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planting plants that can suvive the elevation and weather while going up the mountains |
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| 1. | the state of being clear of trees | | 2. | the removal of trees |
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| the vast grassy plains of southern South America, esp. in Argentina. |
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| the number of people living per unit of an area (e.g. per square mile); the number of people relative to the space occupied by them |
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| the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate |
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| a climate having sunny, hot, dry summers and rainy winters |
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| the change in climate as your elevation changes |
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| a plain characterized by coarse grasses and scattered tree growth, esp. on the margins of the tropics where the rainfall is seasonal, as in eastern Africa. |
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| Tierra fria (Spanish for cold land) is a pseudoclimatological term used in Latin America to refer to mountain locations within that realm, where high altitude results in a markedly cooler climate than that encountered in the lowlands at a comparable latitude |
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| a subsea chasm extending along the crest of a mid-ocean ridge, locus of the magma upwellings that accompany seafloor spreading. |
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| a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, esp. one of a series of levels rising one above another |
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| earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment. |
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| a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land. |
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| 1. | a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person. |
| 2. | a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine. |
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| 1. | a large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago. |
| 2. | any large body of water with many islands. |
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| the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations. |
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| the linear zone of seismic and volcanic activity that coincides in general with the margins of the Pacific Plate. |
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| movements for control of their own country or groups against a political idea or government |
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| the region around the Amazon, in N South America. |
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| The Chasquis (also Chaskis) were agile and highly-trained runners that delivered messages, royal delicacies and other objects throughout the Inca Empire, principally in the service of the Sapa Inca. |
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