Exploring South America
7th grade social studies
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- photosynthesis
- process in which trees and green plants produce their own food and give off oxygen
- Quechua
- Native American's living in Peru
- Lake Maracaibo
- Lake in Venezuela. Venezuela's largest petroleum deposit is under it
- Rio de Janeiro
- Large city that grew up around harbors on Brazil's coast
- Andes
- mountains that run down Chile's whole east side
- Altiplano
- a high platuae region in the Andes mountains
- Cuzco
- City in Peru, that is the cite of the ancient Incan capital
- pesticde
- chemical used to kill insects and stop diseases that can hurt crops
- Aymara
- Group of people who live on Lake Titicaca. They make islands on lake, out of tortora reeds, to live on
- Montaña
- large stretches of tropical forests on the lower slopes of mountians in Northest Peru
- Caracas
- Capital of Venezuela
- boom
- period of increased prosperity during which more of a product is produced or sold
- Lake Titicaca
- Lake in Eastern Peru that the Aymara live on. Located in a high plateau region in the Andes mountians.
- Yanomamo
- Native American group that lives in the rain forest
- Brasilia
- Capital city of Brazil. Located in an area that used to be a savanna. Closer to the rain forest then other cities.
- tundra
- area where no trees grow because the soil is always cold
- Santiago
- capital city of Chile
- Sierra
- mountian range in Peru that runs from Northwest to Southeast Peru
- canopy
- dense mass of leaves at top of the trees in the rain forest
- Salvadore
- Brazilian city on the Atlantic coast. Most people who live here decended from African slaves. Resembles an African town.
- privitization
- when the government sells its industries to individuals or private companies
- Atacama Desert
- One of the driest regions in the world. Located in Northern Chile