chapter 1
Across
- 9. water frozen as snow and ice
- 10. a description of location expressed as an angle north or south of the equator.
- 11. occurs on about December 21 - the North Pole is oriented most directly away from the Sun
- 12. The gaseous envelope of air that surrounds Earth
- 13. east–west location on Earth
- 14. an imaginary plane passing through Earth halfway between the poles and perpendicular to the axis of rotation
- 15. the rocks of Earth’s crust as well as the unconsolidated particles of mineral matter that overlie the solid bedrock
Down
- 1. occurs on or about June 21 - North Pole is oriented most directly toward the Sun
- 2. sometimes called environmental geography
- 3. Any plane that is passed through the center of a sphere bisects that sphere
- 4. on approximately March 20 - the vertical rays of the Sun strike the equator.
- 5. all the parts of Earth where living organisms can exist
- 6. on about September 22 -the vertical rays of the Sun strike the equator.
- 7. comprises water in all its forms
- 8. includes such subfields as cultural geography, economic geography, political geography, and urban geography.