Geology & Earth Science Crossword Puzzles

convection currents are located here, clay, water silt, sand,animals,air, organic matter, the breaking down of rocks, carried rocks away, _ igneous - …

a deep gorge in the surface of earth formed by the erosion of moving water and sand, the breakdown of rock into smaller particles from the effects of …

greek meaning weak. part of earth’s upper mantle, 7 largest areas of land of earth’s crust, currents caused by heat exchange, place where rifts …

rock salt, ductile bond, soft sulphate, ca-plagioclase, pb-sulphide, fluorescent mineral, oldest mineral, softest mineral, strong bond, hard oxide, …

an effect that happens as a direct result of a hazard, a shaking of the earths crust by tectonic movement, a rupture of the earths crust, a force that …

split into two regions; center of earth, theory, most widely held by scientists, of how earth's magnetic field is generated, uppermost layer of earth, …

a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found, it is the longest of the phanerozoic eras, lasting from 540 to 250 …

a large underground chamber formed when rainwater follows the cracks in a rock and begins to dissolve the rock, a type of valley formed by a glacier …

where warmer parts rise and cooler parts sink, stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks, a section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the …

a naturally occurring, pure chemical substance, minerals deemed valuable, how light reflects off the surface of a mineral, a type of intrusive igneous …

the sea that surrounds the north pole, lying within the arctic circle, the second-largest ocean in the world, the ocean to the south of india, the …

teach children to always ask before going near any water (source: american red cross), enclosing pools with fencing, supervising children when around …

where the tide meets the stream, an area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all …

type of weathering that alters the composition and mineralogy, difference in height from place to place on the land’s surface, weathering by frost …

a rock made of marine animals, the process of water turning into gas, rock made from enough heat and pressure under ground, a rock cooling inside the …

a naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid that has a definite chemical composition, a rock containing valuable minerals, a mineral made of a …

hottest part of the earth, rock containing metals, rock laid down in layers, commonest minerals in rocks, rock changed from another type, breaking …

the approx temperature of the inner core (degrees), the average thickness of the earth's crust (km), the layer of hot, solid rock between earth's …

the process of moving the broken pieces of rock, type of rock formed by heat and pressure, type of rock formed from sediment, or broken-down rocks, …

the partially melted portion of the mantle below the lithosphere, the tendency of minerals to break along irregular surfaces, the tendency of minerals …

a deposit of minerals that is large enough to be mined for profit, a solid that has a crystal structure, a vent in earth's crust, the color of a …

one of the units of geologic time into which geologist divide eras, known as the "age of reptiles", invertebrate with shell during cambian …

fire rocks, rock formed in layers, changed from igneous or sedimentary, an igneous rock with large crystals, a metamorphic rock, a extrusive igneous …

weathering , erosion, deposition process, wearing away and breaking down of rocks by natural agents, breaking of rocks by wind ,air,water, breaking …

mostly found around volcanoes, forms when magma intrudes, formed when lava erupts, forms with water usually seawater evaporates, made with lava and …

each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a food web, an organism that cannot make its own food, must always be recycled in the ecosystem, …

the upper layer of the earths mantle, a hypothetical super-continent that included all current landmasses, a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, …

what is under the earth that keeps the ground together, gases surrounding the earth is called, the layer under mountains and oceans, the layer below …

part of the earth that we walk on, specific type of rock that form by smaller bits of other rocks get stuck together, a type of rock that absorbs …

crust that is less dense but thicker, crust that is denser and thinner, known as the "plastic" layer, layer that is broken up into tectonic …