Intro to Geography Terms
Across
- 1. Life would be difficult to survive here.
- 4. Relationship between the living and nonliving things on Earth.
- 5. Top layer of Earth where plants grow.
- 7. The height above sea level.
- 8. Rough _________ would make traveling very difficult.
- 10. The typical weather over 30+ years.
- 14. A hurricane that occurs in the Pacific Ocean.
- 15. Looks like a mountain with the top cut off.
- 16. Not made by humans.
- 17. An Indian word for mountains.
- 20. Plain This would be a great place to farm because the land is fertile due to the reoccurring flooding.
- 21. The material that accumulates in a river and gets deposited on the land when river floods.
- 23. Examples include: hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow.
- 24. Produces damaging winds and heavy rain.
Down
- 2. A major subdivision of a continent.
- 3. Soil that is ideal for growing crops is considered__________.
- 6. Water that feeds into larger rivers or lakes.
- 9. The lowlands between mountains.
- 11. Jamaica is an example of this.
- 12. A type of island.
- 13. Florida is an example of this.
- 15. Treeless, wide open spaces.
- 17. Large chunk of ice.
- 18. A massive wave usually caused by an earthquake.
- 19. Where the river ends and dumps into a larger body of water.
- 22. This heavy rainfall is essential to those living in South Asia.