Geography Crossword Puzzles
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 …
Mining & Tailings
sling: long object that hooks to a piece of gear when stuck, rubber duck: a clean up machine for shovel pits, dispatch: personnel behind the screen , grader: …
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 …
River Landforms
thalweg : the fastest area of flow within the river channel , hjulstrom: graph showing relationship between velocity, sediment size and fluvial processes , …
Tectonics of the Plates
pangaea:a single land mass from over 200 million years ago that had since formed today’s modern continents, crust: the outer most layer of earth’s surface …
South Asia Physical Features
deccan plateau : where most of india's dynasties were located, ganges : this river flows through india and bangladesh, cyclone : storm marked by high winds and …
The Polar Climate
poles : where do we find polar climates?, none : which foods grow well in a polar climate?, wind : which weather happens almost continually in a polar climate?, …
Asia Revision
asia : the continent which we have studied this term, rainforest : a type of forest found near the equator, tokyo : the capital city of japan, dense : the …
Plate Boundaries
outer core : the third layer of the earth's layers, pangea : the name of the super-continent, convergent : when two plates come together the boundary is called, …
Regions in Asia
asia : biggest continent in the world, central asia : comprises one-third of the continent of asia., ulaanbaatar : capital city of mongolia, east asia : a …
Medieval Castles
alcohol : beverage safer to drink than water during middle age, dungeon : place that has jail cells for criminals, bailey : walls surrounding a courtyard, …
Rock Puzzle
lava: molten rock that has reached the earth's surface., cooling: 2nd process of making an igneous rock, metamorphic: a rock formed by extreme heat and …
Earth’s Crust
fault : a break in the rock of the earth’s crust along which there has been displacement (movement)., focus : an earthquake’s point of origin within the …
Geological Processes
constructive: ______________ processes - natural phenomena such as volcanoes, rivers, and weather patterns that build up landmasses on earth's surface, …
