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Final test for geography about Latin America

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What are push and pull factors?   Factors that make people leave one place and factors that make people come to a place.  
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What is slash-and-burn?   Agriculture technique to clear fields. First used by the natives.  
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What is an infrastructure?   Government support programs to improve economy.  
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Tourism?   Positives and negatives  
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What is the spanish conquest?   1519-1521 Cortes takes over Aztecs  
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What is Tenochtitlan?   City that Cortes reached and took over Aztecs.  
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What is the PRI?   1929 political party  
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What are maquiladoras?   Factories that used imported materials to create an exported product  
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What is NAFTA?   North American Free Trade Agreement  
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WHat is Calypso?   Caribbean music genre  
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What is the United Provinces if Central America?   Name of Central America after won independence from Mexico 1823  
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What is Reggae?   Music genre from Jamaica 1960's  
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What is cultural hearth?   Place where important ideas spread  
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What is Panama Canal?   Important trade center  
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Who is Francisco Pizarro?   Invaded Inca Empire  
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What is a mercosur?   Economic market in 1995  
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Who are the Inca?   People from Siberia to Alaska  
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What is quechua?   Language of the Inca  
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What is the authoritatian rule?   Against individual freedom  
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What is Dept-for nature swap?   When government in exchange for the saving of a piece of forest.  
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What is a biodiversity?   Wide range of plant and animal species  
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What is rain forest deforestation?   Destroying of the forest  
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Education?   Very little,many illiterate,  
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Jobs?   Very little, hard work,  
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What is an oligarchy?   Government by the few  
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What is land reform?   Land given to the poor farmers  
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What is a junta?   Government powerful by military  
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Problems for democracy?   Colonization  
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Goals to reform Democracy?   Establish government,Political and economic stability,Increase role for women in politics  
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MAP   Colombia Venezuela Guyana Suriname French Ecuador Peru Brazil Bolivia Paraguay Chile Argentina Uruuay  
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