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Geography
Chapter 9 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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plaza | public square in Latin America city around which government buildings and major churches were built |
vaquero | Mexican cowhand |
maquiladora | a foreign-owned factory in Mexico where workers assemble parts make in other countries |
subsistence farm | small plot of land on which a farmer grows only enough food to feed his or her family |
plantation | large farm |
migrant worker | person who earns a living by temporarily moving to a place separate from his or her home in order to work |
literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and write |
command economy | economic system in which the government decides how resources are used and what good and services are produced |
remittance | money sent back home by workers who leave their home country to work in other nations |
commonwealth | self-governing territory |
selva | Brazilian name for the Amazonian rain forest |
favela | on overcrowded city slum of Brazil |
gaucho | cowhand in Argentina |
national debt | money owed by the government |
default | failure to make payments that are due to lender |
sodium nitrate | mineral used in fertilizers and explosives |