Vocab Ch 9&10 – Flashcards
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salpingo-
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bingo
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pampas
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a grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay
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conqistador
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name for the Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for spain
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cultural divergence
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the restriction of a culture from outside influences
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caudillo
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a Latin american military dictator
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cay
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a small, low island or coral reef
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coral
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the rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals
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tropical storm
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a storm with winds of at least 39 miles
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hurricane
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a destructive tropical storm that forms over the atlantic ocean usually in late summer and early fall with winds of at least 74 miles per hour
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el nino
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a warm ocean current off south america's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns
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canopy
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the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet
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mestizo
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a person of mixed European and native american heritage
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multatto
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African and european
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market economy
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an economic system in which decisions about production price and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand
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GDP per capita
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the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by the country's total population
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command economy
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an economic system that is controlled by a single central government
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traditional economy
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an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use with little surplus and exchange of goods; also known as a subsistence economy
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plateau
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an area of high, flat land
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peninsula
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a strip of land that juts out into an ocean
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irrigation
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the watering farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers
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sinkhole
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a hole formed when limestone is dissolved causing the land above to collapse
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hacienda
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a large Spanish owned estate in the Americas often run as farm or cattle ranch
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land redistribution
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a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none
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ejido
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farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community
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subsistence farming
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farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village
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latifundio
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a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company
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cash crop
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a farm crop grown for sale and profit
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migrant worker
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a worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops
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NAFTA
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North American Free Trade Agreement- which phased out trade barriers among the US, Canada, and Mexico
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maquiladora
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a factory in Mexico, along the United States border, that assembles goods for export
