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WGeo 7
Chapter 9 and 10 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conquistador | A name for the Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for spain |
| cultural convergence | The contact and interaction of one culture with another. |
| caudillo | A Latin American military dictator. |
| pampas | A grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay. |
| cay | a small. low island or coral reef |
| coral | The rock like skeleton of tiny sea animals. |
| tropical storm | A storm with wind speeds of 39 mph or higher. |
| Hurricane | A destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic Ocean, usually in late summer and early fall with winds of at least 74 mph |
| El Nino | A warm ocean current off South Americas northwestern coast that influences golbal weather patterns. |
| canopy | The upper most layer of a forest where the tree branches meet. |
| mestizo | A person of mixed European and Native american heritage |
| mulatto | a person of mixed African and European heritage. |
| 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 per capita | The total value of good and services produced within a country in a year divided by the country's total population. |
| Command Economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government. |
| traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, with little surplus and exchange of goods. |
| plateau | an area of high flat land |
| peninsula | a strip of land that juts out into an ocean |
| irrigation | the watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers |
| sinkhole | a hole formed when limestone is dissolved, causing the land above to collapse |
| hacienda | a large Spanish owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or cattle ranch |
| land redistribution | A policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who gave little or none. |
| ejido | farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or village. |
| latifundio | a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company |
| cash crop | a farm crop grown for sale and profit. |
| migrant worker | a worker who travels from place to place working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops. |
| nafta | North American free Trade Agreement which phased out trade barriers among the United States,Canada, and Mexico. |
| maquiladora | A factory in Mexico along the Unites States border that assemblese goods for export. |
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