Across
- 2. The wearing away of soil and rock by natural elements
- 4. Rain, hail and snow
- 5. The result of the collision of the India and Asia plates
- 9. A group of small islands
- 11. A dry valley or ravine
- 12. Having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation
- 15. A submarine mountain
- 16. An area of very little to no precipitation
- 18. A mass of rocks and sediment deposited by a glacier, typically as ridges at its edges or extremity
- 20. A large ice shelf north of Canada
- 21. An arête is a thin, almost knife-like, ridge of rock which is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. The arête is a thin ridge of rock that is left separating the two valleys.
- 22. A long narrow hilltop
Down
- 1. The degredation of land due to poor farming and land management
- 3. Pointed tip of a mountain
- 6. The area above the tree line in the mountains
- 7. An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides
- 8. A flat highland
- 9. One of the Earths coldest deserts
- 10. A slowly moving mass or river of ice
- 13. Mountain The result of one of Earth's plates sliding under another.
- 14. A quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or a gas
- 17. A pinnacle or ridge of ice on the surface of a glacier
- 19. A chain of high mountains