Unit 7 Vocabulary- Mesoamerica

Chinampas

• materials found in the earth that people need and value

• Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.

• The cutting out of flat areas (terraces) into near vertical slopes to allow farming. Terrace farms appears as steps cut into a mountainside.

• A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

Terrace Farming

• A raised channel used to carry water from mountains into cities

• the study of physical features of the earth's surface

• The cutting out of flat areas into near vertical slopes to allow farming. Appears as steps cut into a mountainside.

• An early form of corn grown by Native Americans

Resources

• place where people live such as a town, city or village.

• Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.

• A raised channel used to carry water from mountains into cities

• materials found in the earth that people need and value

Human Settlement

• place where people live such as a town, city or village.

• materials found in the earth that people need and value

• An early form of corn grown by Native Americans

• A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

Maize

• Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.

• place where people live such as a town, city or village.

• An early form of corn grown by Native Americans

• the study of physical features of the earth's surface

Aqueduct

• A raised channel used to carry water from mountains into cities

• The cutting out of flat areas (terraces) into near vertical slopes to allow farming. Terrace farms appears as steps cut into a mountainside.

• A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

• Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.

Physical Geography

• A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

• the study of physical features of the earth's surface

• A raised channel used to carry water from mountains into cities

• materials found in the earth that people need and value

Peninsula

• An early form of corn grown by Native Americans

• materials found in the earth that people need and value

• The cutting out of flat areas (terraces) into near vertical slopes to allow farming. Terrace farms appears as steps cut into a mountainside.

• A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

The picture is an example of what?

• Chinampas

• Resources

• Terrace Farming

• Aqueducts

This picture is an example of what?

• Lake

• Aqueduct

• Maize

• Chinampas