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Vocab Unit 3
Vocab for Unit 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cordillera | An extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially in the Andes or the Rockies. |
| Altiplano | the high tableland of central South America. |
| Escarpment | A steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top. |
| Llanos | A large, grassy. treeless area in South America, used for grazing and farming. |
| Pampas | A vast area of grassland and rich soil in South-central South America. |
| Gaucho | a cowboy of the South American pampas. |
| Hydroelectric Power | the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower |
| Estuary | A broadened seaward end of a river, where the ricer's currents meet the ocean's tide. |
| indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. |
| Dialect | a version of a language that reflects changes in speech patterns due to class, region, or cultural changes |
| NAFTA | an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries. |
| Spanish Conquest | The conquering of the Native Americans by the Spanish. |
| Mestizo | A person of mixed French-Canadian and Native American ancestry. |
| Calypso | A style of music that began in Trinidad and combines musical elements from Africa, Spain, and the Caribbean |
| Inca | A member of Quechen peoples of South America who built a civilization in the Andes Mountains in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
| Carnival | The most colorful feast day in Brazil |
| Capoeria | A martial art and dance that developed in Brazil from Angolans who were taken there by the Portuguese from Africa. |
| Deforestation | the clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land. |
| Caudillo | A military dictator or political boss. |
| Cerrado | A savanna that has flat terrain and moderate rainfall, which make it suitable for farming. |
| Pull Factor | A factor that draws or attracts people to another location |
| Tenochtitlan | the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City. |
| Cultural Hearth | The heartland or place of origin of a major culture; a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to other cultures. |
| Reggae | a style of popular music with a strongly accented subsidiary beat, originating in Jamaica. |
| Mercosur | a sub-regional bloc. Its full members are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. |
| Samba | a Brazilian dance with African influences. |
| Biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. |
| oligarchy | A government run by a few person or a small group |
| Junta | A government run by a general after a military takeover. |
| Terraced Farming | a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces for the purposes of more effective farming. |
| Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. |
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | The political party introduced in 1929 in Mexico that helped to introduce democracy and maintain political stability for much of the 20th century. |
| United Provinces of Cen. Amer. | The name of Central America after the region declared independence from Mexico in 1823. |
| Informal Economy | activities and income that are partially or fully outside government regulation, taxation, and observation. |
| Treaty of tordesillas | agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered |
| Debt-for-nature-swap | A debt-reducing deal. An organization pays off certain amount of government debt for exchange of protection on certain portion of the rain forest. |
| Land reform | A naturally formed feature on the surface of the earth. |
| Slash and burn | of, relating to, or denoting a method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown |
| Maquiladora | a factory in Mexico that assembles imported materials into finished goods for export. |
| Push Factor | A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region |
| Quechua | The language of Inca Empire, now Spoken in the Andes highlands. |
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