IGHS Winkels Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
mulattoes | people of mixed African and other ancestry |
bauxite | a mineral used in making aluminum |
llanos | which means "plains" in Spanish |
cordilleras | parallel mountain ranges of the Andes |
campesinos | tenant farmers |
altiplano | "high plain" in Peru and Bolivia |
paramos | "high plain" in Ecuador |
timber line | the boundary above which continuous forest vegetation cannot grow |
selva | the area between the cold, dry mountains and the steamy lowlands/these forested regions are in Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia |
estuary | a broad river mouth formed where a flooded river valley meets the sea |
piedmont | foothills |
pampas | temperate grasslands that stretch for hundreds of miles |
gauchos | cowboys |
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