"The Columbian Exchange"

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Across
  1. 2. hemisphere where the explorers started
  2. 5. another name for diseases that spread to the New World.
  3. 9. the crop that started in Mesopotamia and spread north.
  4. 10. farming that is meant to create abundance, but not much surplus.
  5. 13. the event where living things were traded and intermingled about 1492.
  6. 14. forests are [like] these vital organs on the earth.
  7. 15. the quality of living in a certain area or climate.
  8. 16. hemisphere where the explorers ended.
Down
  1. 1. a grain brought to the New World from The Old World.
  2. 3. A rainforest has a many-layered __________.
  3. 4. The Amazon has diminished to a fifth because of this.
  4. 6. the explorer who brought this ecological exchange.
  5. 7. the state of variety of plants and animals.
  6. 8. the type of development that plans to not run out of resources.
  7. 11. a disease deadly in the New World.
  8. 12. the second longest river in the world.