Tongariro Crossing

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Across
  1. 2. Abbreviation for the Government department responsible for managing Tongariro National Park
  2. 4. A term for the type of erosion which occurs from streams which flow off the TVC mountains
  3. 7. The desert which lies to the east of the TVC volcanoes
  4. 9. This volcano erupted 25,400 years ago, covering the TVC in ash and pyroclastic material
  5. 12. A term which refers to the erosion of material through weathering
  6. 13. The process of an environment going from barren to clothed with climax vegetation
  7. 15. This pioneer plant acts as a seedbed for larger plants
  8. 17. This type of forest commonly grows between 950-1500m altitude
  9. 19. The second of three glacial zones, where plucking & abrasion carve U-shaped valleys
  10. 20. The the vertical layering of a habitat; the arrangement of vegetation in layers
  11. 22. The volcanic rock type which is predominantly found in the TVC
  12. 24. The type of volcano that exists in the TVC
  13. 25. Type of rainfall caused when moist air is forced over mountains
  14. 27. The first plants to colonise an environment after a volcanic eruption
  15. 28. This was attempted by Ngāti Tūwharetoa in the 1880s, but unsuccessful due to poor soils and livestock disease
  16. 30. The iwi which presides over the TVC mountains (Ngāti _________)
  17. 33. Freezing conditions common in the Tongariro alpine environment
  18. 34. This trench is one of the largest sources of
Down
  1. 1. This plate subducts beneath the Indo-Australian Plate to help form the TVC
  2. 3. The Tongariro National Park has been a world heritage site since 1993, as designated by this United Nations organisation
  3. 5. Height above sea level, which increases along the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
  4. 6. The side of a mountain that faces the incoming wind.
  5. 8. This plant stabilize and protect the environment by clump densley together
  6. 10. The type of vegetation adapted to survive in the Rangipo Desert or other very dry environments
  7. 11. Recipient of the sacred Tongariro peaks gifted by Chief Horonuku Te Heuheu Tūkino IV in 1887
  8. 14. The third of three glacial zones, where melting deposits moraines and reshapes valleys
  9. 16. The smallest TVC volcano
  10. 18. DOC released this type of beetle into the TVC to control invasive heather in the 1990s
  11. 21. hazard in NZ
  12. 23. The first of three glacial zones, where snow compacts into glacial ice
  13. 26. Dry area on the leeward side of a mountain range
  14. 29. The largest satellite cone in the TVC
  15. 31. Sea located west of New Zealand, where moisture that forms rain in Whakapapa is collected by wind
  16. 32. The largest TVC volcano