Ch 1 Introduction to Geography

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Across
  1. 2. begins with the transfer of hot air and cold air
  2. 6. when snow melts and rivulets of water begin to flow down a mountain and join together
  3. 9. large body of land
  4. 10. involves the changes that take place in the lower part of the earth's atmosphere in a localized area during a short period of time
  5. 13. a narrow strip of land that connects two landmasses
  6. 14. climate that averages less than 10 inches of precipitation a year
  7. 16. height above sea level
  8. 17. a way of moving the moisture from the oceans to the land and back
  9. 18. the wide mouth of a river
  10. 21. the study of the earth
  11. 22. resemble mesas but even smaller in diameter
  12. 23. most prominent landscape
  13. 24. involves certain patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region
  14. 27. a body of water surrounded by land
  15. 30. similar to a plateau but smaller
  16. 32. climate that experiences high temperatures and heavy precipitation
  17. 33. land completely surrounded by water
  18. 34. this type of precipitation occurs when hot humid air rises and cools and produces the world's heaviest rainfalls
  19. 36. when rivers plunge from a cliff or a shelf rock
  20. 37. zone found far north and south and contain the coldest climate
  21. 39. the largest and deepest ocean
  22. 40. great rotating storms or cyclones
  23. 43. low shadowy area between mountains and hills
  24. 44. zone where it has warm climate all year
  25. 45. a triangular shaped landform where a river fans out into smaller streams
  26. 46. zone where is has wide ranges of temperature and experience seasons
  27. 48. winds blowing warm moist air toward coastal mountains cause this type of precipitation
Down
  1. 1. four large bodies of water
  2. 3. this climate is also known as grassland
  3. 4. merchant sailors used this to sail from Europe to the Americas
  4. 5. land surrounded by water on three sides
  5. 7. the lines that run east and west around the globe
  6. 8. the wet season where warm moist winds blow from the sea to the land
  7. 11. the release of water from the atmosphere in the form of rain
  8. 12. flat rolling lands with few changes in elevation
  9. 15. when two air masses of different temperatures meet
  10. 19. merchant sailors used these winds to get back to Europe
  11. 20. the warmest ocean
  12. 25. lines that run north and south around the globe
  13. 26. rounded landform smaller than a mountain usually without steeps
  14. 28. type of highland with flat top
  15. 29. the coldest and most shallow ocean
  16. 31. the second largest ocean
  17. 35. when streams join together they create this
  18. 38. divides the Earth into two equal hemispheres
  19. 41. climates around the world based on latitude
  20. 42. the shape and elevation of the land
  21. 47. climate that's classified as either desert or steppe