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ch.9
vocabulary
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| llanos | in South America a treeless grassy plain. |
| sodium nitrate | a white powdery compound used mainly in the manufacture of fertilizers. |
| mestizos | in Latin America a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. |
| landlocked | especially of a country almost or entirely surrounded by land; having no coastline or seaport. |
| subsistence farms | is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. |
| foothills | a low hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range. |
| empir | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. |
| navigable | of a waterway or sea able to be sailed on by ships or boats. |
| altiplano | the high tableland of central South America. |
| cash crop | a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower |
| cordillera | a system or group of parallel mountain ranges together with the intervening plateaus and other features, especially in the Andes or the Rockies. |