Geography Crosswords

person who studies rocks and minerals, most minerals are only one _ , melted rock that flows onto earth's surface, nonliving material made of one or …

250 _ : alfred wegener hypothesized that pangaea began to break apart about how many years ago?, the process that creates new sea floor as plates move …

a vibration that travels through earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake, the slow moving-moving lava that hardens to form rough …

when water seeps into cracks, then freezes, we call it this, these mountains in the us are very smooth and eroded, physical feature of earth's …

most abundant element in the universe, high silica lava, where tectonic plates meet, largest layer of the earth, crust and upper mantle, separating …

the transformation of energy that is present in the sun, internal heat of the earth, one of the greenhouse gas, focuses on protecting and restoring …

the uppermost layer of vegetation in terrestrial biome, a narrow stratum of rapid temperature change in the ocean and lakes, a terrestrial biome at …

the property of water that allows objects to sink even big ships, the water that contains salts and minerals, the water that can be found in glaciers …

prehistoric remains, it's relative, used to weigh things, same number of protons in the nucleus, the material from a liquid that settles to the …

when mountains are formed by a tectonic plate convergence, this force, in the earth's mantle, causes the tectonic plates to move, movement where two …

the part of the river near the sea, which is affected the rise and fall of the tide, steep, fast flowing section of a river with steep-sided, v-shaped …

a type of erosion process; water reacts with chemicals and dissolves rocks, a type of river profile; a line representing the change in gradient …

the natural world of land, water, air, plants, and animals, material that is able to be readily decomposed or broken down by biological means, …

a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds, falling ice that are in the …

the movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water, a region of rock that formed together as a single rock …

group of parts working together, the ability to cause change, gases surrounding earth, non-living parts of earth, water parts of earth, frozen parts …

slow moving forms of ice, the area between the equator and a pole, the upper layer of soil, hot, liquid rock, a deposit of sand and soil at the mouth …

type of weathering that alters the composition and mineralogy, difference in height from place to place on the land’s surface, weathering by frost …

slime, is a slippery liquid, a current day shelled mollusk with tentacles, small aquatic snails with a shell that is broadly conical in shape and a …

the process where primary producers use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars, releasing oxygen, the conversion of nitrogen gas …

an ecosystem's abilty to maintain equilibrium, funnel-shaped areas of land where all the water drains to the same body of water, water that has soaked …

what is under the earth that keeps the ground together, gases surrounding the earth is called, the layer under mountains and oceans, the layer below …

dinosaurs died out, the longest unit of time of the geological time scale is the, an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or …

a vein of igneous rock that runs perpendicular to the strata, usually a combination of two or more minerals, a surface of erosion that separates one …

a supply or source of water, the process where groundwater becomes surface water, any water that falls to earth from clouds, when water can't easily …

a flat highland, a large stream of water that runs through the land to another body of water, an imaginary line around the middle of the earth, land …

hottest part of the earth, rock containing metals, rock laid down in layers, commonest minerals in rocks, rock changed from another type, breaking …

empty, dry, rocky area that makes up much of the desert, qaddafi was this type of leader, vital to the success of egypt's agriculture, areas of soft …

the wearing away and removal of rock by the sea, where eroded rocks are hurdled against a cliff wearing it away, where eroded rocks hit against each …

a symbol that shows the cardinal directions north, south, east, west, used to show the overall distribution of the population within a particular area …