Sedimentary Rock Crossword

6. The process by which chemicals break down rock through a change in the mineral's composition.
10. The physical and chemical breakdown of rocks at or near the surface.
11. The wearing away of soil or rock by water, wind, or ice.
12. Sedimentary rocks produced by Mechanical weathering and classified by grain size, sorting, and angularity.
14. Soil that is formed from the parent material and is of the same composition.
16. Parent material has been carried from elsewhere and deposited.
17. Water combines with minerals such as mica and feldspar found in granite, to form clay, the rock weakens and crumbles apart.
18. Occurs when water combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form carbonic acid.
19. Occurs when oxygen from the air combines with iron-rich minerals of the rock.
20. The process of removing empty spaces between minerals by the weight of the overlying sediment.

1. Layers of rock peel off the main body of the rock.
2. The tendency for currents of air or water to separate sediments according to size.
3. The process of “gluing” the compacted minerals together by minerals that filter down through the sediment.
4. Sedimentary rocks formed when water dissolves minerals and deposits them elsewhere.
5. The mechanical or physical breakdown of rock into smaller pieces(sediments), without a change in the mineral’s chemical composition.
7. Pieces of rock collide with each other due to transportation by wind, ice, water and gravity.
8. The laying down of sediment carried by wind, water, or ice.
9. Sedimentary rocks formed by the action of organisms as they build shells and other body parts by extracting chemical components from the water in which they live.
13. The “jaggedness” of rocks.
15. Water freezes in a crack in the rock surface, expanding and splitting the rock.