Down
- 1. form by transformations of preexisting rocks
- 2. process by which a solid forms, where the atoms or molecules are highly organized into a structure known as a crystal.
- 3. hardest mineral
- 4. known as the compositional layer
- 6. compaction and cementation
- 8. common sedimentary rock component
- 9. any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds.
- 10. largest layer of the earth
- 12. compounds of metallic cations and oxygen
- 14. concept used to explain how the three basic rock types are related
- 17. outermost layer of the earth
- 22. worn away soil and rock particles
- 23. known as plutonic
- 26. a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence