For midterm
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Campesinos | a native of a Latin-American rural area; especially : a Latin-American Indian farmer or farm laborer
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| Canopy | a continuous layer of leaves
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| Cash Crops | crops produced in large quantities to be sold or traded
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| Chinampas | "floating islands" made from large rafts covered w/mud from the lake bottom
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| Commodity | goods produced for sale
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| Conquistador | a spanish conqueror
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| Cordilleras | parallel mountain ranges
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| Developing Countries | countries that are working toward greater manufacturing & technological use
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| Estuary | area where tide meets the river current
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| Export | to sell to other countries
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| Gauchos | a cowboy of Argentinian and Uruguayan pampas
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| Geology | science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
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| Glyphs | picture writings carved in stone on temples to honor their deities and record their history
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| Indigenous | the descendant's of the natives of the land
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| Latifundia | wealthy families or corporations that own large estates
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| Llanos | open grassy plain (fertile plains) in inland areas of Colombia and Venezuela
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| Maquiladoras | manufacturing plants
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| Minifundia | small plots of land intensively farmed by campesinos to feed their families
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| Mosaics | pictures or designs made by setting small bits of colored stone, tile, or shell into mortar
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| Murals | wall paintings
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| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; in 1992 Mexico, US, and Canada signed it
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| Pampas | the grassy treeless plains of southern south america
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| Quipa | series of knotted cords of various colors and lengths (for calculating)
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| Service Industries | provides services rather than goods
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| Spatial Diffusion | describes the phenomena such as technological ideas, cultural innovations, disease, or economic goods, travel over space...
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| Subsistence Agriculture | small-scale agriculture that provides primarily for the needs of just a family or village
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| Sustainable Developement | technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
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| Tierra Caliente | "hot land" -lower elevation
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| Tierra Templada | "temperate land" - perfect elevation
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| Tierra Fria | "Cold land" - high elevation
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