Sedimentary Rock Crossword

2. Formed when water dissolves minerals and deposits them somewhere else
4. 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
7. Layers of rock peel off the main body of the rock
10. The process of removing empty spaces between minerals by the weight of the overlying sediments
12. As sediment is transported from its source to where it is deposited, the particles collide with each other and with other objects, which causes them to change shape and size
16. The process by which chemicals break down rock through a change in the mineral's composition
17. The weathering away of soil or rock by water, wind, or ice
20. Water combines with minerals such as mica and feldspar found in granite, to form clay, the rock weakens and crumbles apart

1. Water freezes in a crack in the rock surface, expanding and splitting the rock
3. Occurs when water combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form carbonic acid
5. A material being transported away to a different landmass, by water, wind, or ice
6. Soil is formed from the parent material and is of the same composition
8. Parent material has been carried from elsewhere and deposited
9. The tendency for currents of air or water to separate sediments according to size
11. Pieces of rock collide with each other due to transportation by wind, ice, water, and gravity
13. The process of "gluing" the compacted minerals together by minerals that filter down through the sediment
14. The physical and chemical breakdown of rocks at or near the surface
15. occurs when oxygen from the air combusts with iron-rich minerals of the rock
18. The mechanical or physical breakdown of rock into smaller pieces(sediments), without a change in the mineral's chemical composition
19. Rocks produced by mechanical weathering and are classified by grain size, sorting, and angularity