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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conquistador | name for the Spanish explores who claimed land in Americas |
| cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture |
| caudillo | a Latin american military dictator |
| pampas | a grassland region in Argentina and Uruguay |
| cay | a small island, low island or coral reef |
| coral | the rock like skeletons of tiny sea animals |
| tropical storm | a storm that originates over a tropical ocean |
| El Nino | a warm ocean current off south america's |
| canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches |
| mestizo | a person of mixed European and native american |
| mulatto | a person of mixed African and European |
| hacienda | a large Spanish owned estate in the Americas |
| land redistribution | a policy by which land is taken |
| Ejido | farmland owned collectively by members |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for a family |
| latifundio | a large commercial farm owned by privet people |
| cash crop | a farm crop grown for sale and profit |
| migrant worker | a worker who travels from place to place |
| NAFTA | North american free trade agreement |
| quadrilateral | a factory in mexico along the united states |
| plateau | an area of high flat land |
| peninsula | a strip of land that juts out into a ocean |
| irrigation | the watering of farming with water drawn from rivers |
| sinkhole | a hole formed when limestone is dissolved |
| command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
| GDP per capita | the total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year |
| market economy | an economic system in which decisions about production price or determine by supply |
| traditional economy |