6th Grade Social Studies

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Across
  1. 1. The language spoken by most of Latin America
  2. 4. The capital of Nicaragua
  3. 7. A place where two tectonic plates grind against each other
  4. 8. The capital of Brazil
  5. 9. Mexico is the leading producer of this mineral
  6. 10. Considered Mexico’s “founding culture” because they built one of the earliest civilizations in Latin America
  7. 12. What the Compass Rose shows
  8. 13. The capital of Cuba
  9. 15. The part of the map that explains the symbols, colors, and lines
  10. 16. Native or the first people to live in an area
  11. 18. Earth’s physical subsystem that consists of Earth’s land
  12. 19. The capital of Mexico
  13. 21. the study of Earth’s physical features and the living things -- humans, animals, and plants -- that inhabit it
  14. 22. ideas held by a person or group that cause them to take a side on an issue
  15. 23. Canada’s largest metropolitan area
  16. 26. Canada's second-largest city
  17. 30. Spanish conquerors led by Hernan Cortes
  18. 31. The capital of Colombia
  19. 32. Large-scale wall painting used to teach illiterate Mexicans about their history
  20. 33. The layer of gases that surrounds Earth
  21. 34. The capital of Venezuela
  22. 35. A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas
  23. 38. When a country sends people to settle and control a new area politically
  24. 40. The line of latitude equally distant from North Pole and South Pole
  25. 41. Canadian administrative units similar to U.S. states
  26. 42. The capital of Honduras
  27. 43. Their capital city was called Tenochtitlan
  28. 44. Dia de los Muertos is celebrated on the first day of this month
  29. 46. This U.S. state declared their independence from Mexico in 1836
Down
  1. 2. Along with Bolivia, they are the only landlocked countries in South America
  2. 3. The capital of Ecuador
  3. 5. Earth’s physical subsystem that consists of living things on Earth
  4. 6. The island shared by Haiti and Dominican Republic
  5. 7. Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexico's defeat of this European country
  6. 11. Spanish priests converted many native Mexicans to this religion
  7. 14. People who study geography
  8. 17. Factories along the Mexico-U.S. border in which workers assemble parts made in other countries
  9. 20. There are seven of these found on the Earth
  10. 22. The country that colonized Brazil
  11. 24. The capital of Canada
  12. 25. A process that separates out most salt and minerals and makes salt water safe to drink
  13. 27. descriptions of an event by someone who witnessed or lived through that event
  14. 28. The first Europeans to reach what is now Canada
  15. 29. Its capital is Montevideo
  16. 34. To forcibly or violently take control of an area
  17. 36. Earth’s physical subsystem that consists of Earth’s water
  18. 37. Ancient civilization in modern-day Mexico that used astronomy to make accurate calendars
  19. 39. Lines that run from north to south, but they measure distance on Earth in an east-to-west direction
  20. 41. A large expanse of land that can be flat or have a gentle roll
  21. 45. Unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events