World Geography Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 6. a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives
  2. 8. a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region
  3. 10. largest mountain system in North America
  4. 11. a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks
  5. 13. a country in central South America, with a varied terrain spanning Andes Mountains, the Atacama Desert and Amazon Basin rainforest
  6. 15. the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.
  7. 18. a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts
  8. 20. a country in North America which has ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
  9. 24. a relatively narrow, 600-mile-long mountain range in the southcentral region of the U.S. state of Alaska
  10. 25. a vast country located in the southern part of South America
  11. 26. an extensive geographical region, covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil
  12. 30. a broad expanse of flatland in North America
Down
  1. 1. a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America
  2. 2. an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea
  3. 3. a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. The species are found in Angola, Botswana, the DRCongo, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia
  4. 4. a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera
  5. 5. also referred to as the Western Rivers, is a mostly riverine network of the United States which includes the Mississippi River and connecting waterways
  6. 7. a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere
  7. 9. longest continental mountain range in the world
  8. 12. largest river by discharge volume of water in the world
  9. 14. the slowest moving land mammal in the world
  10. 16. capable of gliding flight via membranes that may be extended to create wings, formed by an enlarged set of ribs
  11. 17. a continent in the Northern Hemisphere
  12. 19. a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains
  13. 21. a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest
  14. 22. a country on the northern coast of South America with diverse natural attractions. Along its Caribbean coast are tropical resort islands including Isla de Margarita and the Los Roques archipelago
  15. 23. a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin
  16. 27. a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.
  17. 28. New World monkeys belonging to the genus Ateles, part of the subfamily Atelinae, family Atelidae
  18. 29. an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley