World Geography Chapter 10
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| plateau | an area of high, flat land
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| peninsula | strip of land that juts out into the Pacific Ocean
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| irrigation | the artificial watering of farmland by storing and distributing water drawn from reservoirs or rivers.
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| sinkhole | when the roof of a cavern collapses
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| haciendas | large, Spanish-owned estates of land usually run as farms or cattle ranches
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| land redistribution | the government bought out land owners of haciendas and divided the land among landless peasants
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| ejidos | farmland owned collectively by member of a rural community
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| subsistence farming | only enough crops are grown to meet the family's needs
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| latifundios | commercial farms
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| cash crops | farm crops grown for sale and profit/sugar cane, coffee, fruit, corn
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| migrant workers | peasants who travel from place to place where extra workers are needed to cultivate or harvest crops
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| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement/designed to compete with the European Union
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| maquiladoras | factories that assemble products for consumers in the U.S.
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