Geology Vocab Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• fossil : the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past
• era : a span of time marked by character, events, changes on earth, etc
• eon : an indefinitely long period of time
• sedimentary rock : types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the earth's surface and within bodies of water
• period : a length or span of time
• geology : the science that deals with the earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.
• index fossil : fossils used to define and identify geologic periods
• volcano : a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface
• crust : the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet or natural satellite, which is chemically distinct from the underlying mantle.
• ice core : a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of antarctica, greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere
• epoch : a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.
• lava : lava is the molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption.
• magma : magma is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets.
• extinction : the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species
• uplift : a rise of land to a higher elevation
• erosion : the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the earth's crust, then transport it away to another location.
• plate : lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of these, which float on and travel independently
• igneous rock : igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava