Geography Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. A farming method used in dry regions in which crops are grown that rely only on the natural precipitation
  2. 3. A network of safe houses in the United States that helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom
  3. 6. The cultivation of seafood
  4. 9. A concentrated region of manufacturing industries in the northeastern and midwestern United States
  5. 11. Complex forest that has developed over a long period of time and is relatively untouched by human activity
  6. 13. A seasonal warm wind that blows down the Rockies in late winter and early spring
  7. 14. A large concentration made up of several large and many smaller cities, such as the area between Boston and Washington, D.C.
  8. 15. Economy that emphasizes services and technology rather than industry and manufacturing
  9. 18. A high point or ridge that determines the direction rivers flow
  10. 19. A member of the Arctic native peoples of North America; once known as Eskimo
  11. 23. The breaking away of one part of a country to create a separate, independent country
  12. 24. Sand or sandstone naturally impregnated with petroleum
  13. 27. The source of a stream or river
  14. 28. A large, powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
  15. 30. Quebec's French-speaking inhabitants
  16. 33. Legal proceeding in which a borrower's rights to a property are relinquished due to his or her inability to make payments on the loan
Down
  1. 1. To leave one's own country to settle permanently in another
  2. 4. A smaller river or stream that feeds into a larger river
  3. 5. An American colonist who remained loyal to the British government
  4. 7. A partially self-governing country with close ties to another country
  5. 8. The removal of all trees in a stand of timber
  6. 10. A boundary in the eastern United States where the higher land of Piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain
  7. 12. Harvesting fish to the point that a species are depleted and the value of a fishery is reduced
  8. 16. Elevation above which it is to cold for trees to grow
  9. 17. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids, which kills wildlife and damages buildings, forests, and crops
  10. 20. A mild climate region in the southern and southwestern portions of the United States
  11. 21. An area in which fish or sea animals are caught; a place for catching fish, the fishing industry
  12. 22. A resource formed in the Earth by plant and animal remains
  13. 25. Haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical flumes from automobile exhausts and other pollution sources
  14. 26. A musical form developed in the United States in the early 1900s, blending African rhythms and European harmonies
  15. 29. One of the indigenous peoples of Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis
  16. 31. Process by which a body of water becomes to rich in dissolved nutrients, leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
  17. 32. A channel or pipeline for carrying a large quantity of flowing water