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isthmus | a narrow strip of land having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of land
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guerrilla | a member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army relating to a form of of warfare carried on by such an independent armed force
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archipelago | a group of islands
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coral island | an island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment pilling on top of them
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windward | facing the wind
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leeward | facing away from the wind
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escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level areas of different elevations
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serato | an interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain
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faleva | a slum community in Brazil city
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plantation | a large estate farmed by many workers
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gasohol | a fuel mixture of gasoline and ethanol
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deforestation | the process of striping land of its trees
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ecotourism | tourism that encourages environmental awareness and has little effect on the ecosystem
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mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry
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bauxite | a mineral used for making aluminum
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llano | a grassy plain
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cordillera | a related set of separate mountain ranges
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campesino | in Latin american a tenant farmer or farm worker
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Altiplano | a plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia or Peru
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paramo | a plateau in the Andes of Ecuador
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timberline | the boundary in high elevations above which contiguous forest vegetation cannot grow
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selva | a forested region in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
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estuary | the wide mouth of a river where fresh water river currents meet salt water
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piedmont | a region of rolling foot hills
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pampas | a grassland region in Uruguay and Argentina
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gaucho | a cowboy who herded in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay
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