Across
- 2. a wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt
- 5. rotation, the planting of different crops in a field each year to maintain the soil's fertility
- 6. film, a type of fossil consisting of an extremely thin coating of carbon on rock
- 8. the process by which wind removes surface
- 9. a measure of how well soil supports plant growth
- 12. preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past
- 13. water that fills the crack and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
- 14. a loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun typically in a long, narrow orbit
- 16. glacier , a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island
- 19. the attractive force between objects; the force that moves objects downhill
- 20. a flat model of all or part of Earth's surface as seen from above
Down
- 1. a igneous rock layer formed when lava flows onto earth's surface and hardens
- 2. the distance in degrees north or south of the equator
- 3. a sphere that represents Earth's entire surface
- 4. any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land
- 7. the time it takes for half of the atoms of a radioactive element to decay
- 10. plain, the flat wide area of land along a river
- 11. the process that break down rock and other substances
- 15. the process of wearing down and carrying away rocks
- 17. plowing, plowing fields along the curves of a slope to prevent soil loss
- 18. a break in earth's crust along which rocks move
