The Ground you walk on: Canada's Physical Geography
Across
- 3. Flat elevated landform
- 7. Moving giant slabs of rock that make up the Earth's crust.
- 11. Vesuvius, Etna, Mount St Helen's are all famous examples of these
- 12. The point on the Earth's surface directly above where an Earthquake occurs
- 14. A region around the edge of the largest ocean on the planet, with a high concentration of volcanoes
- 17. Half of Canada is covered in one, rocky land
- 19. The removal of soil by H2O
- 20. A sudden violent shaking of the Earth's crust, causing great devastation
- 22. A plate boundary, where plates are sliding past each other
- 23. Steep sided, elevated, triangular landforms
Down
- 1. Where tectonic plates meet
- 2. Region of the Earth's mantle, liquid molten rock
- 4. The removal of soil and stone by wind
- 5. The removal of soil and stones by glaciers
- 6. An instrument used to detect earthquakes
- 8. The transfer of heat, through liquid, causing movement
- 9. A plate boundary, where plates are moving towards each other
- 10. The solid part of the Earth's crust
- 13. A plate boundary, where the plates are moving apart
- 15. Human activity, in which stone and minerals are dug out of the Earth's crust
- 16. Low lying land, often between two mountainous regions
- 18. A natural or artificial feature of the Earth's crust
- 21. Flat landform that covers more than 1/3 of the Earth's surface