Across
- 2. the process of removing empty spaces between minerals by the weight of overlying sediment
- 4. a soil material which is the result of weathering and decomposition of rocks that has not been transported from its original place.
- 5. the tendency for currents of air or water to separate sediments according to size
- 7. rust
- 9. the mechanical or physical break down of rocks into smaller pieces without a change in the minerals chemical composition
- 10. water combines with minerals such as mica and feldspar found in granite to from clay, the rock weakens and crumbles apart
- 11. produced by mechanical weathering and classified by grain size, sorting, and angularity.
- 12. the wearing away of soil or rock by water, wind, or ice
- 13. as sediment is transported from its source to where it is deposited the particles collide with each other and with other objects in their path
- 15. parent material composition
- 17. formed by the actions of organisms as they build shells and other body parts by extracting chemical components from the water in which they live
- 19. the process by which chemicals break down through a change in the minerals chemical composition
- 20. occurs when water combines with carbon dioxide
Down
- 1. the process of gluing compacted minerals together by minerals that filter down through the sediment
- 3. formed when water dissolves minerals and deposits them elsewhere
- 6. layers of rock peel of the main body of rock
- 8. pieces of rock collide with each other to due water, wind, or ice
- 14. water freezes in a crack of the rock surface splitting the rock
- 16. weared away soil or rock being transported by mediums and deposited into a different landmass
- 18. the physical breakdown of rocks at or near the earths surface