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 - …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

an ecosystem's abilty to maintain equilibrium, funnel-shaped areas of land where all the water drains to the same body of water, water that has …

the process of wearing or the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces through physical, chemical, or organic means, the process of moving weathered …

the outer layer of the earth (5), what the molten rock in the mantle is called (5), a mountain formed by the eruption of lava, ash, and rock, a sudden …

infrastructure builder or designer, who studies earth, a feature's linear direction, a feature's slope, a rock type coming from latin …

depends primarily on the composition of the magma and temperature, the magma is very hot, with blank that can range from 800°c to 1400°c, an …

when sediments are placed down to remain by the elements, outermost layer of the earth, _ sedimentary rock is formed by sediments of rocks, _ igneous …

slime, is a slippery liquid, a current day shelled mollusk with tentacles, small aquatic snails with a shell that is broadly conical in shape and a …

this type of rock forms from cooled magma or lava, this type of rock is formed from the accumulation of sediment, these rocks are formed through heat …

the wearing away and removal of rock by the sea, where eroded rocks are hurdled against a cliff wearing it away, where eroded rocks hit against each …

a thick ice sheet that slowly flows under its own weight, vast sheets of glacial ice that cover immense areas of relatively flat land, "rivers of …

a vein of igneous rock that runs perpendicular to the strata, usually a combination of two or more minerals, a surface of erosion that separates one …

a texture of igneous rocks that have cooled slowly in the earth, can see visible crystals, a texture of igneous rocks that have cooled fairly fast but …

slow moving forms of ice, the area between the equator and a pole, the upper layer of soil, hot, liquid rock, a deposit of sand and soil at the mouth …

phosphorus on earth is tied up in rock and sedimentary deposits, from which it is released by _ , the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the …

the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock or mineral, a solid material who's constituents are arranged in a highly ordered …