Unit 1: Physical Geography

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Across
  1. 5. Scientific theory that explains how processes within the Earth form continents and cause their movement
  2. 7. A specific environment that's home to living things suited for that place and climate.
  3. 10. The exact positions of a place on Earth.
  4. 11. Large landmass that rises above an ocean
  5. 12. A book of maps
  6. 13. Flow of people, goods, ideas, and information across the Earth's surface.
  7. 15. Something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or freshwater, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans.
  8. 16. A boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other
Down
  1. 1. A half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles
  2. 2. A boundary where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally
  3. 3. Geometrically subdividing the Earth into 24 sections separated by 15° of longitude which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes
  4. 4. A place's position to other places
  5. 6. the line between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next
  6. 8. A set of numbers that identify a precise location on Earth using a grid system of latitude and longitude
  7. 9. A boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each othe
  8. 14. An imaginary line around the middle of the planet, equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres