NMI History Vocabulary: Chapter 3
Across
- 2. An imaginary line north or south of the Earth’s equator and parallel to it
- 5. A very small island usually associated with a larger island or atoll
- 7. Loosely, a windstorm with a violent, whirling movement
- 8. force created by an object passing over a surface that would cause the object in motion to accelerate in the opposite direction of motion
- 10. Earth’s outermost layer
- 11. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
- 12. the lends of fresh water found underground
- 13. A meridian of 0 degrees latitude that runs through the original sire of the royal observatory and greewhich, England and from which other longitudes are reckoned east and west
- 17. When the very last of its kind dies and there is n more left on Earth
- 18. One half of the Earth
- 19. The level below which the ground is saturated with water
- 21. A scientist who studies volcanoes
- 22. Ain imaginary line around the Earth 23-1/2 south of the equator
- 23. The average weather in a particular place over a long period of time
- 25. When the lava stays under water and isn’t able to create an island
- 27. Older volcanic islands that have at one time been covered with water, allowing the island to be covered with coral reefs, and then raised up exposing the reef
- 30. To eat into; to wear away
- 32. one of the numerous strike-slip faults between segments of mid-ocean ridges and rises along which lateral movement of coastal plates occur
- 34. A circular reef with a lagoon in the center
- 37. Old magama that oozed out of the volcano and took a different form when it cooled
- 38. A volcanic island that has not been covered up with coral and raised up
- 39. A continuous potion of a curved line
- 40. the layer of Earth just below the crust where we all live.
- 43. One of the series of last segments of thin mobile blocks that make up the crust of the Earth according to the theory of plate tectonics.
- 45. A deep trench in the ocean floor about 60-100 east of the Mariana Islands
- 46. the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles
Down
- 1. The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
- 3. A well made by boring into the Earth
- 4. The amount of the moisture or water vapor in the atmosphere
- 6. a specialist in geology
- 9. asleep; inactive
- 10. An island that has geologic characteristics of a continental mass land
- 14. An imaginary line from the north pole to south pole at 180 degrees longtitude
- 15. A shaking of the Earth that is volcanic in origin
- 16. the science that deals with the earth
- 20. A small kind of irregular rounded humps
- 24. An imaginary line around the Earth 23-1/2 north of the equator
- 26. Moved up through the volcanic tube and blown out of the volcano
- 28. the time of the physical formation and development of the earth
- 29. Somewhat salty to the taste
- 31. An imaginary line around the north connecting the North and South pole
- 33. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed by cooling.
- 35. A fault in which the development is largely in the direction of the strike
- 36. Equatorial ocean regions noted for dead calms and light fluctuating winds
- 41. A violent tropical cyclone occurring in the western pacific, Indian Ocean, chiefly during the period from July to October
- 42. The region between 223-1/2 degrees north latitude and 23-1/2 degrees south latitude
- 44. hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.