Across
- 2. It would take a __________ to drive around it at 55 rm per hour.
- 5. About one fifth of the land is ________ . These places are the hottest and the driest places on Earth.
- 7. The lowest temperature ever recorded was minus 88.3 C in ____________ . ___________ is the coldest ans windiest place in the world.
- 9. The land near the equator us called the ___________ .
- 10. Earth is a huge ball of rock spinning in ________.
- 12. Thick, green forests called _____________ grow in tropics.
- 13. The Earth ___________ about 40.000 km around the equator.
Down
- 1. Near the equator it is ________ all the year round and it rains nearly every day.
- 3. The highest ____________ ever recorded was 57.7 C in the Sahara Desert, in Africa.
- 4. The Earth ___________ about 6.000 million million million tonnes.
- 6. The top ________ of the Earth is called the northern hemisphere and the bottom _____ of the world is called the southern hemisphere.
- 8. Tropical rainforests contain over half of all the types of plants and ___________ in the world.
- 11. The __________ is an imaginary line around the widest part.
