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SCA 2
vocabularyy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nomads | who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock. |
| communist goverment | An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century |
| oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution |
| monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head |
| direct democracy | is a form of democracy in which people decide |
| representative democracy | is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. |
| Brazil escarpment | The Great Escarpment in Brazil is a major geological formation that runs along much of the eastern coast of Brazil south of the city of Salvador. |
| tyranny | cruel and oppressive government or rule. |
| tierra fria | in Latin America, tierra fría (Spanish for cold land) are mountain locations where high elevation results in a markedly cooler climate than that encountered in the lowlands at a comparable latitude. |
| Tierra Templada | Tierra templada (Spanish for temperate land) is a pseudoclimatological term used in Latin America |
| Tierra Caliente | Tierra caliente is a pseudo-climatological term used in Latin America to refer to those places within that realm which have a distinctly tropical climate. |
| equater | n imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| region | an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries. |
| Climates | |
| steppe | a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia |
| tundra | a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen. |
| tropical | of, typical of, or peculiar to the tropics. "tropical countries" |
| savvana | a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees. |
| mediteraninan | f or characteristic of the Mediterranean Sea, the countries bordering it, or their inhabitants. |
| culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. |
| dominant culter | The dominant culture is a culture that is the most powerful, widespread, or influential within a social or political entity in which multiple cultures are present. |
| absolute location |
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