Across
- 2. A small kind of irregular rounded humps
- 4. Somewhat salty to the taste
- 9. An imaginary line north or south of the Earth’s equator and parallel to it
- 12. force created by an object passing over a surface that would cause the object in motion to accelerate in the opposite direction of motion
- 13. the science that deals with the earth
- 15. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
- 17. The average weather in a particular place over a long period of time
- 18. One half of the Earth
- 19. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed by cooling.
- 22. A meridian of 0 degrees latitude that runs through the original sire of the royal observatory and greewhich, England and from which other longitudes are reckoned east and west
- 27. An imaginary line from the north pole to south pole at 180 degrees longtitude
- 30. A well made by boring into the Earth
- 31. a specialist in geology
- 33. An island that has geologic characteristics of a continental mass land
- 36. The region between 223-1/2 degrees north latitude and 23-1/2 degrees south latitude
- 39. When the very last of its kind dies and there is n more left on Earth
- 40. one of the numerous strike-slip faults between segments of mid-ocean ridges and rises along which lateral movement of coastal plates occur
- 41. the time of the physical formation and development of the earth
- 45. the lends of fresh water found underground
Down
- 1. The amount of the moisture or water vapor in the atmosphere
- 3. A shaking of the Earth that is volcanic in origin
- 5. Older volcanic islands that have at one time been covered with water, allowing the island to be covered with coral reefs, and then raised up exposing the reef
- 6. the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles
- 7. A volcanic island that has not been covered up with coral and raised up
- 8. An imaginary line around the Earth 23-1/2 north of the equator
- 10. Equatorial ocean regions noted for dead calms and light fluctuating winds
- 11. A deep trench in the ocean floor about 60-100 east of the Mariana Islands
- 14. An imaginary line around the north connecting the North and South pole
- 16. A fault in which the development is largely in the direction of the strike
- 20. The level below which the ground is saturated with water
- 21. A scientist who studies volcanoes
- 23. the layer of Earth just below the crust where we all live.
- 24. asleep; inactive
- 25. A circular reef with a lagoon in the center
- 26. hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.
- 27. A very small island usually associated with a larger island or atoll
- 28. Ain imaginary line around the Earth 23-1/2 south of the equator
- 29. When the lava stays under water and isn’t able to create an island
- 32. One of the series of last segments of thin mobile blocks that make up the crust of the Earth according to the theory of plate tectonics.
- 34. A continuous potion of a curved line
- 35. Old magama that oozed out of the volcano and took a different form when it cooled
- 37. Earth’s outermost layer
- 38. Moved up through the volcanic tube and blown out of the volcano
- 42. Loosely, a windstorm with a violent, whirling movement
- 43. A violent tropical cyclone occurring in the western pacific, Indian Ocean, chiefly during the period from July to October
- 44. To eat into; to wear away
- 45. The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place