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chapter 10,11,12 voc
chap vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of land |
| guerrilla | a member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army relating to a form of of warfare carried on by such an independent armed force |
| archipelago | a group of islands |
| coral island | an island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment pilling on top of them |
| windward | facing the wind |
| leeward | facing away from the wind |
| escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level areas of different elevations |
| serato | an interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain |
| faleva | a slum community in Brazil city |
| plantation | a large estate farmed by many workers |
| gasohol | a fuel mixture of gasoline and ethanol |
| deforestation | the process of striping land of its trees |
| ecotourism | tourism that encourages environmental awareness and has little effect on the ecosystem |
| mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
| bauxite | a mineral used for making aluminum |
| llano | a grassy plain |
| cordillera | a related set of separate mountain ranges |
| campesino | in Latin american a tenant farmer or farm worker |
| Altiplano | a plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia or Peru |
| paramo | a plateau in the Andes of Ecuador |
| timberline | the boundary in high elevations above which contiguous forest vegetation cannot grow |
| selva | a forested region in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia |
| estuary | the wide mouth of a river where fresh water river currents meet salt water |
| piedmont | a region of rolling foot hills |
| pampas | a grassland region in Uruguay and Argentina |
| gaucho | a cowboy who herded in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay |