Earth Surface Processes Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• chemical: type of weathering that alters the composition and mineralogy
• relief: difference in height from place to place on the land’s surface.
• wedging: weathering by frost or roots
• oxidation: a reaction that occurs when an element loses electrons to oxygen
• dissolution: type of weathering where water removes ions
• mechanical: another name for physical (weathering)
• pressure: rocks expand due to the release of this
• core stone: rounded boulder, occurring individually or in piles at the ground surface, or in exposed sections
• olivine: a mineral that is the most susceptible to weathering
• duricrust: accumulation of less mobile elements in stable minerals forming a hard layer on or near the earth's surface
• spalling: weathering caused by fires on the outer layers of rock
• felsic: type of rock that contains minerals that are more stable at the surface
• smectite: clay mineral of 2 tetrahedra sheets with an octahedra sheet in between
• biological: type of weathering by the action of organisms
• hydration: attachment of h+ or oh- ions onto the mineral structure
• hydrolysis: displacement of ions in a mineral structure by h+ or oh- from water