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41 Cards in this Set
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Andes Mountains
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a long mountain range along the west coast of South America
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cordillera
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a mountain system made up of roughly parallel ranges
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Guiana Highlands
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a large plateau region in northern South America
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Llanos
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a plains region in South America
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Orinoco River
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a major river in Venezuela
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Cartagena
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a coastal city in northern Colombia
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Bogota
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the capital of Colombia
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guerilla
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a member of an irregular military force
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llanero
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a Venezuelan cowboy
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Lake Maracaibo
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an oil-rich body of water in Venezuela
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Caracas
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the capital of Venezuela
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strike
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a work stoppage by a group of workers until their demands are met
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referendum
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a recall vote
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Amazon River
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the major river in South America
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Rio de la Plata
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a body of water in South America
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estuary
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a partially enclosed body of water where freshwater mixes with salty seawater
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Pampas
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a fertile plains region in southern South America located mainly in Argentina
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deforestation
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the clearing of trees
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soil exhaustion
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the process of soil becoming infertile because it has lost nutrients needed by plants
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Sao Paulo
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the largest city in Brazil and South America
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megacity
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a giant urban area that includes surrounding cities and suburbs
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Rio de Janeiro
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the second-largest city in Brazil; it is a major port city and Brazil’s former capita
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favela
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a huge slum in Brazil
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Brasilia
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the capital of Brazil
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Manaus
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a major port and industrial city in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest
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gaucho
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an Argentine cowboy
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Buenos Aires
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the capital of Argetina
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Mercosur
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an organization that promotes trade and economic cooperation among the southern and eastern countries of South America
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informal economy
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a part of the economy that is based on odd jobs that people perform without government regulation through taxes
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landlocked
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completely surrounded by land with no direct access to the ocean
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altiplano
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a broad, high plateau that lies between the ridges of the Andes
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strait
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a narrow passageway that connects two large bodies of water
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Atacama Desert
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a desert located in northern Chile near the border with Peru
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El Nino
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an ocean and weather pattern that affects the Pacific coast of the Americas; about every two to seven years, it warms normally cool ocean water and causes extreme ocean and weather events
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viceroy
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governor
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Creole
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an American-born descendant of Europeans
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Quito
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the capital of Ecuador
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La Paz
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the capital of Bolivia
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Lima
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the capital of Peru
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coup
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a sudden overthrow of a government by a small group of people
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Santiago
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the capital of Chile
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