Across
- 3. Fragmented rock material, such as silt, sand, clay, gravel, carried and deposited by water, wind, or ice.
- 4. A triangular alluvial deposit formed where a river enters a large body of water.
- 6. The laying down of material carried by water
- 9. The fan-shaped deposit of alluvium left by a stream where it issues from a canyon onto a plain.
- 10. A narrow valley with steep walls, formed by running water.
- 12. Any physical, recognizable form or feature of the Earth’s surface having a characteristic shape and produced by natural causes. Examples include mountains, valleys, deltas, and canyons.
Down
- 1. The solid rock underlying the soil and other loose rock material on the Earth’s surface.
- 2. The mechanical and chemical processes by which rock exposed to the weather turns into soil.
- 5. The wearing away of the soil and rock of the Earth’s crust
- 7. Sediment made up of fine mineral particles smaller than sand and larger than clay.
- 8. To carry from one place to another.
- 11. Silt, sand, clay, gravel, and other loose rock material deposited by flowing water, as in a riverbed or delta.