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22 Cards in this Set
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Andes Mountains |
5,500 miles along the west coast of South America |
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amazon river basin |
largest river basin in the world |
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llanos |
grasslands or wide open areas |
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Angel Falls |
highest waterfall in the world |
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subsistence farming |
grow only enough food to feed your family |
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tributaries |
small rivers or creeks which drain into larger ones |
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biodiversity |
variety of plants, animals and insects in an ecosystem |
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rain shadow effect |
mountains block weather , so one side of the mountain has plentiful precipitation and the other side has little to no precipitation |
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currents |
continuous movement of water or air in the same direction |
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transpiration |
process by which plants release water vapor |
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greenhouse gas |
a gas that traps heat energy, warming the Earth |
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descendant |
relative from the past |
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kinship |
blood relationship or common land ownership group |
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suspension bridge |
bridge used to cross canyons or rivers |
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Machu Pichu |
greatest of all Inca engineering feats |
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geoglyphs |
large geometric designs drawn by the Nasca |
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nomads |
people who move from place to place |
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slash and burn |
cut and burn trees and vegetation for farmland |
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convert |
persuade to change |
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monopoly |
complete control |
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exile |
state of absence from one's home country |
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liberate |
to set someone or something free |
