Topic 5 Lessons 1 & 2 Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. process in which sediment is laid down in new locations
  2. 4. a wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt
  3. 5. the loose, weathered material on Earth’s surface in which plants can grow
  4. 6. any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill
  5. 10. weathering the process that breaks down rock through chemical changes
  6. 11. a deposit of wind-blown sand
  7. 12. the process by which wind removes surface materials
Down
  1. 1. the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity move weathered particles of rock and soil
  2. 2. the geologic principle that the same geological processes that operate today operated in the past to change Earth’s surface
  3. 7. weathering type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces
  4. 8. dark-colored organic material in soil
  5. 9. small, solid particles, of material that come from rocks or the remains of organisms deposited by erosion