Rock Transformations Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. the process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces due to wind or moving water
  2. 8. small pieces of rock
  3. 9. the rock type formed when sediment is pressed and glued together
  4. 10. hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth
  5. 12. the process of sediment being buried and pressed
  6. 13. a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like
  7. 15. a region of rock that formed together as a single rock type
Down
  1. 2. the rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid
  2. 3. the process by which rock material moves under Earth’s outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion
  3. 4. the process by which all the rock formations of a region are pushed up due to plate motion
  4. 5. the process of sediment being glued together
  5. 6. the ability to make things move or change
  6. 7. the rock type formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock
  7. 10. anything that has mass and takes up space
  8. 11. one of the many different types of matter that make up rocks
  9. 14. the movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water