Midterm Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 2. a high-speed high altitude airstream
  2. 3. Created by Wind deposition
  3. 7. The Earth system for Ice
  4. 8. the layer of the atmosphere that burns up meteroids
  5. 9. Transfering heat through direct contact
  6. 11. Blocks harmful UV rays
  7. 14. All living things on Earth are part of this Earth system
  8. 15. The tiniest grains of rocks
  9. 17. 0-17km above Earth's surface
  10. 20. The wind belt near the equator
  11. 22. Flow of wind from the ocean to the coastline
  12. 23. How the Sun's energy gets transferred to Earth
Down
  1. 1. Water found underground
  2. 4. The measurement of compactness of a substance
  3. 5. Well-tested explanation
  4. 6. The warming of the earth's surface due the trapping of greenhouse gases
  5. 10. The movement of thermal energy in a fluid
  6. 12. rocks grinding away at other rocks
  7. 13. the horizontal movement of air from high pressure to low pressure
  8. 16. all the landforms on Earth are in this Earth system
  9. 18. a rule that describes
  10. 19. Another name for physical weathering
  11. 21. Causes rocks to turn reddish orange