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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 warfare carried on by such an independednt 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 seperates two level areas if differing elevations  
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Sertão   An interior plataue in Brazil with oiir soil and uncertain rian  
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Favela   A slum community in a Brazillian 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 stripping the 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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Mulato   A person of mixed African and European ancestry  
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Bauxite   A mineral used in making aluminum  
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Llano   A grassy plain  
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Cordillera   A related set of seperate mountain ranges  
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Campesino   In Latin America, a tenant farmer or farm worker  
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Altiplano   A plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru  
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Páramo   A plateau in the Andes of Ecuador  
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Timber line   The boundry line in high elevations above which continuos forest vegatation 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 freshwater river curents meet salt water  
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Piedmont   A region of rolling foothills  
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Pampas   A grasslands region in Argentina and Uraguay  
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Gaucho   A cowboy who herded cattke in the pampas of Argentina and Uraguay  
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