Geographic Terms
Across
- 3. condition of the Earth's atmosphere at any given time
- 4. pattern of weather in a particular place over 20 to 30 years
- 7. area of raised land that is lower and more rounded than a mountain
- 11. body of water surrounded entirely by land
- 12. low hills at the base of a mountain range
- 14. land that lies between hills or mountains
- 15. flat, treeless land with limited moisture
- 17. cone-shaped mountain formed by an outpouring lava-hot liquid rock-from a crack in the Earth's surface
- 23. waterway made by people that is used to drain or irrigate land or to connect two bodies of water
- 24. any of the seven large landmasses on the Earth's surface
- 25. height above sea level
- 28. chain of islands
- 30. arrow on a map that always points north
- 32. lowland with moist soils and tall grasses
- 33. deep narrow valley with high, steep sides
- 35. narrow strip of land joining two large areas or joining a peninsula to a mainland
- 37. broad area of fairly level land that is generally close to sea level
- 40. lowland of area lying along the ocean
- 42. half of the earth
- 44. place where a river begins
- 46. any of the five largest bodies of salt water on the Earth's surface
- 47. area that has little or no moisture or vegetation
Down
- 1. large stream of water that empties into an ocean lake or another river
- 2. large area of high, flat, land or gently rolling land
- 5. the distance of degrees east or west of the prime meridian
- 6. arm of the ocean or sea that is partially enclosed by land, usually larger than a bay
- 8. land area that is surrounded by water
- 9. land formed by soil that is deposited at the mouth of a river
- 10. height above sea level
- 13. stream or small river that flows into a larger river or stream
- 16. piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
- 18. mountain ridge that separates river systems flowing to opposite sides of a continent
- 19. high, steep, rugged land that rises sharply above the surrounding land
- 20. place where the river or stream empties into a larger body of water
- 21. part of a body of water that is partly enclosed by land
- 22. large area of natural grassland with few or no trees or hills
- 26. low-lying land area that is surrounded by a land of higher elevation land that is drained by a river system
- 27. chain of connected mountains
- 29. In the direction of a river’s flow; toward the rivers mouth
- 31. land that borders the sea
- 34. narrow point of land that extends into a body of water
- 36. average level of the ocean's surface from which height of land or depth of the ocean is measured
- 37. rolling land among the base of a mountain range
- 38. the distance in degrees north and south from the equator
- 39. in the direction that is against a river's flow; towards the water source
- 41. narrow channel that connects two larger bodies of water
- 43. large body of salt water that is much smaller than an ocean
- 45. place where rivers drop from a plateau or foothills to a coastal plain, usually marked by many waterfalls