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Vocabulary Quiz-Thursday 1. Galapagos Islands-islands west of Equador, great variety of animal & plant species, Charles Darwin visited & studied species 2. naturalist-a scientist who studies plant & animal life 3. species-having some common characteristics or qualities; distinct sort or kind. 4. Incas- the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the spanish conquest. 5. tropics6. Andes Mts.-runs along western South America, one of world’s highest mountain ranges. 7. Tierra del Fuego-southern tip of South America, “the land of fire” 8. Amazon Basin-land drained by the Amazon river 9. gauchos- South American cowboys 10. pampas: flat, grasslands 11. Patagonia-south of Argentina, cold, dry, windy region 12. favelas- roughly built huts, (neighborhoods), slum houses
