Unit 4 Vocab

3. Farming an Ancient Technique growing crops on hillsides or mountain slopes.
5. river in southern Brazil that is over 3000 miles.
10. the natural or human destruction of forests.
12. anything that can be used for the creation of wealth.
15. Environmental interaction the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment
16. Grassy Treeless areas.

1. development the practice of creating social and environmental policies that protect resources for future generations
2. areas of grasslands lands and rich soils.
4. everything on and around the Earth’s surface and atmosphere.
6. Mountains mountains the south American continent that travels through north, central and south America.
7. relating to and characteristic of being in the countryside
8. development process of creating wealth for the well-being of a region’s inhabitants.
9. relating to and characteristic of cities
11. and burn a technique the native people used to clear fields ,cut trees brush and grasses.
13. river that winds through the northern part of the continent
14. important resource in Latin America