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South America
South America vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Terrace | strips of leveled land built into the hillside that are planted with crops |
Nomads | people who move from place to place, usually in search of food and resources |
Domesticate | tame plants and animals for human use |
Civilization | the level of development at which people live together peacefully in communities |
Culture | a pattern of behavior shared by a group of people made up of food, language, clothing, tools, music, arts, customs, beliefs, and religion |
Migrate | the movement of people from one area to another |
Ecosystems | made up of all the living and nonliving things in an area; includes all plants, animals and other living things that make up the communities of life in an area |
Agriculture | farming; includes both growing and harvesting crops and raising animals/livestock |
Irrigation | the movement of water from one place to another to grow crops |
Artifacts | a human-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users |
Empire | a group of territories that are under the control of the same leader or government |
Territories | a geographical area under the rule of a government |
Pampas | wide, treeless plains of South America |
Patagonia | a sparsely populated region at the southern end of South America |
States | a politically organized territory |