WorksheetsUnit 3 Latin American Vocabulary Part 1
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
...a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela
Llanos
Pampas
Cerrados
Altiplanos
...a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil
Pampas
Cerrado
Altiplano
Llanos
Traditional farming method in which all trees and plants in an area are cut and burned to add nutrients to the soil.
Slash-and-Burn
Deforestation
Reforestation
Shantytown
Replanting young trees or seeds on lands where trees have been cut or destroyed.
Slash-and-Burn
Deforestation
Reforestation
Shantytown
Country in the process of becoming industrialized.
Cultural Diffusion
Developing Country
Cultura Hearth
Mega City
a person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially mixed American Indian and European descent in the Americas
Indigenous
Mestizo
Mulatto
Pampas
A steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower land surface
escarpment
plantation
plateau
terrace farming
high, flat plains where the Andes are the widest
pampas
altiplano
cerrados
llanos
Large farms that grow only one cash crop.
plantation
cerrado
escarpment
terrace farming
an urban area that has more than 10 million people
megacity
plantation
cultural hearth
developing country
One group responsible for creating interdependence in the Americas is
the United Nations (UN)
the European Union (EU)
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Cutting flat steps or terraces into the side of a mountain to have more land to cultivate is known as
tribute
quechua
terrace farming
chinampas farming
