Across
- 2. traditional oral historians, storytellers, singers, and musicians of West Africa
- 3. a farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family
- 5. a place for catching fish; the fishing industry
- 7. situation in which land is repeatedly farmed so that the soil nutrients are depleted
- 8. a crack in Earth’s surface created by the shifting of tectonic plates
- 11. the set of systems that affect how well a place or organization operates, such as telephone or transportation systems, within a country
- 17. water that lies underground and feeds wells and springs
- 21. the population that an area will support without undergoing deterioration
- 22. a large commercial farm growing crops for export
- 23. a climate marked by warm, dry summers and cool, rainy winters
- 25. native to a place
Down
- 1. buying and selling on the internet
- 4. a family that is headed by a male family member
- 6. a system in which farmers plant a field for several years until its resources are depleted, then abandon it and clear a new field
- 9. to tame
- 10. displaced person a refugee within his or her own country
- 12. a common language used among people with different native languages
- 13. the migration of people from rural areas to urban areas
- 14. farming that provides the basic needs of a family with little surplus
- 15. illegal hunting
- 16. a natural or artificial lake used as a source of water
- 18. a steep cliff or slope between a high and lower land surface
- 19. diamonds that are mined in war-torn areas and are used to finance wars
- 20. pertaining to traditional religious beliefs in which nature and objects, such as animals and mountains are thought to have spirits
- 24. referring to a mountainous area