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Pacific S.A.
vocabulary words
Question | Answer |
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strait | A narrow passageway of water that connects two large bodies of water. |
selvas | The thick tropical rain forests of eastern Ecuador, Eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia. |
Peru Current | A cold ocean current off the coast of western South America. |
Altiplano | A broad, high plateau in Peru and Bolivia. |
Strait of Magellan | Strait in South America connecting the South Pacific Ocean with the South Atlantic Ocean. |
El Nino | An ocean and weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean in which ocean waters become warmer. |
Atacama Desert | A desert in northern Chile. |
quinoa | A native plant of South America’s Andes region that yields nutritious seeds high in protein. |
quipus | Complicated system of knots tied on strings of various colors, used by the Inca of South America to record numerical information. |
viceroy | The governor of a South American colony. |
coup | A sudden overthrow of a government by a small group of people. |
Cuzco | City southeast of Lima, Peru that was the former capital of the Inca Empire. |
Machu Picchu | Ancient Inca city in the Andes of Peru. |
creole | American-born descendants of Europeans in Spanish South America. |
Quechua | The language of the Inca’s which is still used in the region. |
Lima | Capita of Peru. |
La Paz | Capital of Bolivia. Home of the Congress. |
Santiago | Capital of Chile. |
Sucre | Capital of Bolivia. Home the Supreme Court. |
Quito | Capital of Ecuador |