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Across 6. a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur (3 Words) 8. to come near or nearer 9. underground water-bearing layers of porous rock, sand or gravel 12. a hilly city on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay (2 Words) 13. the part of the Earth where life exists 18. the watery areas of the Earth, including oceans, lakes rivers and other bodies of water 20. the act or action of stretching 24. process of converting into vapor 25. a layer of gasses that surrounds the Earth 26. the removal of salt from seawater to make to usable for drinking and farming 28. a process of cracking that occurs when folded land cannot be bent any further 29. a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant (2 Words) 32. a point where something begins 35. the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km²; It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia (2 Words) 36. the part of a continent that extends underwater (2 Words) 37. molten rock that is pushed up from the Earth’s mantle 39. a continental transform fault that extends roughly 800 miles through California (3 Words) 42. Gulf on the Southwestern coast of North America (3 Words) 43. occurring over and over again 45. a slow process in which a sea plate slides under a continental plate, creating debris that can cause continents to grow outward 46. a geographic region 47. the term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of the Earth’s physical features (2 Words) 48. a sparsely populated desert region between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea (2 Words) 49. any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth 50. the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about 41,100,000 square miles (2 Words) 51. regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean (2 Words)

Down 1. the innermost layer of the Earth; made up of a super hot but solid inner core and a liquid outer core 2. surface and areas of the Earth’s crust, including continents and ocean basins 3. the structure, form, or appearance of someone or something 4. a crack or break in the Earth’s crust 5. is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans (2 Words) 7. water within the Earth that supplies wells and springs 10. moisture that falls to the Earth as Rain, Sleet, Hail, or snow 11. chemical or physical processes, such as freezing that break down rocks 14. to concentrate attention or effort 15. is the deepest part of the world's oceans (2 Words) 16. Highest Mountain in the world, in the Himalaya Range between Nepal and Tibet (2 Words) 17. the theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart (2 Words) 19. a landlocked body of salt water located between Israel and Jordan (2 Words) 21. a process by which new land is created when sea pates pull apart and magma wells up between the plates 22. Island in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean 23. Mountain Range in South Asia, bordering the Indian Subcontinent on the North 25. the southernmost continent and site of the South Pole 27. is the largest and deepest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia (2 Words) 30. the process of excess water vapor changing into liquid water when warm air cools 31. Releasing 33. Narrow strip of land that forms the link in Central America between North America and South America (3 Words) 34. a bend in layers of rock, sometimes caused by plate movement 36. the rocky shell forming the Earth’s surface 38. thick middle layer of the Earth’s structure, consisting of dense hot rock 40. the act of giving support or aid 41. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the Earth 44. wearing away of the Earth’s surface by wind, flowing water, or glaciers