World Geography Crossword Puzzle! Brooke Ellis Geo/7

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