Across
- 3. Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it
- 5. Relating to or produced by a volcano or volcanoes
- 8. Rock that has been transformed by heat, pressure, or other natural causes e.g. in the folding of strata or the intrusion of igneous rocks
- 10. The process of being liquified by heat
- 11. Includes all forms of modern life ever heard of (plants, mammals, dinos)
- 17. Rock having solidified from lava or magma
- 18. Layers of rock formed of fragments of other rock that was transported and deposited into water
- 19. A layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust
- 20. The innermost geological layer of the planet Earth
Down
- 1. A planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements
- 2. A material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion
- 4. The gradual destruction of a material due to wind, water, or other natural causes
- 6. Single-celled organism life explodes - beginning of plate tectonics
- 7. Photosynthetic Bacteria and multicellular organisms appear in fossil record
- 9. A layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground
- 12. Earth's transition from a protoplanet to an actual planet - giant fireball
- 13. Any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age
- 14. Molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed; found beneath the surface of the Earth
- 15. The outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite
- 16. Relating to the structure of the Earth's crust and the processes that take place within it
