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Chapter 9-10 vocab
conquistador | name for the spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain |
cultural convergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
caudillo | a Latin american military dictator |
tropical storm | a storm with winds atleast 39 mph |
hurricane | a destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic ocean, usually in late summer, early fall, with winds of at least 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 of mixed European and Native American heritage |
mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
pampas | a grassland region in Argentina and Uruguay |
cay | a small, low island or coral reef |
coral | the rock like skeletons of tiny sea animals |
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 Americas, often run as a farm or cattle ranch |
land redistribution | a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistribute 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 individual or a farming company |
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 US, Canada, and Mexico |
maquiladora | a factory in Mexico along the US border, that assembles goods for export |