This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Rocks & Minerals has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 22 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
What is the breaking down of rocks either mechanically or chemically?
What is the movement of earths materials from one place to another?
What's the dropping of sediments?
What is small pieces of rock or earth material?
What's the process of laying down parallel bands of sediment, often seen in sedimentary rocks?
In what layer of rock, the oldest rocks are on the bottom and the rocks become progressively younger toward the top?
What rock gets weathered?
What happens when this rock is exposed to heat and pressure deep beneath Earth’s surface.
What rocks are classified according to their origin?
What's the process that presses sediments together?
What's the process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together.
What's the process of cementation and compaction together?
What formed the tiny particles of clay?
What formed from the compaction of small particles of sand?
Where does Sandstone most likely form at?
Where does shale mostly form?
What forms when a mixture of rock fragments of different sizes are cemented together.
What formed from the remains of swamp plants buried in water?
What rocks have smaller crystal size that takes less time to cool down outside of the earth surface.
What is the process that builds, destroys, and changes the ricks in the crust