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brazilvocabulary
social studies
Term | Definition |
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area | a geographic location. |
occur | to settle in a place. |
tributary | a small river that flows into a larger river. |
basin | an area of land that is drained by a river and its tributes. |
rain forest | a dense stand of trees and other vegetation that receives a great deal of precipitation each year. |
canopy | the umbrella-like covering formed by the tops of trees in a forest. |
plateau | a flat area that rises above the surrounding land. |
escarpment | a steep cliff at the edge of a plateau with a lowland area below. |
pampus | the treeless grassland of Argentina and Uruguay. |
Tropics | an area between the Tropic of cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn that has generally warm temperatures because it receives the direct rats of the sun for much of the year. |
temperate zone | a region with a climate that is neither too hot nor too cold. |