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brazilvocabulary
social studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |