Finish the sentence. The Earth 2.
Across
- 4. Air is made up of many gases, such as _________, which we breath, and carbon dioxide, which is used by plants.
- 5. You could sail right around the Earth without seeing land.
- 6. About a tenth of the Earth's surface is always covered with ______.
- 8. The Earth is surrounded by a layer of ________ about 500 kilometers thick, called the atmosphere.
- 10. There are seven big pieces of land called _________________.
- 12. Above 12 kilometres of the atmosphere there are no ____________ and the Sun always shines in the daytime.
- 13. Only about a ____________ of the Earth's surface is land.
- 14. The Poles are the _____________ places on Earth.
- 16. The higher you go into the atmosphere, the less air there is and the harder it is to __________ .
- 17. We cannot see air but we feel it as _______.
- 18. _____________ usually flies higher than the weather, about 13-22 kilometres above the Earth.
Down
- 1. Atmosphere stops dangerous _________ from the Sun burning up life on Earth.
- 2. Many ______________ are too high and cold for plants and animals to survive there.
- 3. Nearly three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by _______ .
- 7. People carry oxygen tanks when they ________ mountains.
- 9. The further you travel from the equator, the ___________ it is.
- 11. The four __________ are all joined together.
- 15. Mount _________ is the highest mountain on Earth, it is 8850 metres high,
- 17. All our _________ happens in the first twelve kilometres of the atmosphere.