Across
- 1. - earth material that are being carried along by wind and water
- 4. - scientists who study fossils
- 6. record - all the organisms that have existed in Earth’s history that are preserved in rock
- 8. - pure substances that ricks are made of
- 9. - rock that forms our planet’s crust
- 10. - sedimentary rock containing calcite
- 12. - scientists who study the Earth
- 15. - common mineral composed of calcium, carbon and oxygen. It is what reacted to acid.
- 16. - water that carries cement in to the group moving through tiny cracks and spaces between earth materials
- 18. - sedimentary rock containing clay and silt
- 20. - features of the Earth (ex. Mountain, canyon)
- 22. - material that holds particles together to make stone
- 23. - means that the way things happen today is the same way things have happened in the past
- 24. - vertical distance of the lands surface above sea level
- 25. - top layer of Earth’s surface, consisting of rock mineral particles mixed with organic matter
Down
- 1. - rocks that are made out of sediment
- 2. - sedimentary rock containing sand
- 3. - any evidence of past life
- 5. - breaking rocks by rubbing and bumping into each other
- 7. - the process of separating earth materials by size
- 9. - any low place in nature when sediments accumulate
- 11. - removal and transportation of loose earth material
- 13. - a relationship or connection between rock layers from 2 or more locations
- 14. - happens when pressure is applied to a material
- 15. - involves the deposition of cement in the spaces between the particles of sediment
- 17. - word to describe the process of breaking rocks down into smaller pieces
- 19. - settling out of eroded material, usually in a basin
- 21. - animal shells and precipitate sink to the bottom to form this