Science

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind (7)
  2. 9. Molten rock in the earth's crust (5)
  3. 11. Solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition (plural) (8)
  4. 13. Of or relating to ___ (11)
  5. 14. A rock formed by the solidification of a substance (plural) (8)
  6. 15. Substance used in or made by chemistry (plural) (9)

Down

  1. 1. Igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface (8)
  2. 2. Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity (5)
  3. 4. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos (4)
  4. 5. Produced by the action of water (11)
  5. 6. The principal form of iron ore (8)
  6. 7. The breakdown or alteration of rock at or near the surface of the Earth. (10)
  7. 8. An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element (7)
  8. 10. The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth (6)
  9. 12. A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain (9)
  10. 14. Hard outer layer of the Earth or of bread (5)