Unit 8

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Across
  1. 2. A layer of shorter plants that grow in the shade of a forest canopy.
  2. 5. Practice of passing down stories from generation to generation by word of mouth
  3. 6. A refugee within his or her own country
  4. 10. Fuel created from living matter, such as trees
  5. 11. a group of related families
  6. 12. the buying and selling of goods over the internet
  7. 13. belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
  8. 16. Traditional oral historians, storytellers, singers, and musicians of West Africa
  9. 19. illegal hunting
  10. 21. Plain - a plain formed by the deposit of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers
  11. 22. a hot, dry wind that blows from the northeast or east in the western Sahara
  12. 26. A steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower land surface
  13. 27. a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
  14. 28. A common language used among people with different native languages
  15. 30. A family unit made up of a husband, wife, and children
  16. 32. Diamonds that are mined in war-torn areas and are used to finance one or more parties involved
  17. 33. Place where an organism lives
Down
  1. 1. an area in which the properties of the land undergo a radical change
  2. 3. A natural or artificial lake used as a source of water
  3. 4. A family that is headed by a male family member
  4. 7. a large commercial farm
  5. 8. to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control
  6. 9. the process by which fertile land becomes desert.
  7. 14. situation in which land is repeatedly farmed so that the soil nutrients are depleted
  8. 15. Top layer of a rain forest, where the tops of tall trees form a continuous layer of leaves
  9. 17. Referring to a mountainous area
  10. 18. native to a certain area
  11. 20. A triangular section of land formed by sand and silt carried downriver; a triangular-shaped area of silt and sediment deposit found at the mouth of a river
  12. 23. a large waterfall
  13. 24. an area in which fish or sea animals are caught
  14. 25. Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
  15. 29. A person who's beliefs in which elements of nature, such as animals and mountains, are thought to have spirits
  16. 31. A valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates