Geography

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth (6)
  2. 5. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind (5)
  3. 6. Base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands (plural) (6)
  4. 8. The branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust (9)
  5. 10. United States baseball player (6)
  6. 12. Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space (9)
  7. 13. Half of the terrestrial globe (10)
  8. 14. A point located with respect to surface features of some region (5)
  9. 15. A geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock (4)
  10. 16. To sail to the windward of (10)

Down

  1. 1. A change of position that does not entail a change of location (8)
  2. 3. A slowly moving mass of ice (7)
  3. 4. A crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (5)
  4. 7. Layer of air around the Earth (10)
  5. 9. Molten rock in the earth's crust (5)
  6. 11. Condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind (7)