Across
- 4. What a surface looks and feels like.
- 5. property: is a characteristic of a material that you can observe or measure without changing what the material is.
- 7. are the tiny, tiny pieces that everything is made of. You cannot see them with your eyes, but they make up all matter, whether it's a solid, a liquid, or a gas.
- 9. A component of soil made by the weathering of rocks into tiny grains; has a rough and gritty texture.
- 10. example: The physical properties of a rock are its color, size, shape, and texture.)
- 11. A mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock, and humus (plant and animal remains).
Down
- 1. To hold inside, as soil does with water.
- 2. the way something feels when you touch it.
- 3. The top layer of soil
- 6. A component of soil made of very tiny grains; sticky and soft when wet but turns hard when dry.
- 8. Soil made up of an equal mixture of sand, clay, silt, and organic matter.
- 10. example: A blanket can feel soft, while a rock can feel rough)