Chapter 12 Word Bank
Chapter 12 Word Bank
Terms
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- Gauchos
- Argentine cowboys
- El Nino
- (oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
- Chibcha
- Early people of the Columbian Andes who developed gold-working skills
- Inca
- Founders of South America's greatest early civilization
- Andes
- a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast
- Tar Sands
- Rock or sand layers that contain oils
- La Nina
- An ocean and weather pattern that causes the eastern Pacific Ocean to be colder than normal
- Coup
- A change of government caused by a group taking control by force
- Terrorism
- The use of fear and violence as a political force
- Portuguese
- the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil
- Amazon Basin
- the home of the world's largest tropical rainforests, runs along the Amazon river
- Tepuis
- A chain of high plateaus in the Guinea Highlands
- Lake Maracaibo
- the lake that the Europeans landed at first; oil
- Favelas
- large slums in urban areas of Brazil
- Tree Line
- The line of elevation above which trees do not grow
- Landlocked
- Having no coast on the ocean
- Llanos
- plains region of eastern Colombia and western Venezuela
- Minifundia
- Small South American farms created when large colonial estates break up.
- Lake Titicaca
- the lake between Bolivia and Peru; highest lake in the world on which ships can travel
- Buffer State
- a small neutral state between two more powerful countries
- Latifundia
- Large estates in Sounth America
- Pampas
- the vast grassy plains of northern Argentina
- Manioc
- Tropical plant with starchy roots
- Llaneros
- cowboys of the Venezuelan plains
- Mercosur
- South American organization whose purpose is to expand trade, improve transportation, and reduce tariffs among member countries