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Chapter 9 and 10
Vocabulary 9 and 10
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 interactions of the practices of their neighbors. |
Caudillo | A latin American military dictator |
pampas | A grasslands region in argentina and uruguay. |
cay | A small, low island or coral reef |
Coral | The rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals. |
tropical Storm | A storm with winds of at least 39 miles (63 km) per hour. |
Hurricane | A destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic Ocean, Usually in late summer an early fall, with winds of at least 74 miles (199 km) 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 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 countrys 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 a subsistence economy. |
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 the Americans, 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. |
Ejido | Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community. |
Subsistence farming | Framing that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village |
Latifundio | |
Cash Crop | |
Migrant Worker | |
NAFTA | |
Maquiladora |