Geography Basics

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Across
  1. 3. Highlands that rise quickly and are flat on the top
  2. 5. A bowl shaped depression in the earth
  3. 7. A year round cover of ice and snow, often found at the top of mountains.
  4. 9. Land surrounded on 3 sides by water
  5. 10. an underground layer of water
  6. 12. A man-made body of water that connects two larger bodies of water
  7. 15. Large mass of ice that moves slowly
  8. 18. Fertile land in desert
  9. 20. Narrow strip of water that connects two larger bodies of water
  10. 21. A deep narrow valley with steep sides carved by a river.
  11. 22. A peninsula that just out into the water
  12. 24. forests found in regions that receive more than 100 inches of rain per year
  13. 26. A protected body of water deep enough to allow ships.
Down
  1. 1. Land at the mouth of a river
  2. 2. a large inlet of the sea that extends into the land
  3. 4. a chain of islands
  4. 6. Area of land covered in water most of the year
  5. 8. Flat treeless land
  6. 11. A narrow strip of land that connect two larger land masses
  7. 13. Area of wetlands characterized with grosses and cattails
  8. 14. An area that receives less than 20 inches of rain per year
  9. 16. A valley created by the separation of the earths tectonic plates
  10. 17. land surrounded on all sides by water
  11. 19. Treeless grasslands usually found in the tropics
  12. 20. Large area of flat unforested grassland in siberia
  13. 23. An inlet of the sea usually smaller than a gulf
  14. 25. Treeless plains found in arctic