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Chapter 2 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Primate City | A country's largest city-ranking atop its urban hierarchy -most expensive of the national culture and usually(but not in every case) the capital city as well. |
| Indigenous | Aboriginal or native. |
| NAFTA | The Free Trade Area launched in involving the United States, Canada, and Mexico. |
| Borderland | A borderland is a cultural transition zone. |
| Maquiladoras | The term given to modern industrial plants in Mexico's U.S. border zone. |
| Land bridge | A narrow isthmian link between two large landmasses. |
| 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 years. |
| 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 a way for expanding settlement frontiers and the exploitation of new economic opportunities. |
| Cultural Hearth | Heartland, source area, or innovative center; place of origin of a major culture. |
| Mestizo | Refers to a person of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. |
| Hacienda | Literally, 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 locations with a regional, national, or global transportation network. |
| Small Island developing economies | The additional disadvantages faced by lower income island state because of their often small territorial size and populations as well as overland inaccessibility. |
| Economies of scale | The saving that accrue from large scale production wherein the unit cost of manufacturing decreases as the operation enlarges. |
| Economic Interrogation | 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 1917. |
| Biodiversity hot spot | A much higher than usual, world class geographic concentration of natural plant and/or animal species. |
| offshore banking | Referring to financial haves for foreign companies and individuals who channel their earnings to accounts in such a country to avoid paying taxes in their home country. |
| Remmitances | Money earned by emigrants that is sent back to family and friends in their home country. Mostly in cash, forms an important part of the economy in poorer countries. |
| Social Stratification | In a layered or stratified society, the population is divided into a hierarchy of classes. |
| Mulatto | A person of mixed African and European ancestry. |
| Intermodal Transport system | One that smooth integrates different surface transportation modes. |
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