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Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Primate City | A country’s largest city and usually(but not in every case) the capital as well |
Indigenous | Aboriginal or native |
NAFTA | The free-trade area launched in 1994 in obliging the US, Canada, and Mexico. |
Borderland | General term for a linear zone that parallels a political boundary. |
Maquiladora | The term given to industrial plants in Mexico’s US border zone. These foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials, and then export finished manufactures, mainly to the United States. |
Land bridge | A narrow isthmian link between two large land masses. |
Archipelago | A set of islands grouped closely together, usually elongated into a chain. |
Hurricane Alley | The most frequent pathway followed by tropical storms and hurricanes over the past 150 years in their generally westward movement across the Caribbean Basin. |
Altitudinal zonation | Vertical regions defined by physical-environmental zones at various elevations. |
Tropical deforestation | The clearing and destruction of tropical rainforests in order to make way for expanding settlement frontiers and the exploration of new economic opportunities. |
Culture hearth | Heartland, source area, or innovation center; place of origin of a major culture. |
Mestizo | Derived from the Latin word for mixed, refers to a person of mixed European(white) and Amerindian ancestry. |
Hacienda | A large estate in a Spanish-speaking country. |
Plantation | A large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. |
Connectivity | The degree of direct linkage between a particular location and other location within a regional, national, or global transportation network. |
Small-island developing economies | The additional disadvantages faced by lower-income island-states because if their often small territorial size and populations as well as overland inaccessibility. |
Economies of scale | The savings that accrue from large-scale production wherein the unit cost I’d manufacturing decreases as the level of operation enlarges. |
Economic integration | The economic benefits of forging supranational partnerships among three or more countries. |
Acculturation | Cultural modification resulting from intercultural borrowing. |
Transculturation | Cultural borrowing and two-way exchanges that occur when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact. |
Ejidos | Mexican farmlands redistributed to peasant communities after the Revolution of 1910-1917. |
Biodiversity hot spot | A much higher than usual, world-class geographic concentration of natural plant and/or animal species. |
Offshore banking | Term referring to financial havens for foreign companies and individuals, who channel their earnings to accounts in such a country to avoid paying taxes in their home countries. |
Remittances | Money earned by emigrants that is sent back to family and friends in their home countries. |
Intermodel transport system | One that smoothly interrogates different surface transportation modes. |
Social stratification | I’m a layered or stratified society, the population is divided into a hierarchy of social classes. |
Mulatto | A person of mixed African and European ancestry. |