Across
- 2. responsible for picking up rock grains and moving them often
- 4. equal length of day and night
- 5. sandstone is made up of _____
- 6. study of the structure and composition of earth
- 8. caused by landslide
- 10. slow movement of water along a smooth channel
- 11. attraction to a magnet
- 17. attacks the mineral,iron bearing minerals
- 18. number of cirques that gnaw into a ridge
- 20. formed from hot molten materials through solidification
- 22. mixture of metallic element and waste mineral
- 26. the extent of the open water across which a wind blows
- 29. large intrusions with no definite lower limit
- 31. results of crustal movements
- 32. color of a thin layer of the finely powdered minerals
- 34. great island of rock that have been raised above the surface of the crust
- 35. lower layer:behaves as if it were blast
- 36. hill of wind-blown soil deposited over a rock,tree etc.
- 37. north-south location of any place in earth
- 38. cresent-shape dune
Down
- 1. finger like intrusion
- 3. ridge and hills formed when a melting glacier leaves its moraines
- 5. horizontal intrusion
- 7. uppermost layer:behave as if it were granite
- 9. movement of the solid parts of the earth
- 12. often red or white, becomes darker when it cools
- 13. generates tremendous amount of energy from nuclear reactions
- 14. ability to absorb light
- 15. indentation
- 16. due to either explosive volcanic activity
- 19. earth tremors that accompany faulting movement of great rock masses
- 21. provides a due to the internal structure of a mineral
- 23. one of the smallest planets
- 24. divides the earth into to two equal halves
- 25. wrinkles or bends produced in rocks while they are in plastic state
- 27. natural solid materials of the earths crust
- 28. a small lake that occupies a glacial cirque
- 30. a fracture on a rocks surface,along which there is displacement of the broken surface
- 33. it has not erupted for along time
- 34. splitting/breaking along certain planes