Geography Chapter 3: Mexico
Across
- 1. taking land from the wealthy and giving it to those who have worked on it
- 4. law or act that limits imports or puts taxes on them
- 9. poor farmer/farmworker
- 10. in water, not on land
- 12. against the law
- 14. area of land that is neither too hot or cold
- 16. shaking of Earth's surface caused by plate movement
- 21. climate that is hot all year, but has a wet and a dry season
- 22. a strip of land surrounded by water on three sides
- 24. large movement of people from one place to another
- 25. the height of something above sea level
- 26. mixture of native and European ancestry
- 31. native peasants who once rebelled against the Mexican government
- 34. lowlands between mountains
- 35. money a country owes other governments
- 36. person who is related to a certain group of people
Down
- 2. a type of tree that drops its leaves
- 3. the use of science and machines to improve things
- 5. trading without any barriers between countries
- 6. a nation that rules a large area of land
- 7. an area of level highland
- 8. thick forest in the Tropics where much rain falls
- 11. slow movement of Earth's underground plates
- 13. foreign owned assembly plant
- 15. high altitude with a cold average temperature
- 17. low altitude with a hot average temperature
- 18. to channel or bring in water to fields
- 19. a mountain formed when liquid hot rock comes to Earth's surface
- 20. hot, liquid rock
- 23. narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas
- 27. what allows Canada, the US, and Mexico to trade freely
- 28. a poor farmer
- 29. separate from other areas or people
- 30. overthrowing of a government
- 32. thick growth of trees and vines
- 33. overcrowded, poor area in a town or city