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chapter 11 12 13

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isthmus   a narrow strip of lan having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of and  
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guerrilla   a member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army relating to a form of wearfare carried on by such an indeendent armed force  
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archipleago   a group of islands  
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coral island   an island formed by the skeletal remains of thiny sea animals and the sand and seiment piling 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 differing elevations  
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sertao   an interior plateau in brazil with poor soil and uncerain rain  
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favela   a slumcommunity in a brazillian city  
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plantation   a large estate farnes by many workers  
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gasohol   a fuel mictuere of gasoline and ethanol  
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deforstation   the process of strippin land of its tress  
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ecotourism   tourism that encourages environmental awereness and has littile effect on the ecosystem  
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mulatto   people of mixedafrican and other amcestery  
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bauxite   a mineral used in making alumnun  
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cordillera   or parakkekmountian reaens if the andes  
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campesino   are often barely able to grow enough fiid fir thier families beacuse they foc8s there efforts on produceing cash crops of coffee  
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altiplanino   a plateau region located in the anded of bolivia and peru  
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paramo   in ecuador  
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timber line   the boundry above wich forest cegetation cannot grow  
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selva   the rain forest if the amazon river basin begin in sekva  
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estuary   a boread river mouth formed where a flooded river valley meets the sea  
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piedmont   or toothills region  
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pampas   of argentina and uruguay are one of south americas best known features  
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gaucho   cow boys who hered catle there  
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