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Chapter 9 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Conquistador | 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 grassland region in Argentina and Uruguay. |
Cay | A small low island or coral reef. |
Coral | The rock like skeletons of tiny sea animals. |
Tropical storm | A storm with winds of at least 39 miles per hour. |
Hurricane | A destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic ocean usually in late 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. |
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. |
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 ear, divided by the country's total population. |
Command economy | An economic system that 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 also known as subsistance economy. |
Plateau | An area of high, flat land. |
Peninsula | A strip of land that just 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 the Americas often run as a farm or a cattle ranch. |
Land Redistrubution | 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 united states and Canada and mexico. |
Maquiladora | A factory in Mexico along the united states border that assembles goods for export. |