GEO412 KEY TERMS CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
- 2. sector of the economy that covers a wide range of activities from commerce to administration, transport, financial and real estate activities, business and personal services, education, health and social work
- 4. ______-___-____________ manufacturing is a production model in which items are created to meet demand, not created in surplus or in advance of need
- 6. the system of dividing society into hereditary classes
- 10. __________ Effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat
- 11. a group of formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants who gained their freedom by fleeing enslavement and running to the safety and cover of the remote mountains or the dense overgrown tropical terrains near the plantations
- 16. sector of the economy that manufactures goods
- 17. a city of 10 million or more people
- 19. _________ factors are factors that encourage emigration
- 20. a factory in Mexico run by a foreign company and exporting its products to the country of that company, typically for to operate under a favorable duty or tariff.
- 21. A ______ city is a city that is the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the area.
- 23. _____________ fans are a triangle-shaped deposit of gravel, sand, and smaller materials called alluvium
- 25. an area of land cleared for temporary cultivation by slashing and burning vegetation
- 28. the human dominated epoch
- 29. the Indian movie industry, based in Mumbai
- 30. ____________ drain is the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country
- 31. someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence
Down
- 1. persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence
- 3. transfers of money from a well-meaning individual or family member to another individual or household in another country
- 5. a synonym for slum but used primarily in Brazil
- 7. the process by which salts precipitate in soil
- 8. _________ factors are factors that encourage immigration
- 9. the action of clearing a wide area of trees
- 12. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
- 13. the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale
- 14. Process by which elements of different cultures are blended together to create a new culture; used especially to refer to mixtures of local languages with European languages
- 15. a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, and so forth
- 18. act of making false or misleading statements about the environmental benefits of a product or practice
- 21. sector of the economy that includes all those activities the end purpose of which consists in exploiting natural resources: agriculture, fishing, forestry, mining, deposits
- 22. refers to any member of a wide range of social groups that were historically marginalized in the traditional Hindu caste society
- 24. seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region
- 26. the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer
- 27. the Nigerian movie industry, based in Lagos