South America Vocabulary

a farming method of clearing land by cutting down and burning forest and vegetation

• Deforestation
• Slash and burn
• Desertification
• Plowing

a forest with warm temperatures, high humidity, and thick vegetation that receives more than 100 inches of rain per year

• Pampas
• Desert
• Ocean
• Rainforest

cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep up with its use

• Renewable resources
• Reproduceable resources
• Nonrenewable resources
• Slash and burn

a raw material or energy source that replaces itself over time

• Nonrenewable resources
• Renewable resources
• Fossil Fuels
• Bologna sandwiches

an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country

• boycott
• import
• embargo
• export

the exchange of plants, animals, and disease between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that began in the 1500s

• Whole Foods
• French Revolution
• Napolean Bonaparte
• Columbian Exhange

a belief that everything, including objects in nature has a soul

• Socialism
• Communism
• Cubism
• Animism

the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

• Colonization
• Realization
• Specialization
• Imperialism

a land or water route to move people and goods from place to place easily

• Transportation Barrier
• Transportation Corridor
• Blockade
• Embargo

Geographic features that prevent or slow down transportation. 

• Transportation Barrier
• Transportation Corridor
• Import
• Export