Unit 3: South America Terms

Match the following

• The variety of species in an ecosystem

• Greenhouse Gas

• Small river that drains into a larger river

• Biodiversity

• Blood or Family relationship

• Kinship

• A gas that traps the sun's heat over Earth

• Subsistence Farming

• Farming to grow only enough food for families to eat, not to sell.

• Tributary

Match the following

• When mountains are cut into flat fields

• Slash and Burn

• An object made by humans from a past culture

• Artifact

• Farming method of clearing land by cutting down and burning forest and vegetation

• Terraced

• A person who hunts animals and gathers plants and fruits for food

• Monopoly

• The complete control of the market for a service or product

• Hunter-Gatherer

Match the following

• to set something or someone free

• liberate

• a reversal of usual and ocean currents

• Exile

• To revolt or resistance of authority

• El Niño

• to be forced to leave a country

• vegetation

• plant life

• Rebellion

Match the following

• the continuous movement of air or water in the same direction

• Adapt

• a dry region on one side of a mountain range

• rain shadow

• to adjust or modify to fit

• current

• wide open areas used for grazing and crops

• grasslands

• a process by which plants and trees release water vapor into the air

• transpiration

Match the following

• a string of mountain ranges that stretch along the western side of the continent

• acknowledge

• to recognize

• Llanos

• to soak thoroughly

• Andes Mountains

• grasslands, wide open areas used for grazing and crops

• Amazon River Basin

• the largest river basin on Earth

• saturate

Match the following

• Highest waterfall in the world, located in Venezuela

• Atacama Desert

• Desert found on the Western border of the Andes Mountains and on the border of Chile and Bolivia

• Pampas

• rich soil of the grassy plain in Argentina is ideal for growing alfalfa, corn, and wheat

• Angel Falls