Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

vocabulary

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
caudillos   a latin american military dictator  
🗑
conquistadors   name for the Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spanish  
🗑
cultural convergence   the contact and interaction of one culture with another  
🗑
pampas   a grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay  
🗑
cays   a small low island or coral reef  
🗑
coral   the rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals  
🗑
physical characteristics    
🗑
physical processes    
🗑
natural hazards    
🗑
tropical storms    
🗑
hurricanes    
🗑
climates    
🗑
geographic tools    
🗑
economic activities    
🗑
mestizos    
🗑
mulattoes    
🗑
patterns of settlement    
🗑
migration    
🗑
cultures    
🗑
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 indicidual  
🗑
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 assemble goods for export  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: michaelburgess
Popular Geography sets