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worldgeo14
chapter 9 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conruistador | 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 latin america military dictator |
| panpas | a grasslad region in argentina and urugauy |
| cay | small low island or coral reef |
| coral | the rock lite skeletons of tiny sea animals |
| tropical storm | a storm with winds at least 39 mph |
| hurricane | a destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic ocean,usually in late summer and early fall with winds of at east 74 mph |
| El Nino | a warm ocean current off south america's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns |
| canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet |
| mestizo | a person mixed European and native American |
| 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 | the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year including the domestic out put of foreign firms and excluding the output of foreign countries |
| command economy | an economy system that is controlled by a single central government |
| traditonal economy | an economy system in which families produce goods and services for thier own use with little srplus and exchange of goods; also know as a subsistence economy |
| per capita | per person |
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