| A | B |
|---|
| Canopy | the dense mass of leaves and branches that form the top layer of a rainforest |
| Amazon Rain Forest | a large tropical rain forest occupying the Amazon Basin in northern South America |
| Rio de Janeiro | a large city in Brazil |
| Brasilia | Brazil's nw capital city |
| Savanna | a flat, grassy region, or plain |
| Altiplano | a high plateau in the Andes Mountains |
| Sierra | the mountain region of Peru |
| Oasis | a fertile area in a desert that has a source of water |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain, whose expedition first circumnavigated the globe |
| Circumnavigate | to sail or fly all the way around something such as Earth |
| Glacier | a large, slow-moving mass of ice and snow |
| Augusto Pinochet Ugarte | military dicatotor of Chile from 1973 to 1988 |
| Caracas | the capital of Venezuela |
| Boom | a period of business growth and prosperity |
| Privatization | the government's sale of land or industries it owns to private businesses or individuals |
| Coup | the overthrow of a ruler or government by an organized group, which then takes power |
