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Sample Rocks and Minerals Theme Worksheet
Rocks and Minerals Theme Unit

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Rock Cycle
(Answer ID # 0644860)
Complete the puzzle.

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weather	erosion	heat	weathering
basalt	river	melting	igneous

 

Down 1.   Ice, water, the wind, and plants combine to ____ and erode rocks. 2.   ____ can change metamorphic rock into molten rock.

Across 1.   The process in which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by ice, water, the wind, changes in temperature, plants, animals, or by chemicals. 3.   A type of physical weathering in which rocks are gradually worn down. 4.   Pressure and ____ may change rocks into metamorphic rocks. 5.   This type of igneous rock forms when lava from a volcano cools and hardens. 6.   Wind or rain can carry weathered pieces of rock to a ____ where the rocks may be deposited in layers. 7.   Lava cools and crystallizes to become ____ rock.

 

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