Social Studies Unit 5 Vocabulary
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Escarpment
a steep cliff at the edge of a platuau with a low land area below
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Pampas
the treeless grassland of Argentina and Uruguay
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Temperate zone
a region with a climate that is neither too hot or too cold
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Indigenous
people who are believed to be the first people to settle an area
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Slash-and-burn agriculture
a method of farming that involves cutting down trees and underbrush and buring the area to create a field of crops
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Favela
an overcrowded city slum in Brazil
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Cash crop
a farm product grown for sale
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Encomienda
the Spanish system of enslaving Native Americans and making them practice Christianity
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Hacienda
a large estate
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Tariff
a tax added to the price of goods that are imported
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Cordillera
a region of parallel mountain chains
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Altiplano
the high plains
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Estuary
an area where river currents and the ocean tide meet