Name: ______Unit 4 Crossword Puzzle

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N 37 I N D O C H I N A P E N I N S U L A Across 27. a peninsula in Antarctica, S of South America 12. based on the deposits of the Yellow River and is the 3. a river in E Asia, flowing from the Tibetan plateau 29. a nearly flat plain of alluvial deposit between diverging largest alluvial plain of eastern Asia. The plain is bordered on through central China to the East China Sea branches of the mouth of a river, often, though not the north by the Yanshan Mountains and on the west by the 5. industry of catching, processing, or selling fish or necessarily, triangular Taihang Mountains edge of the Shanxi shellfish. 30. a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir 13. a river flowing from W China into the Gulf of Bohai 6. an ice sheet projecting into coastal waters so that the and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. 15. a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a end floats 33. Also called Australian Aborigine. a member of the people subdivision of india 8. areas with annual precipitation less than 250 millimeters who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia. 16. a mountain range extending about 1500 miles along the and a mean temperature during the warmest month of less 34. a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, than 10°C. Polar deserts on Earth cover nearly 5 million square carried out to sea. 18. a region of the central pacific ocean that has the 3 large kilometers and are mostly hard bedrock or gravel plains 35. a Pacific island to the north of Australia the 2nd largest island groups of the pacific islands 14. one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia 19. a coral reef parallel to the coast of Queensland, in NE comprising the small Pacific islands N of the equator and E of and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea Australia. 1250 miles (2010 km) long. the Philippines 36. a large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago. 20. one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, 17. a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced 37. s a region in Southeast Asia comprising the island groups in the S Pacific NE of Australia small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow Down 24. a reef composed mainly of coral and other organic matter lagoon 1. a member of the native Polynesian population of New of which parts have solidified into limestone 21. a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and Zealand 26. a river whose source is in SW China, flowing SE along calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and most of the boundary between Thailand and Laos to the South Asia 2. a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar China Sea. 22. the layer of the upper atmosphere where most 4. a desert in East Asia, mostly in Mongolia 28. an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or atmospheric ozone is concentrated, from about 8 to 30 miles undersea volcanic eruption. 7. any separate tract of land belonging to a state (12 to 48 km) above the earth, with the maximum ozone 31. an island in the Malay Archipelago, politically divided concentration occurring at an altitude of about 12 miles (19 9. the remote bush country of Australia among Indonesia, Malaysia, and the British-protected sultanate km 10. a vast plateau in S central Asia bounded by the Tarim and of Brunei. 23. a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Qaidam basin deserts to the N and the Himalayan, Karakoram, 32. the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, Bay of Bengal and Pamir mountain ranges to the S and W blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast 25. a dormant volcano in central Japan, on Honshu island: 11. a mountain in S Asia, on the boundary between Nepal and in winter highest mountain in Japan Tibet, in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world