Geography Vocabulary #2

2. Process by which rock is broken down into small pieces.
6. Makes up 97% of Earth’s water supply.
10. Place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet.
11. Winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of land.
12. It takes 365.25 days to complete one
13. The spread of desert like conditions is known as what?
15. a large area of slow-moving ice called.
16. The short-term changes in the air for a given place and time.

1. Planting trees to replace lost forestland is known as what?
3. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
4. Water that is invisible and in gas form.
5. We need _________ more than anything else
7. Resources that cannot be replaced is known as what?
8. Theory that suggest Earth’s surface is divided into a dozen or so slow-moving plates.
9. Nonrenewable resources that formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals is known as what?
14. Region’s average weather conditions over a long period.