5th period Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
isthmus | a narrow strip of lan having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of and |
guerrilla | a member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army relating to a form of wearfare carried on by such an indeendent armed force |
archipleago | a group of islands |
coral island | an island formed by the skeletal remains of thiny sea animals and the sand and seiment piling on top of them |
windward | facing the wind |
leeward | facing away from the wind |
escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level areas of differing elevations |
sertao | an interior plateau in brazil with poor soil and uncerain rain |
favela | a slumcommunity in a brazillian city |
plantation | a large estate farnes by many workers |
gasohol | a fuel mictuere of gasoline and ethanol |
deforstation | the process of strippin land of its tress |
ecotourism | tourism that encourages environmental awereness and has littile effect on the ecosystem |
mulatto | people of mixedafrican and other amcestery |
bauxite | a mineral used in making alumnun |
cordillera | or parakkekmountian reaens if the andes |
campesino | are often barely able to grow enough fiid fir thier families beacuse they foc8s there efforts on produceing cash crops of coffee |
altiplanino | a plateau region located in the anded of bolivia and peru |
paramo | in ecuador |
timber line | the boundry above wich forest cegetation cannot grow |
selva | the rain forest if the amazon river basin begin in sekva |
estuary | a boread river mouth formed where a flooded river valley meets the sea |
piedmont | or toothills region |
pampas | of argentina and uruguay are one of south americas best known features |
gaucho | cow boys who hered catle there |
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