Unit 7 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. owning the businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process
  2. 5. an organization formed to support the interest of workers
  3. 6. identification marks made with hot metal
  4. 7. factory where crude oil is refined, or made into usable products such as gasoline
  5. 9. dark, thick liquid fossil fuel commonly called oil
  6. 10. the giving of money or gifts for charitable causes
  7. 13. a huge holding pen for cattle
  8. 16. farming techniques, such as terracing, used in a dry climate to keep moisture in the soil
  9. 17. a professional horse handler
  10. 20. a machine that converts wind energy into rotational, mechanical energy using large vanes or sails, traditionally used for grinding grain, pumping water, or sawing wood
  11. 21. towns that grow along with economic booms
  12. 23. a cattle disease
  13. 25. herding a group of cattle
  14. 27. unfenced land
  15. 28. a type of beetle that infests the cotton plant
  16. 29. a conflict occurring between ranchers
  17. 30. a type of wire fencing designed with sharp points at intervals
  18. 31. refusal by workers to do their job until a company meets their demands
  19. 32. foil, such as coal, oil, or natural gas, formed underground from plant or animal remains
Down
  1. 1. the open-range cattle industry from Texas to Canada
  2. 3. a machine that separates grain or seeds from plants
  3. 4. one that runs across the continent
  4. 8. towers that supported oil-drilling equipment
  5. 11. owning many businesses in a particular field
  6. 12. an engine in which the burning that generates power takes place inside the engine
  7. 14. large-scale growing of crops for profit
  8. 15. oil operators who worked on their own in search of new fields
  9. 18. a breed of cattle that developed as Spanish mixed with English cattle
  10. 19. a cattle thief
  11. 22. gas that can be used as a fuel
  12. 24. the meeting places of two or more railroad lines
  13. 26. alternating periods of growth and depression in an industry or economy