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Vocabulary
Water
The Land
Climate and Vegetation
Highlands
100
Where freshwater meets the ocean.
What is an estuary?
100
East of South America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
Plains in Colombia and Venezuela
What are the Llanos?
100
"Hot Land"
What is the Tierra Caliente?
100
Run 4,500 miles down the west coast of South America.
What are the Andes?
200
Power produced by running water.
What is hydroelectric power?
200
West of Latin America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
Three regions geographers divide Latin America into.
What is Middle America, Central America, and South America?
200
Tropical Hardwoods, palms, tree ferns, and bamboo.
What is a tropical rain forest?
200
A steep slope or cliff.
What is an escarpment?
300
Mountain ranges that run parallel.
What is a cordillera?
300
Nearly 4,000 miles long.
What is the Amazon River?
300
Result of the rain shadow effect.
What is the Atacama Desert?
300
2,500 to 6,500 feet above sea level
What is the Tierra Templada?
300
West coast of Mexico?
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental?
400
Dense covering formed by tall rain forest trees.
What is the canopy?
400
Highest navigable lake
What is Lake Titicaca?
400
Plains of Argentina and Uruguay.
What are the pampas?
400
World's largest rain forest.
What is the Amazon Rain Forest?
400
"High Plain"
What is the altiplano?
500
Cowboy on the plains of the pampas
What is gaucho?
500
Forms a long border between the US and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
500
Connects North America to South America.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
500
Barley, potatoes, and apples
What is the Tierra Fria?
500
South eastern Brazil
What is the Brazilian Highlands?