Across
- 5. ornamented with foils or a leaf design
- 6. core the innermost layer of the Earth
- 7. Molten, or hot liquefied, rock located deep below the Earth's surface
- 9. The process of particles settling to the bottom of a body of water
- 12. the molten, fluid rock that issues from a volcano or volcanic vent
- 13. a piece of construction material (as layered rock) prepared as a shingle for roofing and siding
- 14. when pieces of the Earth are deposited somewhere else
- 16. a natural process that slowly breaks apart or changes rock.
- 17. rock is made when sand, mud, and pebbles get laid down in layers
- 19. a rock made of sand held together by a natural cemented
- 26. Sandstone that has been converted into a solid quartz rock
- 27. a hard layer that forms on the outside of something
- 28. a solid material where atoms or molecules are arranged in a repeating, three-dimensional pattern
- 29. the solid and rigid outer layer of our planet
Down
- 1. a rock with a fine grain formed from clay, mud, or silt.
- 2. composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass
- 3. a kind of igneous rock formed by the cooling of a certain type of molten lava
- 4. a type of rock that is made up of bits of animal shells
- 8. cycle crystallization, metamorphism, and erosion and sedimentation
- 10. Granite is a type of bedrock known as igneous rock.
- 11. the thickest layer of Earth
- 15. igneous rock any igneous rock that forms from lava cooling and crystalizing on the surface of the earth's crust
- 18. igneous rock cool slowly without ever reaching the surface
- 19. made of medium-grained interlocking crystals
- 20. rock The original rock is subjected to very high heat and pressure
- 21. is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock
- 22. core located between the inner core and the mantle
- 23. a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate.
- 24. naturally occurring elements or compounds.
- 25. the process where natural forces like water, wind, or ice wear away and move soil and rock from one place to another
