Minerals and Soil Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. keeping it the same
  2. 4. weathering wind, rain, and waves
  3. 8. smooth
  4. 10. ore minded from the ocean
  5. 11. farming
  6. 12. rotation
  7. 13. jagged
  8. 17. mixture of two or more substances
  9. 19. weathering weathering by chemicals with mineral solutions
  10. 22. organic matter mixed with minerals
  11. 23. growth of trees
  12. 24. a small stream
  13. 26. rain
  14. 27. slightly weathered bedrock
  15. 28. areas where water covers the soil
  16. 30. an ephemeral plant.
  17. 31. higher levels of minerals and nutrition
  18. 33. living
  19. 34. material original form before weathering
  20. 36. non living
  21. 37. profile the layers of soil
  22. 38. soiled parent material
Down
  1. 1. plate the color of the powder scraped off a mineral when rubbed against a hard surface
  2. 2. ore minded from the surface
  3. 5. the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline
  4. 6. cooled lava
  5. 7. sloping land
  6. 8. plowing
  7. 9. atoms that are arranged in definite
  8. 14. action of water
  9. 15. layer is dry and a barren layer because water has leaned the nutrients and minerals
  10. 16. breakdown
  11. 18. tillage
  12. 19. plants grow along the surface
  13. 20. buffers
  14. 21. hardness scale (1-10)
  15. 25. dully, glassy, pearly
  16. 29. the water ran off back into the ocean
  17. 32. the terrain alongside the bed of a river, creek, or stream
  18. 35. horion a soil layer