North America Word Scramble
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federal republic | form of government in which the national and state governments share powers |
commonwealth | partly self-governing territory |
embargo | order that restricts or prohibits trade with another country |
migrant worker | person who travels from place to place when extra help is needed to plant or harvest crops |
adobe | sun-dried clay bricks |
colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
subsistence farms | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family |
rural | relating to the countryside |
urban | relating to the city |
amend | to change the basic laws of a government |
fossil fuel | fuel formed in the earth, such as coal, oil, or natural gas |
free enterprise system | economic system that operates on free competition, in which people start and own businesses with limited government intervention |
megalopolis | huge urban settlement made up of several large cities |
prime minister | official who heads the government in a parliamentary democracy |
parliamentary democracy | system of democratic government where the executive power is held by a cabinet composed of members of the legislature; headed by a prime minister |
dominion | self-governing nation that accepts the British monarch as head of state |
autonomy | right of self-government |
NAFTA | free trade agreement among United States, Mexico, and Canada |
tundra | vast, rolling, treeless plain in high latitude climates in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in summer |
bilingual | having or expressed in two languages; able to use two languages with fluency |
indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
province | regional political division similar to a state |
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kelly.wadsworth
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