Geography: Earth Enviroments

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Mountain that erupts with lava (7)
  2. 6. The atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere (10)
  3. 8. The solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle (11)
  4. 9. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos (4)
  5. 11. One of the large landmasses of the earth (plural) (10)
  6. 13. The breakdown or alteration of rock at or near the surface of the Earth. (10)
  7. 15. The prevailing psychological state (7)
  8. 16. A crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (8)

Down

  1. 1. Condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind (7)
  2. 3. Layer of air around the Earth (10)
  3. 4. The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth where living organisms exist (9)
  4. 5. The natural process of laying down a ___ of something (10)
  5. 7. A relatively flat highland (7)
  6. 10. All the plant life in a particular region or period (10)
  7. 12. Extensive tract of level open land (5)
  8. 14. The event of something being raised upward (9)