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worldgeo14
chapter 9 vocab
Term | Definition |
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conruistador | name for the spanish explores who claimed land in the americas for spain |
cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
caudillo | a latin america military dictator |
panpas | a grasslad region in argentina and urugauy |
cay | small low island or coral reef |
coral | the rock lite skeletons of tiny sea animals |
tropical storm | a storm with winds at least 39 mph |
hurricane | a destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic ocean,usually in late summer and early fall with winds of at east 74 mph |
El Nino | a warm ocean current off south america's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns |
canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet |
mestizo | a person mixed European and native American |
mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
market economy | an economic system in which decisions about production price and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand |
GDP | the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year including the domestic out put of foreign firms and excluding the output of foreign countries |
command economy | an economy system that is controlled by a single central government |
traditonal economy | an economy system in which families produce goods and services for thier own use with little srplus and exchange of goods; also know as a subsistence economy |
per capita | per person |