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worldgeo14
chapter 10 vocab
Term | Definition |
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plateau | an area of high flat land |
peninsula | a strip of land that juts out into a 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 Americans often run as a farm or cattle ranch |
land redistribution | |
ejido | |
subsistence farming | |
latifundio | |
cash crop | |
migrant worker | |
NAFTA | |
maquiladora |