Changing Earth!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who (4)
  2. 4. A large mass of ice floating at sea (7)
  3. 7. The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice (8)
  4. 8. Tiny grains found on beaches (4)
  5. 9. Mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake (4)
  6. 11. The process of oxidizing (9)
  7. 12. A slowly moving mass of ice (plural) (8)
  8. 14. A sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff (5)

Down

  1. 1. Rolling swells on the sea (5)
  2. 2. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric (5)
  3. 3. Solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition (plural) (8)
  4. 5. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff (9)
  5. 6. Condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind (7)
  6. 10. Any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together (plural) (7)
  7. 12. Force that pulls objects toward the Earth (7)
  8. 13. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock (4)