Chapter 8 Vocabulary Words

2. River/ The longest river in South America and second-largest in the world.It drains half of South America and flows from the Andes Mountains across Brazil into the Atlantc Ocean.
4. A person of mixed Indian and European ancestrey.
5. mountains/ The largest mountain system in the world. They extend along the west coast of South America
7. rain forest/ A warm, tropical area with high anual rainfall and many trees and other plants growing close together
8. A graph that shows information about the temperature precipitation of a place over a period of time.
10. The practice of making a person the property of another person.
11. between Uruguway and Argenitna.
12. fria/ Latin America's cold region, found at higher elevations 6,000 feet
13. de la Plata/ The river system through which the Parana and Uruguway rivers flow into the Atlantic Ocean. It is located on the southeastern coast of South

1. South America's vast, grassy, treeless plains that extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Andes Mountains in Argentina and other countries.
3. River/ A large river in South America, rising in Columbia and flowing across Venezuela into the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Area/ A large city and the suburbs and towns that surround it.
6. Deep and wide enough to allow boats or ships to travel.
9. A person of mixed african and European ancestrey.