Across
- 1. Breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals
- 3. Smaller rock fragments
- 5. Made of sediment (two words)
- 9. Breakdown of rocks by changing its chemical composition (two words)
- 11. Formed by compaction and cementation of clasts made of mineral grains or pieces of rock (three words)
- 13. A rock that transforms with heat and pressure (two words)
- 14. Formed from shells and bodies of underwater organisms (three words)
- 15. A zone of Earth’s mantle lying beneath the lithosphere
Down
- 2. A rock that’s made from cooled lava or magma (two words)
- 4. The rigid, rocky outer layer of Earth
- 6. The laying down of sediment carried by wind, water, or ice
- 7. Made from cooled lava (two words)
- 8. Weathered material
- 10. Made from cooled magma (two words)
- 12. What rocks go through to form and change (two words)
- 16. The gradual destruction of material