Across
- 1. fees in the form of money, crops, or other goods.
- 2. system of several mountain ranges that run parallel to one another.
- 5. agriculture-the business of producing crops to sell
- 6. large masses of ice and packed snow.
- 11. when rainfall is below normal for a long period of time.
- 12. based on preserving resources rather than using them up.
- 13. someone sent to spread a religion to a new territory or group.
- 18. a system of writing that consisted mostly of pictures and symbols.
- 19. America region that includes mild climates as well as extremes of cold and heat.
- 20. outbreak of a disease that spreads widely.
- 24. Forced to leave a country.
- 26. they are all connected in one block
- 27. build settlements and develop trade in lands that they controlled.
Down
- 1. mild
- 3. society with a highly developed culture, politics, and technology.
- 4. Narrow strips of land that extend out into a body of water.
- 7. sending to other countries for aid or profit
- 8. adjusted to the environment where it lives
- 9. large farms that grow crops for profit.
- 10. layers of rock beneath the earth that contain water.
- 14. farming growing just enough food to feed your family.
- 15. an extensive group of people governed by one ruler.
- 16. shadow effect when warm, moist air rises up the mountains it cools and releases moisture on the mountains’ western slopes. The air that reaches the land east of the mountains is dry.
- 17. strengthen
- 21. made less extreme
- 22. government of elected officials.
- 23. Spanish soldier-explorer
- 25. a barrier that controls the flow of water.
- 26. exposed underground pools. Mayan for “sacred wells”.