South America - Caribbean, Pampas, and Andes

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Across
  1. 2. Venezuela and Colombia's has the best soil for growing this
  2. 3. lead the fight for Venezuela's independence
  3. 4. former leftist leader of Venezuela
  4. 5. rebels fighting in a civil war
  5. 11. thinks wealth should not be distributed
  6. 12. large rocky, high elevation chain along the west coast is home to the Incas
  7. 13. Argentina's cavalry who fought for independence across the Pampas
  8. 16. separate mountain chains in much of Colombia and parts of Venezuela
  9. 17. dams like the Itaipu used the flow of water to create this
  10. 19. form of democracy where people elect who makes the laws
  11. 20. rebels sold this to buy weapons
  12. 21. bringing more factories and production which increases population and improving economy
  13. 24. private armies
  14. 28. soil and water slowly dies using this on insects
  15. 31. desert looks like the surface of the planet Mars
  16. 32. for poor families use this farming tending to only feed themselves
  17. 35. this leader was tricked by the Spanish and eventually killed
  18. 38. another name for dictators
  19. 39. the name of a both a large basin and important river
  20. 40. society which was organized and productive, named after their king
Down
  1. 1. the Incas created these along mountain sides, similar to step farming
  2. 6. soldiers who "hit and run" through surprise attacks
  3. 7. thinks wealth should be distributed
  4. 8. lowland plains east of the Andes
  5. 9. one of Colombia's political parties
  6. 10. silver, zinc, tin, and lead are these types in the Altiplano
  7. 14. those who roam the grasslands in searching for food
  8. 15. huge lake in Venezuela
  9. 18. when the mother (or ruling) country uses resources from another colonized (controlled) country for its own profit
  10. 22. responsible for attacks along the coasts of the Caribbean
  11. 23. country east of Colombia
  12. 25. when temperature and rainfall effect one side of a climate zone than the other (hint - discussed in class, not in the book)
  13. 26. region is Argentina's population with ranches and commercial farming east of the Andes is this
  14. 27. much of the climate along the Pacific Ocean is this
  15. 29. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
  16. 30. an example of this would be what happened in Argentina with the gauchos and Juan Manuel de Rosas
  17. 33. the regions poorest nation in South America
  18. 34. Venezuela's economy depends on it
  19. 36. plants, animals, and climate surviving together
  20. 37. the ______________ class of those born in Spain were at the top of the social class