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South & Central America Key Terms - Coggle Diagram
South & Central America Key Terms
Alpine - of, relating to, or resembling the Alps or any mountains.
Altiplano - a high plateau or plain
Basin - depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface.
Biome - an area classified according to the species that live in that location.
Drought - a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area.
Copper - a metallic element which is used for many things.
Estuary - a partially enclosed, coastal water body where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the ocean.
Arboreal - adapted to living on trees.
Archipelago - an area that contains a chain or group of islands scattered in lakes, rivers, or the ocean.
Biodiversity - all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area.
Canopy - the above-ground portion of vegetation in forests consisting of the tops of trees forming a kind of ceiling.
Chinchilla - squirrel-sized South American rodents of the Andes mountains.
Coastal plain - a plain extending inland from a seashore commonly the result of geologically recent emergence of the land.
Dense - the number of things which could be people, animals, plants, or objects in a certain area.
Endangered species - a type of organism that is threatened by extinction.
Watershed - an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel.
Waterfall - a river or other body of water's steep fall over a rocky ledge into a plunge pool below.
Tropical - regions of the Earth that lie roughly in the middle of the globe.
Tributary - a freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream, river or other body of water.
Thermal inversion - a layer in the atmosphere in which air temperature increases with height
Savanna - vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by an open tree canopy.
Rainforest - an area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall.
Plateau - a flat, elevated landform that rises sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.
Plain - a broad area of relatively flat land.
Patagonia - a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina .
