Across
- 2. continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it
- 5. is produced when magma exits and cools above (or very near) the Earth's surface
- 7. denoting or relating to rock that has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, or other natural agencies
- 9. an idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion.
- 10. a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body
- 12. a very hard, granular, crystalline, igneous rock consisting mainly of quartz, mica, and feldspar and often used as a building stone.
- 13. the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth
Down
- 1. types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation
- 3. relating to sediment
- 4. metamorphic forces applied to existing rocks to transform them into metamorphic rocks
- 6. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.
- 8. the process of forming crystals
- 11. Center of our solar system
