Across
- 4. The process of physically breaking down rocks and minerals into smaller pieces (like animals scratching it or when water freezes in cracks of the rock causing the cracks to expand.
- 6. The breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms
- 8. The sphere that contains life/living things
- 11. reacts with the mineral grains in rocks and as a result will cause new minerals to form, such as clay and soluble salts.
- 12. The sphere that contains air & gases
- 14. Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land
- 16. Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or the remains of organisms; earth materials deposited by erosion
Down
- 1. The chemical breakdown of rock. During which new materials are made when the rock comes into contact with either air or water.
- 2. A loop in which a signal or action triggers another signal or action
- 3. The process in which sediment/dirt is laid down in new locations
- 5. The sphere that contains ice
- 7. The sphere that contains dirt & rocks, minerals, dirt/soil that is non-living
- 9. A group of parts that work together as a whole
- 10. The sphere that contains water
- 13. the action of surface processes that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location
- 15. The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure