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vocabulary
chapter 9 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conquistadors | name for the spanish explorers who claimed land in the americas for Spain. |
| cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another. |
| caudillos | A latin american military dictator. |
| pampas | a grasslands region in argentina and uruguay. |
| cays | a small low islan dor coral reef. |
| coral | the rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals. |
| tropical storms | a storm with winds of at least 39 miles per hour. |
| hurricanes | a destructive tropical storm that forms over the atlantic ocean, usually in lae summer and early fall, with winds of at least 74 miles per hour. |
| El Nino | a warm ocean current off south americas northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns. |
| Mestizos | a person of mixed european and native american heritage |
| mulattoes | a person of mixed african and european ancestry. |
| Canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet. |
| 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 per capita | the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by the countries total population. |
| command economy | an economic system which is controlled by a single central government. |
| traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use with little surplus and exchange of goods alson known as a substance economy. |
| Plateau | an area of high flat land. |
| peninsula | a strip of land that juts out into a ocean. |
| irrigation | the watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers. |
| haciendas | 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. |
| ejidos | farmland owned collectivelly by members of a rural community. |
| subsistience farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village. |
| latifundios | a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company. |
| cash crops | a farm crop grown for sale and profit. |
| migrant workers | 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 along the united states canada and nexico. |
| maquiladoras | a factory in mexico along the united states border that assembles goods for export. |
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