Geo vocab original Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| area | a geographic location |
| occur | to happen or take place |
| tributary | a small river that flows into a larger river |
| basin | an area of land that is drained by a river and its tributary |
| rain forest | a dense stand of trees and other vegetation that receives a great deal of precipitation each year |
| canopy | the umbrella like covering formed by the tops of trees i rain forests |
| plateau | a flat area that rises above the surrounding lands |
| escarpment | a steep cliff at the edge of a platue |
| pampas | the treeless grasslands of Argentina and Uruguay . |
| temperature zone | a region with a climate that is neither too hot nor to cold |
| tropics | an area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn that has generally warm temperatures because it receives the direct rays of the sun for much of the year |
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