Across
- 2. atmosphere A layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body
- 4. Volcanic rock that is extremely vesicular an glassy
- 8. The tendency of a mineral to break along flat surfaces
- 9. hydrosphere The total amount of water on a planet
- 11. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent throughout which lava, rock fragments, to vapor and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust, hot lava, ash and gases to escape from a magma chamber below
- 12. An instrunent used to detect and record earthquakes, such as Europe
- 14. The upper layer of earth in which plants grow a block or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and particles
- 15. The sum to the sum total of all life on Earth
- 17. Change in the appearance or texture by being exposed to the air for a long period of time
- 18. The process the removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to a different location
- 19. Frost wedging breaker rocks because as water freezes it increases in
Down
- 1. Hot fluid or semifluid material below or withhin the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling
- 3. the great size or extend of something
- 5. a soil inorganic substance of natural occurrence
- 6. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes cousing great destruction , as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action
- 7. The thinnest section of the earth's crust is found beneath
- 9. the basic building blocks of ordinary matter. can join together to form molecules, which in turn form most of the objects around you
- 10. The line at which The earth's surface and the sky appear to meet
- 13. Changes in rock composition or texture
- 16. Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land such as Europe