US and Canada Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a functional area including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked economically.
  2. 5. any kind of economic activity that produces a service rather than a product.
  3. 7. a government in which the people rule through elected representatives.
  4. 9. a large subtropical swampland in Florida of about 4,000 square miles.
  5. 17. one of two major mountain chains in the eastern United States and Canada, extending 1,600 miles from Newfoundland south to Alabama.
  6. 18. a section of a waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised or lowered, through which ships pass.
  7. 20. the movement of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration.
Down
  1. 1. an economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and businesses, and can operate them for profit with little control from the government.
  2. 3. a political unit or community touching the borders of the central city or touching other suburbs that touch the city.
  3. 4. North America’s most important deep-water ship route, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River.
  4. 6. a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together.
  5. 8. a corporation that engages in business worldwide.
  6. 10. a northern part of the interior lowlands that is a rocky, flat region covering nearly two million square miles and encircling Hudson Bay.
  7. 11. a vast grassland of central North America that is largely treeless and ascends to 4,000 feet above sea level.
  8. 12. a major mountain system of the United States and Canada, extending 3,000 miles from Alaska south to New Mexico
  9. 13. Canada’s longest river, which is part of a river system that flows across the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean.
  10. 14. a group of five freshwater lakes of central North America between the United States and Canada; the lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
  11. 15. an economic phase in which manufacturing no longer plays a dominant role.
  12. 16. winds that blow from west to east.
  13. 19. the movement of peoples within a country or region.