chapter 10,11,12 voc Word Scramble
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isthmus | a narrow strip of land having water on each side and 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 of warfare carried on by such an independent armed force |
archipelago | a group of islands |
coral island | an island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment pilling on top of them |
windward | facing the wind |
leeward | facing away from the wind |
escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level areas of different elevations |
serato | an interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain |
faleva | a slum community in Brazil city |
plantation | a large estate farmed by many workers |
gasohol | a fuel mixture of gasoline and ethanol |
deforestation | the process of striping land of its trees |
ecotourism | tourism that encourages environmental awareness and has little effect on the ecosystem |
mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
bauxite | a mineral used for making aluminum |
llano | a grassy plain |
cordillera | a related set of separate mountain ranges |
campesino | in Latin american a tenant farmer or farm worker |
Altiplano | a plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia or Peru |
paramo | a plateau in the Andes of Ecuador |
timberline | the boundary in high elevations above which contiguous forest vegetation cannot grow |
selva | a forested region in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia |
estuary | the wide mouth of a river where fresh water river currents meet salt water |
piedmont | a region of rolling foot hills |
pampas | a grassland region in Uruguay and Argentina |
gaucho | a cowboy who herded in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay |
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Gabe Hopkins
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