REVIEWING CHAPTER VOCABULARY TER
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VOCABULARY MASTER
Review Study the terms in the box. Use your Glossary to find
definitions of those you do not remember.
Anglo-America
basin
cartographer
climate
frigid zone
hemisphere
heritage
Latin America
mainland
peninsula
plain
plateau
prairie
precipitation
region
strait
temperate zone
temperature
territory
tropics
tundra
volcano
weather
Practice Complete the paragraphs using terms from the box above.
You may change the forms of the terms to fit the meaning.
The languages of the Spanish and Portuguese people who settled in Central and
South America spread so widely that today the region is known as (1) Latino America
A (2) cartographer making a map of the area south of the United States might use
Western (3) hemisphere
as a title for the map.
If the map was made to show the shape of the land, it would show both upland and
lowland regions. Central and South America have some of the highest peaks in the world.
These peaks can be found in the Andes Mountains and in the chain of
(4) Denio gula
that stretches from the southern end of the Mexican
into Central America. The map would also show a huge area of
lowland in South America. This lowland forms the (6) Anglo America of the famous
Amazon River.
Because most countries in this region are in the (7) feuritory
warm climates. However, a climate map of the region would show that
(8) weather
can be warm in one place and cold in another. Places located in
upland areas are usually cooler than those on the lowlands.
(5) region
they have
Write Choose ten terms from the box above. Use each term to write a
sentence of your own. You may use the back of the sheet.
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