Across
- 2. This is one of the types of mass wasting that have a slow downhill movement.
- 3. wedging It is a process that involves repeated cycles of freezing and thawing of ice.
- 7. It is a process of changing the characteristics of a rock as a result of changes in temperature, pressure, or reactions with hot fluids
- 9. It is a discernible displacement where rocks grind or slide past each other.
- 12. It fuels the planet’s dynamic processes including plate movements, earthquakes, and volcanism.
- 16. erodibility It is the vulnerability of soil to erosion caused by rainfall intensity soil properties crop cover and slope.
- 17. When magma rises to the crust it can displace the host or country rock to form structures called?
- 18. Refers to transferring of unconsolidated earth’s material via agents like human animal wind and water.
- 19. This is a force that causes hotter less dense material to force itself up through a ridge
- 20. It occurs along the plate boundaries or margins and sometimes within the plate.
Down
- 1. It is a process where there is growth in the size of mineral grains of pre-existing materials
- 4. Known as radioactive dating of hotspots show age differences based on plate movements.
- 5. This is a type of rock formed from preexisting rocks and fossils of organisms
- 6. These are substances that evaporate easily and can exist in gaseous form on the surface of earth
- 8. It is the process of breaking down rocks present at earth’s surface.
- 10. It is the rigid outermost layer of earth that is composed of crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle
- 11. plates These are slabs of the brittle lithosphere which can be able to move due to the plasticity of the underlying asthenosphere
- 13. It is an aggregate of minerals or minerals which may not contain organic matter.
- 14. It is a dynamic planet composed of interacting subsystems, namely: atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and the biosphere.
- 15. it is a hill or mountain where lava pyroclastic materials and gases erupt