by the merging of the -?- and Uruguay rivers.
33. The latitude of 0 degrees from which other
parallels are measured in degrees; is exactly halfway
between the North and South Poles.
35. A body of salt water or ocean partly surrounded
by land, generally considered smaller than an ocean.
37. The beautiful faint glow seen around the sun
during a total eclipse.
39. The capital of Algeria is -?-.
41. The water area off the coast of Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Congo is known as the
Bight of -?-.
42. The large bay north of Ontario, Canada, is -?- Bay.
47. The capital of the Philippines is Manila on -?-
Island.
48. A mass of frozen gasses including small rocky bits
and dust traveling around the sun, with a gaseous tail
made visible by reflected sunlight when it is closest to
the sun.
51. The earth's -?- is the region starting 20 to 30 miles
beneath the surface and extending down some 1800
miles.
53. Winds blowing from west to east are called -?-.
54. Maps using the -?- projection have little distortion
near the Equator.
55. This result is produced by the violent expansion of
the air caused by the tremendous heat of lightning.
2. Land which is not deep or high; having a smooth,
even, level surface.
6. Until July, 1997, -?- was a British colony in East Asia.
(two words)
9. Hurricanes and -?- are two names for the same
weather disturbance.
10. The -?- circumference of the earth is 24,901.46 miles.
12. The constitutional capital of Bolivia is -?- some 260
miles southeast of La Paz, the administrative capital.
15. A large peninsula on the east coast of Russia is
the -?- Peninsula.
19. A raised area of land lower than a mountain.
20. Floating masses of vegetation that often obstruct
navigation on the White Nile River.
24. The largest country on the -?- Peninsula is Saudi
Arabia.
26. A fine-grained metamorphic (any of those rocks
changed from their original form due to large changes
in temperature and pressure) form of clay or shale.
28. A particle of rock or iron from outer space that has
not been completely burned up by its passage through
the earth's atmosphere and hence has reached the
ground.
32. Rio de la Plata: The estuary on the southeastern
coast of South America, extending