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world georg
ch.11,12,&13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| isthmus | a marrow 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 warfare carried on by such an independent armed force |
| archipelago | a group of islands |
| coral island | island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment piling on top of them |
| windward | facing the wind |
| leeward | facing away from the wind |
| escarpment | a steep cliff that seperates two level areas of differing elevations |
| sertao | an interior platue 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 of mixed african and european ancestry |
| bauxite | a mineral used in making aluminum |
| llano | a grassy plain |
| cordillera | a related set of seperate mountain ranges |
| campesino | in latin america a tenant farmer farm worker |
| altiplano | a plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru |
| paramo | a plateau in the andes of ecuador |
| timber line | the boundary in high elevations above which continuous 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 foothillls |
| pampas | a grasslands region in argentina and uruguay |
| gaucho | a cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of argentina and Uruguay |