Geography Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A change of position that does not entail a change of location (8)
  2. 8. The angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator (8)
  3. 9. The natural world around us (11)
  4. 11. The European mainland (9)
  5. 12. The extended spatial location of something (6)
  6. 13. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. Huge body of salt water (5)
  2. 2. A point or extent in space (8)
  3. 3. Metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's (3)
  4. 5. A politically organized body of people under a single government (7)
  5. 6. A body of water surrounded by land (4)
  6. 7. Long stream of water flowing to the sea (5)
  7. 8. The angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich (9)
  8. 9. An imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north (7)
  9. 10. A person ___ by blood or marriage (8)
  10. 14. Turbulent water with swells of considerable size (3)