Unit 3 Vocabulary

Cordillera

• a group of people who share a common culture

• a mountain system made up of roughly parallel ranges

• the movement of sediment from one location to another

• an ocean and weather pattern that affects the pacific coast of the Americas

Llanos

• Tropical grassland plain , east of the Andes

• a partially enclosed body of water where fresh water mixes with salty seawater

• an Argentine cowboy

• a huge slum in Brazil

Soil exhaustion

• a huge slum in Brazil

• a fee that country charges on imports or exports

• water that is found in Earth's streams, rivers and lakes

• the process of soil becoming infertile because it has lost nutrients needed by plants

Altiplano

• the science of making maps

• a ring-shaped coral island that surrounds a lagoon

• a road, high plateau that lies between the ridges of the Andes

• a regions' average weather conditions

Conservation

• planned management of a natural resource

• a self-governing territory

• land that is suitable for growing crops

• partially enclosed body of water where freshwater mixes with salty water

strait

• large landmass small then a continent

• a type of line

• a narrow passageway that connects two large bodies of water

estuary

• a type of ocean

• the spread of desert-like conditions

• a partially enclosed body of water where fresh water mixes with salty seawater

Mercosur

• an organization that promotes trade and economic cooperation

• a long river

• a large land mass

deforestation

• planting trees to create a forest

• stopping of the water flow

• the clearing of trees

• an Argentina cowboy

Favela

• a type of South American food

• a huge slum in Brazil

• a type of dance

• a Holiday in Brazil