Latin America Vocabulary geography

3. Areas of land trying to becoming their own country
6. Grassy, treeless plains from southern America used for growing grain
9. A high plateau in the Andes Mountains
11. Floating farms made by humans buy the Aztecs
12. Pictures made by glass, stone, or tiles usually on walls
13. Makeshift home made for the poor, homeless, impoverished
14. The top layer of a rain forest, when all of the tops of the trees are together
16. South American cow herders or “cowboys”
17. A range or chain of mountains
18. Fertile plains across the Caribbean coast in South America

1. steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower surface of land
2. A very big/large city
4. Modern Latin American which have large estates owned by corporations or family
5. The loss or destruction of forests because us humans are over-logging and taking all of the land for our use
7. Small farms that make food for local markets and their family, and other families
8. Crops used to be sold or traded then used by the farm family
10. Resources that are shipped to other countries
12. Mexico manufacturing plants set by foreign firms
15. painted pictures on walls