Across
- 1. a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body.
- 3. the top of the earth's crust
- 5. persistent body of dense ice that is
- 6. a small river
- 10. solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.
- 11. rock-fall is a quantity of rock that has fallen freely from a cliff
- 13. breaking down rock and minerals
- 15. dirt
- 16. H2O
- 17. mountains that are short and smooth
- 18. a slanted area
- 19. free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.
- 20. the force down
- 21. water moving that causes weathering
- 24. moving under its own weigh
- 25. a fluid or hardened stream or avalanche of mud.
- 27. the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.
Down
- 2. mountains that are tall and pointed
- 4. water reactions with minerals and rock
- 7. a large body of water flows
- 8. physical force weathering
- 9. rain laced with chemicals
- 12. plants breaking down rocks
- 13. air movement break down rocks
- 14. creatures digging burrows cause weathering
- 16. ice getting in the rock cracks and expanding
- 18. a granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles
- 21. the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth
- 22. the path that a river or stream follows
- 23. a scalar quantity of size
- 25. a naturally occurring inorganic element
- 26. covered or saturated with water