chapters 11,12,13 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
isthmus | narrow strip of land having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of land |
guerrilla | member of an armed force tat is not part of a regular army, relating to a form of warfare carried on by such an independent armed force |
archipelago | a group of islands |
coral island | an island thaat is formed by skeletal remians of tiny sae animals and sand and sediment piling on the top of them |
windward | facing the wind |
leeward | facing away form the wind |
llano | a grass plain |
bauxie | a mineral used in making aluminum |
mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
cordillera | related set of separate mountains ranges |
campesino | in Latin America a tenant farmer or farm worker |
altiplano | plateau located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru |
paramo | plateau in the Andes of Ecuador |
timber line | boundary in high elevation above which continuous forest vegetation cannot be coming |
selva | forested region in Ecuador, Peru, & bolivia |
estuary | wide mouth of a river where freshwater rivers currents meet salt water |
pledment | region of rolling foothills |
pampas | grassland region in Argentina and Uruguay |
gaucho | cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay |
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