Across
- 3. where the Renaissance started
- 4. a dry grassland that has warm summers and harsh cold winters
- 10. this is 0 degrees latitude
- 11. the series of Holy Wars
- 13. flat landscape east of the Rockies
- 15. repayment for war damages
- 17. elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow
- 19. introduces the concept of democracy
- 21. to adapt plants and animals from the wild for human use
- 23. an area of lush vegetation in a desert created by an underground spring
- 24. this layer of gases that surrounds the Earth
- 29. a type of map that shows boundaries of countries or states
- 30. name of the mountain range along the west coast of South America
- 31. in Islam a house of worship
- 33. got control of Germany after WWI and was the main bad guy of WWll
- 34. the part of Earth where life exists
- 36. a community lying on the fringes of a metropolitan area
- 37. natural mineral containing chemical compounds often used in fertilizers
- 38. the movement of weathered rock by wind, glaciers, and moving water
Down
- 1. the Egyptians made these
- 2. this type of government divides power between the national and state level
- 5. on a map to indicate distance
- 6. virtually all maps have some sort of this
- 7. location identification of one place by referring to another place
- 8. person believed to be a messenger from God
- 9. the main river system in the USA
- 12. borrower gives up rights to a property due to inability to repay the loan
- 14. the characteristic pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time
- 16. a group or chain of islands
- 18. belief in one God
- 20. rotation of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
- 22. the Soviets promoted this set of beliefs
- 25. shows for detail than a globe
- 26. an extremely dry area that supports few plants or animals
- 27. Mexico is the world's leading producer of this mineral
- 28. what we call the United States
- 32. the event where the Germans killed over 6 million Jews in WWII
- 33. where civilizations started
- 35. an extremely dry area that supports few plants or animals
- 39. a member of wandering pastoral people