Geography Crossword Puzzles
Disasters and Catastrophes
quake : to shake or vibrate usually from shock or instability, disastrous : calamitous, fatal : causing death, wreck : something (often a ship or parts of it) …
Ice is Nice: The North and South Poles
skin : people use this part of the animal to make huts or tents., blubber : this is under the fur and skin and keeps animals like polar bears and walruses …
Forestry Review
old growth: forest that has been untouched for 200+ years, second growth: forest that has formed by secondary succession, surface: type of fire that rangers …
Layers of the Ocean
titanic: a famous shipwreck that became a movie, seagrass: a type of marine plant , pressure: this is stronger at the bottom of the ocean, photosynthesis: …
Geo Terms: Divide - Harbor
elevation: elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain., gorge: a narrow hollow with steep, rocky sides, worn by a stream or torrent of water. , …
Healthy Eating / Green Cities / Insects
demand : something that must be done or given, developing : a poor country that is trying to become richer ; _________ country, footprint : the effect humans …
Geo Terms: Channel - Dike
coast: the edge or margin of the land next to the sea; the seashore. , dell: a small vale with woods. , creek: a small inlet; a recess in the shore of the sea …
Geology Vocabulary
extinct: a volcano that has not erupted for thousands of years and is not expected to erupt again., volcano: an opening in the earth's crust from which molten …
Tectonic Mountains - Vocabulary
sediment : a deposit of eroded earth material, dome : a landform with sedimentary strata that looks like and upside-down bowl, basin : the opposite of a dome, …
Riverine and Arid Landforms
delta : fan-shaped, low-lying area of deposits at the mouth of a river, drainage basin : area providing water to a river system , estuary : river mouth …
Coastal Landforms
atoll : ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands encircling a shallow lagoon, archipelago : group or chain of islands, bay : …
Weathering and Rocks Revision
granite : a rock prone to hydrolysis due to the presence of feldspar, carbonation : caco3 reacts with acid water and forms calcium bicarbonate which is soluble …
Fossil Review
relative age : a rock is its age compared to the ages of other rocks, cast : this part of a fossil forms as the result of a mold, petrified : fossils form when …
River Terms
irrigation : system of digging canals to bring river water to crops. , flood plain : water floods and deposits nutrient rich silt and minerals every year making …
Growing Media Components
pasteurization : the process of partially sterilizing a substance through heat or radiation, loam : a soil with equal measures of sand, silt, and clay, …
Canadian Taiga
wolverine : this animal is endangered in the canadian taiga due to hunting., spruce : an example of an autotroph in the canadian taiga could be a _____ tree., …
The Erie Canal
bridge!: what drivers would yell in order to warn passengers standing on top of the boat to duck., newimmigrants: how did the construction of the erie canal …
Yukon Mining
fen: an area of low, flat, wetland, quartz: a hard mineral, often in crystal form , molybdenum: a silver-grey metal that breaks easily and is used in some alloy …
The Sinking of Venice
consistent:always behaving in the same way, barrier:an object like a fence that prevents people from moving forward from one place to another, overwhelming:very …
Explorers of the New Land
great lakes : cartier was given credit for finding the st. lawrence river that connected the ocean to one of the ________., spain : the area claimed by all the …
