Across
- 2. an object or material that in another object or material.
- 3. A mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock, and humus (plant and animal remains)sand, clay, loam, silt
- 4. A mark or depression made by pressure
- 8. minerals in water sticking together to form
- 9. the feel of a surface (smooth, rough)
- 10. Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past or how it works
- 13. To rot and break down into small parts
- 14. To rot and break down the remains of plants and animals into smaller parts
Down
- 1. To hold inside, as soil does with water.
- 3. Rock made of layers of compressed sediments
- 5. Force of objects pushing on other objects
- 6. a scientist who studies fossils
- 7. pressing of layers of sediment into sedimentary rock
- 11. A component of soil made of small pieces of rock; pebbles; usually a smooth texture.
- 12. Small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and the settling in an area
