Chapter 9&10 vocabulary
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| conquistidors | spanish explorer
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| cultural convergence | merging of cultures
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| caudillos | local military leaders
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| pampas | grassy plain in southeastern south america
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| cays | underground mountain
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| coaral | skeleton of tiny sea animals
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| tropical storms | a storm with winds at least 39 mph
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| hurricanes | a destructive tropical storm , winds atleast 74 miles oer hour
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| El Nino | a warm current that that influences global weather patterns
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| Mestizos | people with mixed ethinic heritage
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| mulattoes | ancestry of african and european
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| traditional economy | a system that is found in rural areas of less developed countries
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| market economy | 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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| GDF per capita | total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, and divided among populationan
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| command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government
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| canopy | uppermost layer of the forest where the trees meet
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| plateau | an area of high flat land
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| peninsula | a strip of land that goes into the pacific ocean
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| irrigation | artificial watering of farmland by distributing waters from resivoirs
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| sinkhole | when a roof of a cavern collapses
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| hacienda | large spanish owned estate of land, that usually runs as a farm or for cattle
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| land redistribution | the distribution of extra land to landless peasents
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| ejido | farmland owned by members of a rural community
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| substitce farming | only grow enough to fit your needs
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| latifundio | commercial farming owned by individuals or a company
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| cash crops | farm crops grown for sale and profit
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| migration worker | Travel from place to place where extra workers are needed
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| NAFTA | North American free trade agreement which phased out trade barriers among the U.S. Canada and Mexico
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| maquiladora | is a factory that assembles products specificly fpr the U.S.
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