Earth Science Crossword

Breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials
Depression in a glacial outwash drift made by the melting of a detached mass of glacial ice that became wholly or partly buried
Scraping of rock surface by friction
Surface parallel fracture system
Cleavage of chemical bonds
Redox
Rain that is unusually acidic
Upper layer of soil
Layer parallel to the soil crust
Movement of surface material cause by gravity
Dissolve material and transport
Striking landforms of fluvioglacial deposition
Area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet
An area of land that catches rain and snow and drains or seeps into a marsh, stream, river, lake or groundwater
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake
Material such as sediment being added to a landform
Bend in a sinuous watercourse or river
Flat area of land next to a river or stream
U-shaped body of water that forms when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.
Huge ice sheet
A persistent body of dense ice
Glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris
Amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion
Glacial trough
Period of long-term reduction in the temperature
Boulder clay
Hills that form by tills
Plain formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the terminus of a glacier
Irregularly shaped hill or mound