First Life

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Across
  1. 4. Bay in WA with Stromatolites
  2. 5. Banded Iron Formations
  3. 10. Microbial communities which are laminated
  4. 12. A precipitate formed in the young ocean
  5. 13. The remains of life preserved in rock
  6. 15. Thought to be the most primitive form of life
  7. 16. Biggest unit of geological time
  8. 17. Atom needed for life
  9. 18. Old rocks found in Greenland that contain evidence of life
  10. 19. Subatomic particle with no charge
  11. 21. Fourth planet from our sun
Down
  1. 1. Gas common in the Earth's early atmosphere
  2. 2. To become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.
  3. 3. Chemical reaction converting sunlight to chemical energy
  4. 6. Variants of a particular chemical element which differ in neutron number
  5. 7. To be placed in layers
  6. 8. Builder of stromatolites
  7. 9. Location of earliest known fossils ______ Bar
  8. 11. Microbial communities which are not laminated
  9. 14. A deposit in solid form from a solution.
  10. 20. Gas produced by photosythesis