North America Vocab
Across
- 1. send (goods or services) to another country for sale.
- 4. population living below a specific income set by the country
- 5. the spreading out of culture, cultural traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point
- 6. smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city
- 7. elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow
- 11. removal of all trees in a stand of timber
- 14. breaking away of one part of a country to create a separate, independent country
- 16. semi-independent countries under the British Crown that constituted the British Empire
- 17. to bring a product into a country to be sold
Down
- 2. economy that emphasizes services and technology rather than industry and manufacturing
- 3. large population concentration made up of several large and many smaller cities
- 8. change residence from a country to begin living permanently in another country
- 9. crops are grown that rely only on the natural precipitation
- 10. large, powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
- 12. leave one's own country to settle permanently in another
- 13. resource formed in the Earth by plant and animal remains
- 15. the practice and business of recreational travel based on concern for the environment