Geography Chapter 2 Crossword
Across
- 3. The day with the most hours of sunlight is the summer ……………
- 7. A large area of ocean water partially surrounded by landmasses
- 10. When Earth’s surface is worn away and broken down
- 11. Another word for lava
- 15. When liquid changes into gas
- 17. Flat land that is higher than the land surrounding it
- 18. When day and night have equal length
- 19. a process that removes chemicals from water to make it safe to drink
- 20. To revolve around the sun
- 21. Caused by plate movement along fault lines and sometimes by volcanoes
- 22. The average weather of a place over a long time
- 24. The thin layer of gases that envelop the Earth
- 25. A large body of salt water
- 26. A long, narrow, steep-sided cut in the ground or on the ocean-floor
Down
- 1. A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses
- 2. When gas changes into dense liquid or solid
- 4. An area where sand, silt, clay or gravel collect at the mouth of a river
- 5. A large, continuous mass of land
- 6. Water deposited on the Earth in the form of rain, snow, hail, sleet or mist
- 8. water contained inside the Earth’s crust
- 9. When weathered rock is moved
- 12. Smallest of the large ice masses that moves slowly
- 13. Flat or rolling land found along coastlines or inland
- 14. A break in the Earth’s crust that results from when two plates grind against each other
- 16. An imaginary line that runs through Earth’s center from North to South Pole.
- 23. A giant ocean wave