Places Near and Far

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A body of water surrounded by land (4)
  2. 5. An imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north (7)
  3. 7. A land mass that is surrounded by water (6)
  4. 9. The ___ point of the Earth's axis (9)
  5. 11. The natural world around us (11)
  6. 12. A large mass of land projecting into a body of water (9)
  7. 13. A politically organized body of people under a single government (7)
  8. 15. The extended spatial location of something (6)
  9. 16. The prevailing psychological state (7)

Down

  1. 1. The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation (5)
  2. 3. United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (6)
  3. 4. The ___ point of the Earth's axis (9)
  4. 6. Whether it's rainy, sunny or windy outside (7)
  5. 8. One of the large landmasses of the earth (9)
  6. 10. Half of the terrestrial globe (10)
  7. 14. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river (6)