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unit 2
honors geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| primate city | a countries largest city |
| indigenous | aboriginal or native ex. the pre Colombian inhabitants of the Americas |
| NAFTA | the free trade area launched in 1994 involving the united states Canada and Mexico |
| Borderland | general term for linear zone that parallels a political boundary |
| Maquiladoras | the term given to modern industrial plants in Mexico's us border zone assemble imported components or raw materials |
| Land Bridge | a narrow isthmian link between two large landmasses they are temporary features |
| Archipelago | a set of islands grouped closely together usually elongated into a chain |
| Hurricane alley | the most frequent pathway followed by tropical storms and hurricanes over the past 150 years in their generally westward movement across the Caribbean basin |
| Altittudinal zonation | vertical regions defined by physical environmental zones at various elevations particularly in the highlands of the south and middle america |
| Tropical deforestation | the clearing and destruction of tropical rainforests |
| culture health | heartland, source area, or innovation center |
| mestizo | derived from the Latin word for mixed, refers to a person of mixed European and Amerindish nationality |
| hacienda | literally, a large estate in a Spanish speaking country |
| plantation | a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce cash crop |
| connectiuvity | the degree of linkage between a particular location and other locations. |
| small island developing economies | the additional disadvantages faced by lower-income island estates because of their often small territorial size. |
| economies of scale | the savings that accrue from large scale production wherein the unit of cost of manufacturing decreases as the level of operation changes |
| economic integration | the economies benefits of forging supranational partnerships |
| acculturation | cultural modification resulting from intellectual borrowing |
| transculturation | cultural borrowing and two way exchanges that occur when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact |
| ejidos | Mexican farmlands redistributed to peasant communities after the revolution of 1910-1917 |
| biodioversity hot spot | a higher world class geographic concentration of plant and animal species |
| offshore banking | term referring to financial heavens for foreign companies and individuals, who channel their earnings into an account in a diff. country |
| remittances | money earned by emigrants that is sent back to family and friends back home |
| intermodal transport system | one that smoothly integrates surface transportation modes |
| social strafation | in a layered or stratified society, the population is divided into a hierarchy of social classes |
| mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
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