Geography

2. The day to day climatic conditions.
5. A climate zone with very low rainfall between 250 mm to 500 mm per year that is characterised by large grassy plains, small bushes and shrubs and large temperature differentials between day and night.
7. The process where small droplets of water in clouds combine into larger droplets that eventually become too heavy and fall as either rain, hail, snow or sleet.
10. A period/season in a location’s yearly weather cycle that experiences heavy rainfall. This is in contrast to a ‘dry season’ which has decreased amounts of rainfall.
11. The process where the ground can no longer absorb any more moisture and excess water runs across the surface of land and flows into streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and dams.
13. A large mountain range in South Asia extending across 2400 kilometres through Pakistan, India, Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. Mt Everest is located in the Himalayas.
15. A good is any made-made product, for example a car or a loaf of bread.
16. Animal life.

1. A climate zone that receives less than an average 250 mm rainfall a year. Evaporation is very high in hot deserts.
3. Height of the surface of the Earth above sea level.
4. The average types of weather, including seasonal variations, experienced by a place over a long period of time.
6. A world view that informs ways of achieving sustainability. Ethical stewardship supports the careful management of environmental resources for the benefit of present and future generations. Stewards do not own resources, they manage them.
8. An interconnected system existing in a particular region, where animals and plants exist in communities and interact with the environment around them.
9. Is the area where land meets the sea or ocean.
12. One of four natural climatic divisions of the year, summer, autumn, winter and spring. Some climates also are divided into wet or dry seasons.
14. A porous deposit of rock that acts as a filter to store groundwater that is accessible through the drilling of wells.