world geo Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
isthmus | a narrow strip of land having water on each side of joining two larger bodies of land |
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 a independent armed forces |
archipelago | a group of islands |
coral island | an island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment piling of top of them |
windward | facing the wind |
leeward | facing away from the wind |
escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level area of different elevation |
sertao | an interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain |
favela | a slum community in a Brazilian city |
plantation | a large estate farmed by many workers |
gasohol | a fuel mixture of gasoline and ethanol |
deforestation | the process of stripping the land of its trees |
ecotourism | tourism that encourages environmental awareness and has little effect on the ecosystem |
mulatto | a person mixed African and European ancestry |
bauxite | a mineral used in making aluminum |
llano | a grassy plain |
cordillera | a related set of separate mountain ranges |
campesino | in Latin america, a tenant farmer or farm worker |
altiplano | a plateau region located in the Andes and Bolivia and Peru |
paramo | a plateau in the Andes of ecuador |
timber line | line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes |
sleva | a forested region in Ecuador Peru and Bolivia |
estuary | the wide mouth of the river where freshwater river currents meet salt water |
piedmont | a region of rolling foothills |
pampas | a grasslands regions in Argentina and Uruguay |
gaucho | a cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay |
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