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Ch. 11,12,13 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 warfare carried on by such an 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 on top of them |
windward | Facing the wind |
leeward | facing away from the wind |
escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level areas of differing elevations |
setao | a region in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain. |
favela | a slum community in a Bazillian city |
plantation | a large estate formed by many workers |
gasohol | a fuel mixed with 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 other 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 of bulivia and peru |
paramo | a plateau in the andes of ecuador |
timber line | The boundary in high elevations above which continuous forest vegetation can grow |
selva | a forested region in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia |
estuary | The wide mouth of a river where freshwater river currents meet salt water |
piedmont | a region of rolling foothills |
pampas | a grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay |
gaucho | a cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay |