Across
- 1. intense rainstorm with strong winds that forms over tropical oceans
- 4. importance
- 8. a form of government in which the state is ruled by a monarch
- 10. amount of goods and services produced given the amount of resources used
- 11. movement of people from rural to urban areas
- 15. north, east, south, and west
- 17. the process of a society becoming more democratic
- 18. desire for a particular good or service
- 23. useful material found in the environment
- 24. country with a strong economy and a high quality of life
- 25. coming from outside a country
- 28. a group of people living in similar economic conditions
- 30. period during which hours of daylight are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in the other hemisphere
- 32. the study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture
- 34. information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event
- 35. basic value
- 36. country with a less-productive economy and a lower quality of life
- 38. the scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence
- 41. the level of comfort enjoyed by a person or a society
- 42. group of plants and animals that depend on each other and their environment for survival
- 43. an object made by a human being, such as a tool or a weapon
- 44. the beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people
- 45. average weather of a place over many years
- 46. the position in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian
- 48. activities having to do with one’s society and community
- 50. a system of basic rules and principles by which a government is organized
- 52. amount of a good or service that is available for use
- 54. study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth
- 56. a government in which all power is held by a single person or a small group
- 59. cause of migration that pulls, or attracts, people to new countries
- 61. molten rock found under Earth’s surface
- 63. cause of migration that pushes people to leave their home country
- 64. to migrate out of a place
- 65. person or business that makes and sells goods or services
- 66. removal of trade barriers
- 67. a group of people who have the power to make and enforce laws for a country or area
- 68. effect
- 70. the spread of cultural traits from one culture to another
- 71. the time before humans invented writing
- 73. unwanted; undesirable
- 74. crack in Earth’s crust
- 75. a system in which a central government makes all laws for the entire country
- 80. share
- 81. information about an event that does not come from a person who experienced that event
- 82. study of how people meet their wants and needs
- 85. the movement of water from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back again
- 88. way to map Earth on a flat surface
- 89. to support
- 90. useful for achieving a desired result
- 91. loss of forest cover in a region that results from trees being destroyed faster than they can grow back
- 92. variety of different kinds of living things in a region or ecosystem
- 93. a compass direction that lies between the cardinal directions, such as northeast
Down
- 2. the position north or south of the Equator measured in degrees
- 3. country’s economic growth and quality of life
- 5. person or business that buys, or consumes, goods or services
- 6. lowest possible or acceptable
- 7. not extreme
- 9. a list of events in the order in which they occurred
- 12. condition of the air and sky at a certain time and place
- 13. growth of machine-powered production and manufacturing
- 14. a legal member of a country
- 16. a legal process by which immigrants become citizens
- 19. tax on imports or exports
- 20. process of dropping eroded material in a new place
- 21. a society’s ability to produce a product most efficiently given all the products it could produce
- 22. a region made up of similar ecosystems and communities of plants and animals
- 26. a length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time; also known as an era or epoch
- 27. process that breaks down rock into tiny pieces
- 29. to receive as a result of being in a family or group
- 31. cost of what you have to give up when making a choice
- 33. area between the high and low latitudes; also know as middle latitudes
- 35. the organized spread of features in a space
- 37. period during which hours of daylight and hours of darkness are of equal length everywhere on Earth
- 39. total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year
- 40. typical ways of living out daily life
- 47. nonrenewable resource that forms over millions of years from the remains of dead plants and animals
- 49. to turn in the opposite direction
- 51. a pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society
- 53. a form of government in which citizens hold political power
- 55. relative size
- 57. area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; also know as low latitudes
- 58. a line marked off with a series of events and dates
- 60. to bring different people or groups together
- 62. loss of accuracy
- 68. two or more things affecting each other
- 69. the wind that most frequently blows across a particular region.
- 72. a system in which power is divided among central, regional, and local governments
- 76. something that keeps goods and services from entering a country
- 77. a process involving huge blocks of Earth’s crust and upper mantle that are called tectonic plates
- 78. connection of events over time
- 79. a group of humans with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet their basic needs
- 83. an official event for a specific occasion
- 84. a person's perspective on a person, thing, idea, or event
- 86. exchange of goods and services in a market.
- 87. relating to or found within a country