Geography Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. Half of the terrestrial globe (10)
  2. 9. Something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things (8)
  3. 13. An established line of travel or access (5)
  4. 14. A ___ drawn on a map connecting points of equal height (11)
  5. 15. A map designed to assist navigation by air or sea (5)

Down

  1. 1. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (5)
  2. 2. A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions (4)
  3. 3. A circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through (11)
  4. 4. The event of something being raised upward (9)
  5. 5. A drawing intended to explain how something works (7)
  6. 7. A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations (10)
  7. 8. A chart with ___ whose lengths are proportional to quantities (8)
  8. 10. The angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator (8)
  9. 11. An object with a spherical shape (5)
  10. 12. The angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich (9)