Across
- 3. reliance
- 5. something somebody is born to
- 8. to begin
- 9. a large farm that produces cash crops
- 11. self-governing
- 12. crops crops sold for a profit, often to foreign countries
Down
- 1. zone an area where trade barriers between countries are relaxed or lowered
- 2. planting young trees or seeds on lands where trees have been cut or destroyed
- 4. a person who often ruled a Latin American country as a dictator and was generally a highranking military officer or a rich man
- 6. alike
- 7. the numbers of different animals and plants living in an environment
- 10. a member of a small defensive force of irregular soldiers