Earthquakes and Droughts
Across
- 2. Drought that makes is difficult to grow crops due to soil moisture.
- 4. Boundary where lithosphere is neither created of destroyed.
- 6. Drought that is characterized by a low water supply in reservoirs.
- 7. This type of crust is most dense.
- 9. Most of Earths mass is contained in this layer.
- 11. Drought that involves their not being enough supply to meet demand because of a lack of water.
- 12. The word associated with meteorological drought.
- 14. The crust and upper mantle make this up.
- 16. The Earth has 5 of these.
- 22. What we say gets low when our reservoirs are not full.
- 23. Of or relating to people and finances.
- 24. This type of crust is the least dense and composed of granite.
Down
- 1. The process by which water is transferred from land to atmosphere and plants to atmosphere.
- 3. This is when tectonic plates are moving toward each other.
- 5. Mountain range that stores much of California's water supply.
- 8. A man made water storage location.
- 10. Drought that is connected to all other types of droughts.
- 13. This is when tectonic plates are striking and slipping moving past one another.
- 15. A complex natural phenomenon that can have significant social economic and environmental consequences.
- 17. The fault-line that we currently live on.
- 18. This is when tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
- 19. When one plate is sliding below another plate.
- 20. A feature of climate where precipitation is particularly low.
- 21. Area around the pacific plate that has many earthquakes and volcanoes.