Africa

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element (7)
  2. 5. The wide part of a river where it nears the sea (7)
  3. 6. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge (10)
  4. 9. A crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (5)
  5. 11. The process of ___ (5)

Down

  1. 1. A republic in central Africa (6)
  2. 2. A dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter (9)
  3. 3. An eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye (8)
  4. 7. A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions (7)
  5. 8. A landlocked republic in West Africa (5)
  6. 10. A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body (5)