Across
- 6. The water that falls on the ground as rain, snow, sleet, hail or mist.
- 7. A long, narrow band of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
- 8. To circle around something.
- 9. The average weather in an area over a long period of time.
- 12. A star which in fact is the source of all energy on Earth.
- 14. The process in which Earth’s surfaces are worn away by natural forces.
- 16. This makes up three percent of the water on Earth.
- 18. One of two days each year when the sun is directly overhead at the Equator.
- 19. A lowland area between two higher sides such as mountains or hills.
- 21. One layer of this is the air we breathe.
- 22. The process by which weathered bits of rock are moved elsewhere by water, wind or ice.
- 24. A large, unbroken mass of land.
- 25. Melted rock in the Earth.
Down
- 1. The subsystem that consists of the Earth’s water.
- 2. A large body of ice that moves slowly across land.
- 3. We live on this layer of the Earth.
- 4. One of two days a year when the sun reaches its northernmost or southernmost point.
- 5. A long, narrow area that extends into a river, a lake or an ocean.
- 10. An event in which the ground shakes or trembles, brought about by the collision of tectonic plates.
- 11. This exists in the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.
- 13. The longest underwater mountain range which is longer than any mountain range on land.
- 15. A complete trip of the Earth around the sun.
- 17. A giant ocean wave caused by volcanic eruptions or the movement of the earth under the ocean.
- 20. A place where two tectonic plates grind against each other.
- 23. A thick, hot layer of dense rock that surrounds the outer core.
- 26. An imaginary line that runs through the Earth’s center from the North Pole to the South Pole.
