Chapters 11,12,13 vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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isthmus | a narrow strip of land having water on both sides and joining two larger bodies of land
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guerrilla | a member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army; relating to a form of warfare caried on by such an independent armed force.
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archipelago | a group of islands
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coral island | a island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment piling on top of them
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windward | facing the wind
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leeward | facing away form the wind
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escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level areas of differing elevation
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sertao | an interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain
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favela | a slum community in a Brazilian city
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mulatto | a person of mixed African and European decent
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bauxite | A mineral used in making aluminum
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llano | a grassy plain
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cordillera | a related set of seperate mountain ranges
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campesino | In Latin America a tenant farmer of farm worker
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altiplano | A plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia an Peru
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paramo | A plateau in the Andes of Ecuador
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timber line | The boundary in high elevations above which continious forest vegetation cannot grow
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selva | a forested region in Ecuador, Peru, and bolivia
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plantation | a large estate farmed by many workers
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gasohol | a fuel mixture of gasoline and ethanol
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deforestation | the process of striping the land of its trees
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ecotourism | tourism that encourages environmental awareness and has little effect on teh ecosystem
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