Unit 5 Crossword
Across
- 3. is the third-largest island in the world and the largest island of Asia
- 8. the islands in the eastern part of Oceania
- 9. an Asian peninsula separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan
- 11. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance
- 13. is a peninsula in Southeast Asia
- 15. a group of islands
- 16. is a peninsula in Southeast Asia lying roughly southwest of China, and east of India
- 20. an Asian river that flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea
- 21. a place where fish are reared for commercial purposes
- 24. a river in east Asia, flowing from the Tibetan plateau through central China to the East China Sea
- 26. a layer in the earth's stratosphere
- 28. vast high plateau of southwestern China
- 30. is a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau
- 33. a floating sheet of ice permanently attached to a landmass
- 34. A river in northern India and Bangladesh that rises in the Himalayas and flows southwest
- 35. are the first inhabitants of New Zealand
- 36. a ring-shaped reef
Down
- 1. a large, distinguishable part of a continent
- 2. a community of living organisms
- 4. are the first inhabitants of Australia
- 5. a group of islands in the west Pacific
- 6. is a major river in Asia which flows through Pakistan
- 7. the largest coral reef in the world
- 10. a large peninsula of Antarctica
- 12. are areas with annual precipitation less than 250 millimeters and a mean temperature during the warmest month of less than 10°C
- 14. a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment
- 17. is the second-longest river in Asia
- 18. is the largest alluvial plain of eastern Asia
- 19. a wind system that influences large climatic regions and reverses direction seasonally
- 22. an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state
- 23. the remote and usually uninhabited inland regions of Australia
- 25. an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan
- 27. a Pacific island to the north of Australia
- 29. a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet and carried out to sea
- 31. the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania
- 32. a triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river
- 34. a desert in central China