World Geography

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Across
  1. 2. cycle the regular movement of water from ocean, to air, to ground to ocean
  2. 4. a narrow piece of land that connect two large land masses and separate two bodies of water
  3. 7. also meridians; imaginary lines that run from pole to pole measuring distance from east to west
  4. 8. substances from the earth that are not living or made of living things
  5. 10. large body of ice that moves across the surfac of the earth; they destroy forests, carving out valleys, altering the course of rivers and wearing down mountains
  6. 12. a high area surrounding land usually has at least one steep side called a cliff
  7. 13. hills, plateaus, plains four major landforms
  8. 15. the wearing away of the Earth's surface by wind, flowing water and glaciers
  9. 16. resources resources that can never be replaced such as minerals and fossil fuels
  10. 22. the changing of liquid into the vapor of gas
  11. 23. fuels fuels including coal, oil, gas that formed from plants and animals
  12. 24. rose the directin marker that shows the cardianl directions
  13. 25. silacone, oxygen, aluminum, iron, magnesium
  14. 27. when water seeps into the cracks in a rock and freezes, expanding and causing the rock to split. Tree roots can also grow through rocks and cause them to split apart
  15. 28. sections of rock that float on the mantle
  16. 30. resources resources that can be replaced such as forests and animal life
  17. 32. when water dissolves some chemicals in rocks causing them to disintegrate or when iron parts of the rock rust and they break apart
  18. 34. an imaginary line that runs through the center of the earth between the north and south pointing towards the North Star
  19. 35. iron and nickel
  20. 36. a bend in the earth's crust
  21. 37. water water below the earth's surface which supplies wells and springs
  22. 38. a certain measurement on the Earth's surface
Down
  1. 1. going out
  2. 3. the method geographers divide areas of the world such as land type, plant and animal life
  3. 5. a process that breaks down rocks
  4. 6. part of the earth where life is found
  5. 9. goods brought in to one coutry to another
  6. 11. shelf the underwater acention of a continent
  7. 14. the shape of physical features of the Earth's surface
  8. 17. a group of closely scattered islands
  9. 18. earth's surface that is land called the Earth's crust
  10. 19. purple dye
  11. 20. location the precise location of a place on the globe
  12. 21. the study of the earth and of the ways people live and work on it
  13. 26. a brake in the Earth's surface
  14. 29. air carries more moisture thatn cool air
  15. 31. resources element from the earth that are not made by people, but can be used by people
  16. 33. the way of life of people in different places