Chapter 4: Mexico & Central America
Across
- 4. a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have a little or none
- 5. North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
- 8. a narrow strip of land having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of land
- 14. a farm crop grown for sale and profit
- 16. farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village
- 17. a member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army
- 18. farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community
- 19. facing away from the wind
Down
- 1. a strip of land that juts out into an ocean
- 2. the watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers
- 3. an island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment piling on top of them
- 6. an area of high, flat land
- 7. facing the wind
- 9. a worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops
- 10. a factory in Mexico, along the U.S. border, that assembles goods for export
- 11. a large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or cattle ranch
- 12. a group of islands
- 13. a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company
- 15. a hole formed when limestone is dissolved, causing the land above to collapse