World Geography Crossword Puzzle! Brooke Ellis Geo/7

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Across
  1. 2. All of the bodies of water including oceans, rivers, and lakes make up this.
  2. 8. Glaciers are large bodies of ice that move across earth's surface.
  3. 10. Freshwater that is lying beneath the planet's surface.
  4. 11. Volcanoes, floods, and hurricanes that help shape the earth's surface.
  5. 16. When plates squeeze the earth's surface creating bends in layers of rocks.
  6. 18. When glaciers move, they carry along rocks and soil called these.
  7. 19. Human geographers study sociology and anthropology to learn how people have interacted with their environment over time.
  8. 20. The removal of salt from the ocean water.
  9. 21. Made up of hot dense rock also known as magma.
  10. 22. The theory that all of the continents were once joined together and have broken apart and drifted.
  11. 26. The part of earth that supports life.
  12. 27. Used to study the environment, the weather, and human settlement patterns.
Down
  1. 1. When cool air returns water to earth in the form of rain, sleet, or snow.
  2. 3. A community of plants and animals that depend on one another and their surroundings for survival.
  3. 4. To help understand how the location of resources affects the ways people transport, use goods, and provide services.
  4. 5. The creation of mountains and volcanoes by the moving of the plates
  5. 6. Made up of iron and nickel.
  6. 7. The study of weather and weather forecasting.
  7. 9. The exact latitude and longitude at which a place is found on the globe.
  8. 12. When a sea plate collides with and dives beneath a continental plate creating mountain ranges.
  9. 13. All land makes up this.
  10. 14. Natural springs and handmade wells allow people to retrieve groundwater.
  11. 15. About 78%nitrogen, 21% oxygen and about 1% other gases such as argon.
  12. 17. Describes a place's location in relation to another place.
  13. 23. A fertile, yellow-gray soil that can provide mineral rich soil.
  14. 24. When the layers grind or slide past each other and create cracks.
  15. 25. Made up of plates.