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Chapter 9-13
Chapter 9-10
Term | Definition |
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Conquistador | name for the Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for spain |
Cultural Convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture to another. |
Caudillo | a Latin american military dictator. |
Pampas | A grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay |
Cay | A small low island or coral |
Coral | the rock like skeletons of tiny sea animals |
Tropical Storm | A storm with winds of at least 39 miles ( 63 km per hour |
Hurricane | A destructive tropicals storm that forms over the Atlantic Ocean usually in late summer and early fall with winds of the least 74 miles (119 km ) per hour |
El Nino | A warm ocean current off south América's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns |
Canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches mee |
Mestizo | a person of mixed European and native american heritage |
Mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
Market Economy | an economic system in which decisions about production, price, and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand. |
GDP Per Capita | the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by the country's total population. |
Command Economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
plateu | an are of high, flat land |
peninsula | a strip of land that just out into an ocean. |
irrigation | the watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers |
sinkhole | a hole formed when limestone is dissolved causing the land above to collapse. |
hacienda | a large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or cattle ranch. |
land retribution | a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have a little or none. |
ejido | farmland owned collectively by members of a rural comunity |
subsistance farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or village |
latifunndio | a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or or a farming company |
cash crop | a farm crop grown for sale and profit. |
migrant worker | a worker who travels from place to place ,working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops . |
maquiladora | a factory in mexico along the united states border,that assembles goods for export |
Isthmus | a narrow strip of land having water on each side joining two largest bodies of land |
Guerilla | a member of an armed forced that is not part of a regular army; relating to a form of warfare carried on by such and imdepence armed force |