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Geo H Chap.2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Primate city | A country’s largest city |
| Indigenous | Aboriginal or native |
| NAFTA | The free-trade launched in 1994 involving the United States, Canada, and Mexico |
| Borderland | General term for a linear zone that parallels a political boundary |
| Maquiladora | The term given to modern industrial plants in Mexico’s U.S. border zone |
| 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 |
| Altitudinal zonation | Vertical regions defined by physical-environmental zones at various elevations, particularly in highlands of South and Middle America |
| Tropical deforestation | The clearing of tropical rainforests in order to make way for expanding settlement frontiers and the exploitation of few new economic opportunities |
| Culture hearth | Heartland, source area , or innovation center; place of origin of a major culture |
| Mestizo | Refers to a person of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry |
| Hacienda | A large estate in a Spanish speaking country |
| Plantations | A large estate owned by an individual that is used to produce cash crop |
| Connectivity | The degree of direct linkage between a particular location and other locations within a regional, national, or global transportation network |
| Small- island developing economies | The additional disadvantages faced by lower- income island- states because of their often small territorial size and populations as well as overland inaccessibility |
| Economies of small scale | The savings that accrue from large-scale production wherein the unit cost 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 they 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 country, mostly in cash; forms an economy in poorer countries |
| Intermodal transport system | One that smoothly integrates different surface transportation modes |
| Social stratification | In a layered or stratified society, the population is divided into a hierarchy of social |
| Mulatto | A person of mixed African and European ancestry |
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