Across
- 3. pieces of rock collide with each other due to transportation by wind, water, ice, and gravity
- 5. That material will end up being transported by those mediums, and ultimately deposited in a different landmass
- 6. the process of gluing the compacted minerals together by minerals that filter down the sediment
- 8. Weathering the mechanical or physical breakdown of rock into smaller pieces(sediments)
- 10. jaggedness of rock
- 11. water combines with minerals such as mica and feldspar found in granite, to form clay, the rock weakens and crumbles apart
- 12. wearing away of soil or rock by water, wind or ice
- 13. Weathering the process by which chemicals break down rock through a change in the mineral’s composition, happens faster in hot, moist climate
- 15. dome layers of the rock that peel off the main body of the rock
- 17. occurs when oxygen from the air combines with iron-rich minerals of the rock
- 19. soil soil is formed from the parent material and is the same deposited
- 20. the tendency for currents of air or water to separate sediments according to size
Down
- 1. the process of removing empty spaces between minerals by the weight of the overlying sediment
- 2. sedimentary action of organisms as they build shells and other body parts by extracting chemical components from the water in which they live
- 4. the physical and chemical breakdown of rock into smaller pieces
- 7. soil parent material has been carried from elsewhere and deposited
- 9. occurs when water combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form carbonic acid
- 14. formed when water dissolves minerals and deposits them elsewhere
- 16. produced by mechanical weathering and are classified by grain size, sorting, angulairty
- 18. action water freezes in a crack of the rock surface, expanding and splitting the rock
