Latin America Vocabulary

Electric power created by rushing water.

• El Nino

• Hydropower

• Pampas

• Plateau

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

A river or stream that flows into a larger river.

• Tributary

• Plateau

• Natural resource

• Elevation

The height of land above sea level.

• El Nino

• Pampas

• Rainforest

• Elevation

Flat grassland in South America, a region similar to Great Plains in the United States.

• Economy

• Plateau

• Pampas

• Isthmus

A large raised area of mostly level land.

• Plateau

• Pampas

• Tributary

• Isthmus

A dense forest that has rainfall all year long like the Amazon in South America.

• Pampas

• Rainforest

• Plateau

• Isthmus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A narrow strip of land that has water on both sides and joins larger bodies of land.

• Pampas

• Plateau

• Isthmus

• Tributary

The way goods and services are produced and made available to people.

• Hydroelectricity

• Pampas

• Elevation

• Economy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

Things found in nature and used by man.

• Natural Resources

• Economy

• Plateau

• Elevation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

A warming of the ocean water along the western coast of South America. This current influences global weather patterns.

• Tributary

• Elevation

• El Nino

• Natural Resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6