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Term | Definition |
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conquistador | 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 Latio 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 of south Americas northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns |
canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest were 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 year divided ny the country's total population |
command economy | an economic system that is controlled ny a single central government |
traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use with little surplus an 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 drawnb form |
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 redistribution | a policy by which land is taken form 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 | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village |
latifundio | a large farming 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 form 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 Canada and mexico |
maquiladora | a factory in mexico along the United status border that assembles foods for export |