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Geography Chapter 9 & 10 vocabulary

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show Name for the Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain  
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show The contact and interaction of one culture with another  
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caudillo   show
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pampas   show
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cay   show
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show The rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals  
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show A storm with winds of at least 39 miles (63 km) per hour  
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hurricane   show
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El Niño   show
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canopy   show
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mestizo   show
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show A person of mixed African and European ancestry  
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show An economic system in which decisions about production, price, and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand  
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show The total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by the country's total population  
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show An economic system that is controlled by a single central government  
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traditional economy   show
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show An area of high, flat land  
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show A strip of land that juts out into an ocean  
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show The watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers  
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sinkhole   show
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show A large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or cattle ranch  
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show A policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none  
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ejido   show
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subsistence farming   show
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latifundio   show
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show A farm crop grown for sale and profit  
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show A worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops  
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NAFTA   show
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maquiladora   show
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