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Ch 7 Vocab Sec 1
6th Grade
Question | Answer |
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vegetation | plant life |
grasslands | wide open areas used for grazing and crops |
adapt | to adjust or modify to fit |
subsistence farming | farming growing to grow only enough food for families to eat, not to sell |
tributary | a small river that drains into a larger river |
biodiversity | the variety of species in an ecosystem |
current | the continuous movement of air or water in the same directions |
rain shadow | a dry region on one side of a mountain range |
transpiration | a process by which plants and trees release water vapor into the air |
greenhouse gas | a gas that traps the sun's heat over Earth |
saturate | to soak throughly |
acknowledge | to recognize |
Andes Mountains | mountain range extending 5,500 miles along the western side of South America |
Amazon River Basin | located in South America, the largest river basin on Earth |
Llanos | grasslands in northern South America |
Angel Falls | the highest waterfall in the world, located in Venezuela |
Pampas | the grassy plain of Argentina |
Atacama Desert | a desert located on the western side of the Andes Mountains |
El Nino | a reversal of usual wind and ocean currents |