Landforms Crossword

This crossword will help you learn the definitions of some key terms from chapter 3 in your text book.

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Across
1.	Underground porous and permeable rock holding ground water.
2.	Steep-sided, flat-bottomed gully.
8.	A valley area bordering a stream that is subject to flooding.
10.	Result of precesses that loosen, dissolve, and remove earth.
14.	The down slope movement of earth material due to gravity.
18.	Vibrations within the Earth set off by earthquakes.
19.	Rock layers that buckle under pressure.
20.	Small conical hills of sediment.
21.	Small lakes in the hollowed-out depressions.
22.	Fan-shaped accumulation of alluvium.
27.	Sharp ridges that seperate adjecent glacially carved valleys.
28.	An embankment on the sides of a meandering river.
30.	An arch of stratified rock; bend opposite from crest.
31.	Seismic seawaves genarated by an earthquake.
32.	Permanently frozen subsoil.
33.	Steep sided cinder cone.
34.	Fractures tha tare cracks.
35.	The chemical change that occurs in chemical weathering.
36.	Bowing of the earth's surface.
37.	Steep slope formed by vertical movement of Earth.
38.	A trough of stratified rock; downarched
39.	Formation of a stalactite and stalagmite that join to one structure.
40.	Deep surface depression.

Down
3.	Separation away from the fault.
4.	When oxygen combines with mineral components.
5.	Mixture of loose material found at the earth's surface.
6.	Result of hearvy rain and poor farming techniques.
7.	The action of the acid in chemical weathering.
9.	A cresent shaped lake in a meander of a river.
11.	Deposits of calcium carbonate hanging from cave roofs.
12.	Gently sloping area in front of glacier.
13.	A dry, braided channel in the desert.
15.	deposit of calcium carbonate that builds upwards from cave floors.
16.	Breaks in rock produced by plates moving.
17.	Channel made by small stream.
23.	Gently sloping; eruption without an explosion.
24.	Upper limit of the saturated zone.
25.	Mechanical processes that fragment and decompse rock materials.
26.	A trianglular-shaped deposit of mud.
29.	Lakes formed by glacial melt.

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