Across
- 2. cycle the regular movement of water from ocean, to air, to ground to ocean
- 4. a narrow piece of land that connect two large land masses and separate two bodies of water
- 7. also meridians; imaginary lines that run from pole to pole measuring distance from east to west
- 8. substances from the earth that are not living or made of living things
- 10. large body of ice that moves across the surfac of the earth; they destroy forests, carving out valleys, altering the course of rivers and wearing down mountains
- 12. a high area surrounding land usually has at least one steep side called a cliff
- 13. hills, plateaus, plains four major landforms
- 15. the wearing away of the Earth's surface by wind, flowing water and glaciers
- 16. resources resources that can never be replaced such as minerals and fossil fuels
- 22. the changing of liquid into the vapor of gas
- 23. fuels fuels including coal, oil, gas that formed from plants and animals
- 24. rose the directin marker that shows the cardianl directions
- 25. silacone, oxygen, aluminum, iron, magnesium
- 27. when water seeps into the cracks in a rock and freezes, expanding and causing the rock to split. Tree roots can also grow through rocks and cause them to split apart
- 28. sections of rock that float on the mantle
- 30. resources resources that can be replaced such as forests and animal life
- 32. when water dissolves some chemicals in rocks causing them to disintegrate or when iron parts of the rock rust and they break apart
- 34. an imaginary line that runs through the center of the earth between the north and south pointing towards the North Star
- 35. iron and nickel
- 36. a bend in the earth's crust
- 37. water water below the earth's surface which supplies wells and springs
- 38. a certain measurement on the Earth's surface
Down
- 1. going out
- 3. the method geographers divide areas of the world such as land type, plant and animal life
- 5. a process that breaks down rocks
- 6. part of the earth where life is found
- 9. goods brought in to one coutry to another
- 11. shelf the underwater acention of a continent
- 14. the shape of physical features of the Earth's surface
- 17. a group of closely scattered islands
- 18. earth's surface that is land called the Earth's crust
- 19. purple dye
- 20. location the precise location of a place on the globe
- 21. the study of the earth and of the ways people live and work on it
- 26. a brake in the Earth's surface
- 29. air carries more moisture thatn cool air
- 31. resources element from the earth that are not made by people, but can be used by people
- 33. the way of life of people in different places