physical geography crossword puzzle

4. Nuclear power plant in Russia that had an explosion in 1986 and released radioactive materials into the air.
6. The height of land above sea level.
7. The process by which fertile land becomes desert typically as a result drought deforestation inappropriate agriculture.
11. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
12. A barren region with little or no rainfall usually dry with no trees.
13. Man made river connecting two bodies of water.
14. The body created by damming a river or stream
16. Mixes woodland, grassland, biome short and wet and

1. Overall weather in an area over a long period of time.
2. Major winds in the Indian ocean that blew into India for half the year and blew away from India for another half.
3. The condition of earths atmosphere at a particular time and place.
5. The removal of trees faster that forests can replace themselves.
8. Air pollution by mixture of smoke and fog.
9. A piece of land is created by draining water from an area.
10. Dry, treeless, Grassland
15. A region of evergreen coniferous forest below the arctic and subarctic tundra regions