About the Earth
Across
- 4. natural landforms are mountains, plateaus, river valleys, coastal plains and beaches
- 5. planet we live on
- 6. flat section of land between two mountains
- 8. very steep cliff with a closing river at the bottom
- 13. that was pushed to the earth's surface
- 16. force in which pieces of rock are moved from place to place by flowing water, wind, gravity, or ice
- 17. plate of earth's crust that crashed into another that raised a part of the land
- 19. very, very dry and flat land with barely any water
Down
- 1. shaking of earth's crust as built up energy is released
- 2. innermost structure
- 3. force that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces
- 6. mountain that spouts lava, smoke and toxic gasses
- 7. rock below the earth's surface
- 9. sediments slide down from a steep slope
- 10. to a cave, and has really hollow holes in the ground
- 11. dry lands usually covered in grass
- 12. layer of earth's structure just below the earth's crust
- 14. thin, rocky outer layer of earth that makes up the continents and ocean floor
- 15. flowing or connecting over land that is usually dry
- 18. tiny section of land that forms in the sea with trees and sand and surrounded by water