Across
- 3. A solid inorganic substance
- 5. When rocks are broken down and made into sediments from wind, rain, and freezing water
- 6. The coldest layer of the atmosphere
- 9. When plates move away from each other
- 10. When sediments are glued tightly together because of dissolved minerals
- 12. When plates slide past one another
- 14. The way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral
- 16. A rock created by heat and pressure
- 18. The color of a mineral when it is crushed to a powder
- 19. The sediments that are carried from one place to another from wind and running water
Down
- 1. The number of tectonic plates
- 2. When plates move toward each another
- 4. A sudden violent shaking of the ground that causes great destruction
- 7. A rock created by compaction and cementation
- 8. The device used to find the magnitude of an earthquake
- 11. A rock created by the cooling of magma
- 12. The layer of the atmosphere where all of the weather occurs on Earth
- 13. The device used to locate an earthquake
- 15. When sediment particles are squeezed together
- 17. The act of cleaving or splitting a rock