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chapter 9&&10 vocab
chaptwe 9 and 10 vocab
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 with another |
caudillo | A latin american military dictator |
pampas | a grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay |
cay | a small low island or coral reef |
coral | the rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals |
tropical storm | a storm with winds of at least 39 miles per hour |
hurricane | a destructive tropical storm that forms over the atlantic ocean usually in late summer and early fall with winds at least of 74 miles per hour |
El Nino | a warm ocean current off south americas northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns |
Canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet |
mestizo | A person of mixed european and native american heritage. |
mulatto | a person of mixed african and european ancestry |
plateau | an area of high, flat land |
peninsula | a strip of land that juts 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 a cattle ranch |
land redistribution | a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none. |
ejido | farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community |
subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village |
latifundio | a large commercial farm owned by a private individual 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 |
NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico |
maquiladora | A factory in Mexico along the United States Border that assembles goods for exports. |
market economy | an economic system in which decisions about production, price and other economic features 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 countrys total population |
command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use with little surplus and exchange of goods also known as subsistence farming |