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SCA 2 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nomads | a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock. |
| Communist government | is the radical social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society |
| 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’s 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 | mountain locations where high elevation results in a markedly cooler climate than that encountered in the lowlands at a comparable latitude. |
| Tierra Templada | a pseudoclimatological term used in Latin America to refer to places which are either located in the tropics at a moderately high elevation or are marginally outside the astronomical tropics |
| Tierra Caliente | a pseudo-climatological term used in Latin America to refer to those places within that realm which have a distinctly tropical climate. |
| Equator | an 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 | |
| Tundra | |
| Tropical | |
| Savanna | |
| Mediterranean | |
| Culture | |
| Dominant Culture | |
| New Granda formation 1830 | |
| Absolute location | |
| Mixed Economy | |
| Traditional Economy: | |
| Market Economy | |
| Command Economy | |
| Great Lakes | |
| Amazon River source |
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