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Brazil vocabulary
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tributary | a small river that flows into a large river |
| basin | an area of land that is drained by a river and its tributaries |
| rain forest | a dense 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 rain 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 |
| pampas | the treeless grassland of Argentina and Uruguay |
| Tropics | an area between the Tropics of cancer and the Tropics of Capricorn that has generally warm temperatures because it receives the direct rays of the sun for much of the years |
| temperate zone | a region with a climate that is neither too hot nor too cold |
| area | a geographic location |
| occur | to happen or take place |
| indigenous | people who are believed to be the first people to settle an area |
| slash-and-burn agriculture | a method of farming that involves cutting down trees and underbrush and burning the area to create a field for crops |
| comprise | to make up |
| extract | to remove or take up |
| emancipate | to make free |
| compulsory | mandatory;enforced |
| diverse | composed of many distinct and different paths |
| unique | unusual |
| hinterland | an inland area that is remote from the urban areas of a country |
| metropolitan area | an area that includes a city and its surrounding suburbs |
| central city | the densely populated center of a metropolitan area |
| favela | an overcrowded city slum in Brazil |
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