Investigating Australia's Physical Environments
Across
- 1. A line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- 6. Pertaining to or characterized by change of form.
- 10. The study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
- 13. An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
- 15. A line that runs from east to west and helps determine temperature.
- 17. A plant adapted for growth under dry conditions.
- 18. The act of catching water.
Down
- 2. A large body of intrusive igneous rock believed to have crystallized at a considerable depth below the earth's surface.
- 3. The ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors.
- 4. A substance that protects the plants.
- 5. Forces pertaining to, causing or resulting from structural deformation of the earth's crust.
- 7. A type of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes.
- 8. A line that runs from north to south and helps determine time.
- 9. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of sediment.
- 11. Half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere.
- 12. Any of various dwarf Australian eucalyptuses that sometimes form large tracts of brushwood.
- 14. A broad, low-lying, typically crescent-shaped mound of sandy or loamy matter that is formed by the wind.
- 16. Growing from a dormant or adventitious bud.