Vocabulary South America

When rainclouds are prevented from moving across a mountain chain creating a desert.

• Rain mirror

• Rain cycle

• Rain barrier

• Rain Shadow

The variety different species of living things in a place

• biodiversity

• tropics

• trade winds

• indigenous

A slow moving mass of ice formed over land

• glacier

• gaucho

• rain shadow

• indigenous

The act of growing plants or raising animals for food or other uses

• agriculture

• omniculture

• paraculture

• monoculture

The area of the Earth close to the equator, in between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn

• Trade winds

• tropics

• Latin America

• Patagonia

native or originating from a particular place

• mestizo

• biodiversity

• indigenous

• tropics

A cowboy from Argentina

• Mestizo

• Gaucho

• vaquero

• luchador

Which country is the Atacama desert in?

• Chile

• Brazil

• Argentina

• Venezuela

What country is most of the Amazon Rainforest in?

• Brazil

• Argentina

• Chile

• Peru

What is the southernmost region of South America called which is in Argentina and Chile?

• Pampas

• Patagonia

• Guiana

• Sonora