Formation of Earth's Surface Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- density : mass/volume
- mineral : building blocks of rocks
- erosion : the process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
- weathering : the breaking down of rocks and other materials on the earth's surface.
- deposition : process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
- rock cycle : a series of processes on the surface and inside earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another
- plate tectonics : the theory that pieces of earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
- convergent : a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
- divergent : a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
- transform : a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions