Across
- 1. / Mark Twain (Samuel Clements) worked a a steam boat ________ in his 20's./
- 3. / the _________ flood took place in 1993./
- 4. / __________ explosions in steamboats were a huge problem./
- 6. / __________ Clements started writing in 1863./
- 11. / Stephen Vincent Benet wrote a poem called "Mississippi __________"./
- 12. / the first steam _________ stopped all steamboats./
- 13. / 995 _______ sunk on the Mississippi river./
- 15. / the _________ destroyed 50,000 homes./
- 17. / the first cross country ___________ stopped the need for steamboats./
- 19. / _________ cost 15-20 million dollars in the Super flood./
- 20. / the source for the Mississippi is a ___________./
Down
- 2. / The town that was above flood level for 144 days was St. ________./
- 5. / _________ keep water from overflowing./
- 7. / the Mississippi river ends in the gulf of ___________./
- 8. / one of the states the Mississippi runs through is __________./
- 9. / _________ is the state Lake Itasca is in./
- 10. / The city of new Orleans has ________ that help in hurricanes./
- 14. / _________ Stands for Blue Boys King./
- 16. / in the ________ of 1973 the flood cost 1.2 million dollars./
- 18. / The writer who wrote about the Mississippi rivers first name is ____________ Twain./