Across
- 2. a small solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things
- 3. this type of rock forms from cooling magma or lava
- 4. It is an igneous rock formed from lava that has erupted onto the earths surface
- 5. the look and feel of the rocks surface
- 7. When existing rock is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions
- 11. Igneous rock that has formed when magma hardened beneath the Earth’s surface
- 13. a sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together
- 14. made of mixtures of minerals
- 15. forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers
- 16. running water, wind, or ice loosen or carry away fragments of rock
- 18. the process that presses sediment together
- 19. it is in most minerals and it is formed from oxygen and silicon
Down
- 1. a light colored rock with silica in it
- 2. Forms when particles of other rocks or sediment are pressed together
- 6. metamorphic rocks that have their grains arranged in parallel lines
- 8. forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in
- 9. the process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together
- 10. most rocks are made up of these little particles
- 12. the process where sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it
- 17. a dark colored with little silica
