Latin America

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Land of the free; the USA (7)
  2. 5. Water falling from clouds (4)
  3. 6. The event of something being raised upward (9)
  4. 12. A major South American river (6)
  5. 13. Noticeable heterogeneity (9)
  6. 15. A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be (7)

Down

  1. 1. Large area covered with trees (6)
  2. 2. A relatively flat highland (7)
  3. 3. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast (5)
  4. 4. A republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea (8)
  5. 7. A republic in southern South America (9)
  6. 8. Largest country in South America (6)
  7. 9. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of ___ (4)
  8. 10. The region of the United States lying to the ___ of the Mason-Dixon line (5)
  9. 11. A branch that flows into the main stream (9)
  10. 14. Dry land with very little rain (6)