NMI History Vocabulary: Chapter 3

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Across
  1. 2. An imaginary line north or south of the Earth’s equator and parallel to it
  2. 5. A very small island usually associated with a larger island or atoll
  3. 7. Loosely, a windstorm with a violent, whirling movement
  4. 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
  5. 10. Earth’s outermost layer
  6. 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.
  7. 12. the lends of fresh water found underground
  8. 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
  9. 17. When the very last of its kind dies and there is n more left on Earth
  10. 18. One half of the Earth
  11. 19. The level below which the ground is saturated with water
  12. 21. A scientist who studies volcanoes
  13. 22. Ain imaginary line around the Earth 23-1/2 south of the equator
  14. 23. The average weather in a particular place over a long period of time
  15. 25. When the lava stays under water and isn’t able to create an island
  16. 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
  17. 30. To eat into; to wear away
  18. 32. one of the numerous strike-slip faults between segments of mid-ocean ridges and rises along which lateral movement of coastal plates occur
  19. 34. A circular reef with a lagoon in the center
  20. 37. Old magama that oozed out of the volcano and took a different form when it cooled
  21. 38. A volcanic island that has not been covered up with coral and raised up
  22. 39. A continuous potion of a curved line
  23. 40. the layer of Earth just below the crust where we all live.
  24. 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.
  25. 45. A deep trench in the ocean floor about 60-100 east of the Mariana Islands
  26. 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. 1. The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
  2. 3. A well made by boring into the Earth
  3. 4. The amount of the moisture or water vapor in the atmosphere
  4. 6. a specialist in geology
  5. 9. asleep; inactive
  6. 10. An island that has geologic characteristics of a continental mass land
  7. 14. An imaginary line from the north pole to south pole at 180 degrees longtitude
  8. 15. A shaking of the Earth that is volcanic in origin
  9. 16. the science that deals with the earth
  10. 20. A small kind of irregular rounded humps
  11. 24. An imaginary line around the Earth 23-1/2 north of the equator
  12. 26. Moved up through the volcanic tube and blown out of the volcano
  13. 28. the time of the physical formation and development of the earth
  14. 29. Somewhat salty to the taste
  15. 31. An imaginary line around the north connecting the North and South pole
  16. 33. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed by cooling.
  17. 35. A fault in which the development is largely in the direction of the strike
  18. 36. Equatorial ocean regions noted for dead calms and light fluctuating winds
  19. 41. A violent tropical cyclone occurring in the western pacific, Indian Ocean, chiefly during the period from July to October
  20. 42. The region between 223-1/2 degrees north latitude and 23-1/2 degrees south latitude
  21. 44. hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.