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