Geography Vocab.

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Across
  1. 1. a spring that throws a jet of hot water or steam into the air
  2. 2. a high, rock-covered flatland in the Sahara
  3. 6. a measure of the amount of energy in food
  4. 7. a very large ecosystem such as a desert, forest, wetlands,or grasslands
  5. 8. unable to read or write
  6. 9. a type of brick that is made of clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun
  7. 13. the movement of water from Earth's surface into the soil
  8. 15. one half of a sphere
  9. 17. all the plant life in a particular region
Down
  1. 1. a large mass of ice found near Earth's poles
  2. 3. the process of adjusting to lower oxygen level sat high elevation
  3. 4. a system in which a country rules another area as a colony
  4. 5. a group of territories, people's, and or nations ruled by a single authority
  5. 10. a sever shortage of food that results in wide-spread hunger
  6. 11. a version of a language that is spoken in a certain region
  7. 12. to conduct a trade by exchanging goods and services instead of money
  8. 14. a geographic region in which there is to little rainfall
  9. 16. a community of all living things inan area and the environment in which they live in