Term | Definition |
1.Conquistador | Name for the Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain. |
2.Cultural Convergence | The contact and interaction of one culture with another. |
3.Caudillo | A Latin American military dictator. |
4.Pampas | A grasslands region in Argentina of Ecuador. |
5.Cay | A small, low island or coral reef. |
6.Coral | The rock like skeletons of tiny sea animals. |
7.Tropical Storm | A storm with winds of at least 39 miles per hour. |
8.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. |
9.El Nino | A warm ocean current off South America's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns. |
10.Canopy | The uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet. |
11.Mestizo | A person of mixed European and Native American heritage. |
12.Mulatto | A person of mixed African and European ancestry. |
13.Market Economy | An economic system in which decisions about production , price, and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand. |
14.GDP Per Capita | The total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by the country's total population. |
15.Command Economy | An economic system that is controlled by a single central government. |
16.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. |
17.Plateau | An area of high, flat land. |
18.Peninsula | A strip of land that juts out into an ocean. |
19.Irrigation | The watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers. |
20.Sinkhole | A hole formed when limestone is dissolved, causing the land above to collapse. |
21.Hacienda | A large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or a cattle ranch. |
22.Land Redistribution | A policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none. |
23.Ejido | Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community. |
24.Subsistence Farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village. |
25.Latifundio | A large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company. |
26.Cash crop | A farm crop grown for sale and profit. |
27.Migrant Worker | a worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops. |
28.NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. |
29.Maquiladora | A factory in mexico, along the United States border, that assembles goods for export. |