World Geography Chapter 5

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Across
  1. 3. highest point on the continent at 20,320 feet
  2. 7. winds of more than 35 mph, heavy or blowing snow, and low visibility
  3. 9. violent spring and summer thunderstorms spawn tornadoes
  4. 11. desert with the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States at 134 degrees
  5. 14. giant core of rock centered on the Hudson and James Bays
  6. 16. one of North America's longest rivers, flows 2,350 miles from its source
  7. 17. naturally treeless expanses of grasses, spread across the continent's midsection
Down
  1. 1. one and one-fourth times the size of the continental United States
  2. 2. ocean storms hundreds of miles wide with winds of 74 mph or more
  3. 4. the elevation above which trees cannot grow
  4. 5. North America's oldest mountains and the continent's second-longest mountain range
  5. 6. Superior, Huron, Erie, Ontario and Michigan
  6. 8. places for catching fish and other sea animals
  7. 10. warm, dry wind may blow down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
  8. 12. Falls popular tourist attraction on the Niagara River, major source of hydroelectric power for the U.S. and Canada
  9. 13. today this covers less than 50 percent of Canada and about 1/3 of the U.S.
  10. 15. high point or ridge that determines the direction that rivers flow