W.G.: Atlantic & Pacific South America
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- A term South Americans use for the thick rain forest vegetation found in the eastern region meaning "forest".
- What are Selvas? (245)
- In southern Peru, where the eastern and western ridges of the Andes Mtns. separate forming a broad highland plain between.
- What is the Altiplano? (247)
- An unusual weather pattern involving a warming of part of the Pacific Ocean, that occurs every five to ten years and causes a decrease in fish and an increase in flooding in some areas.
- What is El Nino? (248)
- The use of violence as a means of political force.
- What is Terrorism? (248 )
- An overthrow of the existing government by another political or military group.
- What is a military Coup ? (248)
- The Spanish Colonial system of land ownership brought over by Europeans, whereby tenant farmers work part of the land from their own labor. The large estates on which tenants work.
- What is the Latifundia system? (250)
- After land reform, the government divided some large estates into small farms for families.
- What are Minifundios? (250)
- A small country that separates two larger competing countries.
- What is a Buffer State? (234)
- A term referring to the loss of soil nutrients that results from always planting the same crop in a particular area.
- What is Soil Exhaustion? (236)
- Northern cities of Atlantic S.A.are filled with huge slum areas called _______.
- What are Favelas? (237)
- A metropolitan area given official help to strengthen its economic development.
- What is a Growth Pole? (238)
- A substance gathered from quebracho trees of the Chaco, used to soften and preserve leather.
- What is Tannin? (240)
- A country that is completely surrounded by land and does not have an access to the ocean.
- What is Landlocked? (242)