Geography Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. - a high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean
  2. 5. - a place on the coast where vessels may find shelter
  3. 7. - a low area of land between hills or mountains
  4. 8. - big land mass, 7 of them
  5. 10. - a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles
  6. 12. - A separate piece of land like jamaica
  7. 16. - a fertile or green area in an arid region
  8. 18. - the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments
  9. 19. - the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas.
  10. 20. meridian - is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth
  11. 21. - imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
  12. 22. - measurement of distance north or south of the Equator
  13. 23. - circle on the earth's surface reaching from the north pole to the south pole
  14. 24. - land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger body
Down
  1. 1. - enormous stretches of flat grassland with moderate temperatures, moderate rainfall, and few trees
  2. 2. - the flat, low-lying plain that sometimes forms at the mouth of a river from deposits of sediments
  3. 4. - a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it
  4. 6. - someone who makes maps
  5. 9. - an opening in a planet or moon's crust through which molten rock, hot gases, and other materials erupt
  6. 11. - the measurement east or west of the meridian
  7. 13. - hot and dry area
  8. 14. Zones - geographic region within which the same standard time is used
  9. 15. - line extending around the Earth parallel to the equator
  10. 17. - A connecting piece of water