Across
- 1. Dark, dense igneous rock with fine texture found in oceanic crust.
- 5. the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil
- 6. rock sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize from a solution
- 10. the process by which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together into one mass
- 13. rock a type of rock the forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat and pressure or chemical reaction
- 14. rock igneous rock that forms from magma when it hardens beneath the earths surface
- 17. process in which sediment land s in new locations
- 18. usually light colored igneous rock that is found in continental crust
- 19. rock sedimentary rock the forms when rock fragments are squeezed together under high pressure
- 20. term used to describe metamorphic rock that have grains arranged in parallel layers or bands
Down
- 2. the look and feel of a rocks surface, determined by the size, shape, and patterns of a rocks grains
- 3. the particles of minerals or other rocks that give a rock its texture
- 4. the process by which sediments are pressed together under there own weight
- 7. rock igneous rock that forms from lava on the earths surface
- 8. mineral any of the common minerals that make up most of the rocks on the earths crust.
- 9. rock a type pf rock that forms when other particles for other rocks or the remains plants and animals cemented together
- 11. the chemical and physical process that break rocks and other substances
- 12. rock sedimentary rock the forms from the remains of organisms deposited in thick layers
- 15. rock the type of rock that forms the the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface
- 16. small, solid pieces of material that comes from rock or the remains of organisms, earths materials deposited by erosion
