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