Across
- 4. anything that takes up space and has mass
- 5. the degree of compactness of a substance
- 7. a naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter
- 9. rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies
- 11. the process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
- 13. decompose rocks
- 16. the solid part of the Earth system
Down
- 1. a rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of sediment
- 2. rock that has been altered in structure of composition by heat, pressure, and chemical substances usually deep in Earth’s crust
- 3. a natural accumulation of a substance such as iron, coal, or gas naturally occurring: not made by people, existing by nature
- 5. the process in which material is laid down
- 6. ability to do work or cause changed
- 8. a series of events that repeat
- 10. the series of processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is broken down or melted, and forms again by geologic
- 12. the natural process by which atmospheric and environmental agents, such as wind, rain, and temperature changes, disintegrate
- 14. the molten or partially molten rock material containing trapped gases produced under Earth’s surface
- 15. a set of things that work together
