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Chapter 9 & 10 Vocabulary

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show Name for Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain.  
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Cultural Convergence   show
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show A Latin American military dictator.  
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Pampas   show
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show A small, low island or coral reef.  
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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 Nino   show
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Canopy   show
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show A person of mixed European and Native American heritage.  
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Mulatto   show
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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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GDP per capita   show
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Command Economy   show
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Traditional Economy   show
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Plateau   show
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show A strip of land that juts out into an ocean.  
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Irrigation   show
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Sinkhole   show
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Hacienda   show
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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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show Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community.  
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Subsistence farming   show
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show A large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company.  
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Cash Crop   show
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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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show North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.  
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maquiladora   show
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