Geography3 dendinger Crossword
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1) A huge mass of slowly moving land ice.3) The theory that the earth's crust consist of lithospheric plates that carry the continents and the ocean floor and float slowly on the plastice upper mantle, colliding with and scraping against one another.4) The bowing of a large region of the earth's surface due to the movement of continents or the melting of continental glaciers.7) The downslope movement of earth materials due to gravity.8) A bend or wrinkle in rock resulting from a compression and formed when the rock was in a plastic state.10) The forces of wind, moving waters, glaciers, waves, and ocean currents that carve, wear away, and remove rock and soil particles.11) A natural inorganic substance that has a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystal structure, hardness, and density.12) The earth force that transports subsurfacee materials (often heated, sometimes molten) to or toward the surface of the earth.14) The sediment carried by a stream and deposited in a floodplain or delta.15) A limestone region marked by sinkholes, caverns, and underground streams.16) The physical disintegrationn of earth materials, commonly by frost action, root action, or the development of salt crystals.19) A valley area bordering a stream that is subject to inundation by flooding.20) Permanently frozen subsoil. |
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2) The earth force that folds, faults, twists, and compresses rock.5) Breaks in rock produced by stress or the movement of lithospheric plates.6) The partially molten,plastic layer above the core and lower mantle of the earth.9) Rock formed by the accumulationn of particles of gravel, sand, silt and clay that were eroded from already existing rocks and laid down in layers.13) The mechanical and chemicalprocesses that fragment and decompose rock materials.17) The outermost layer of the earth, composed of the crust and upper mantle.18) Sea waves generated when an earthquake, eruption, or underwater landslide abruptly moves the seabed, jolting the warters above.21) A deposit of windblown silt.22) Rock transformed from igneous and sedimentary rocks into a new type of rock by earth forces that generate heat, pressure, or chemical reaction23) the process by which one lithospheric plate is forced down beneath another into the asthenosphere as a result of a collision with that plate.24) The processes of weathering, gravity transfer, and erosion that are responsible fo the reduction of the land surface.25) The decomposition of earth materials because of chemical reactions that include oxidation, hydration, and carbonation.26) The upper limit of the saturated zone and therefore of groundwater; the top of the water within an aquifer.27) The hypothesis that an origianl single landmass (Pangaea) broke apart and that the continents have moved very slowly over the asthenosphere to their presen tlocations.28) Rock formed from coll, solidified magma; may solidify beneath or at the earth's surface |
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