North America Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST: acid rain : industrially produced sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere that combine with precipitation to damage forests, poison lakes, and kill fish, agribusiness : corporate farming, boreal forest : the coniferous evergreen forest, connectivity : how well its different locations became linked with one another through vastly improved transportation and communication networks, homeland : a culturally distinctive settlement in a well-defined geographic area, and its ethnicity has survived over time, stamping out the landscape with an enduring personal, assimilation : the process by which immigrants are absorbed by the larger host society, edge city : suburban node of activity that features a mix of peripheral retailing, industrial parks, residential land uses, office complexes, and entertainment facilities, ethnicity : a shared cultural identity held by a group of people with a common background or history, often as a minority group within a larger society, federal state : a country in which the major territorial subdivisions have a significant degree of political autonomy, food deserts : places where people do not have ready access to supermarkets and fresh, healthy, and affordable food, fracking : a set of drilling technologies that injects a mix of water, sand, and chemicals underground in order to release, gender gap : a term often used to describe gender differences in salary, working conditions, or political power, factors : the various influences that explain why an economic activity takes place where it does, urbanism : an urban design movement stressing higher density, mixed-use, pedestrian-scaled neighborhoods where residents might be able to walk to work, school, and local entertainment, nafta : an agreement made in 1994 among canada, the us, and mexico that establish a 15-year plan for reducing all barriers to trade among the 3 countries, outsourcing : a business practice that transfers portions of a company's production and service activities to lower-cost settings, often located overseas, spanglish : a hybrid combination of english and spanish spoken by hispanic americans, tundra : arctic biome with a short growing season in which vegetation is limited to low shrubs, grasses, and flowering herbs, unitary state : a political system in which power is centralized at the national level