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World Geography H: Chapter 2 Vocab: The Middle American Realm

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Primate city   show
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show Aboriginal or native; an example would be the pre-Colombian inhabitants of the Americas  
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NAFTA   show
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Borderland   show
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show The term given to modern industrial plants in Mexico’s US border zone. These foreign-owned factories assemble imported components  
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show A narrow link between two large landmasses. However, these are temporary features and are subject to appearance and disappearance as the land or sea level rises and falls.  
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Archipelago   show
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Hurricane Alley   show
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Altitudinal zonation   show
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show The clearing and destruction of tropical rainforests in order to make way for expanding settlement frontiers and the exploitations of new economic opportunities.  
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Culture hearth   show
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Mestizo   show
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show A large estate in a Spanish-speaking country. Sometimes equated with the plantation, but there are important differences between these two types of agricultural enterprise.  
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Plantation   show
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Connectivity   show
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Small-island developing economies   show
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show The savings that accrue from large-scale production wherein the unit cost of manufacturing decreases as the level of operation enlarges. Supermarkets operate on this principle and are able to charge lower prices than small grocery stores.  
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Economic integration   show
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Acculturation   show
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show Cultural borrowing and two-way exchanges that occur when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact.  
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show Mexican farmlands redistributed to peasant communities after the Revolution of 1910-1917. The government holds title to the land, but user rights are parceled out to village communities and then to individuals for cultivation.  
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show A much higher than usual, world-class geographic concentration of natural plant and/or animal species. Tropical rainforest environments have dominated, but their recent ravaging by deforestation has had catastrophic results.  
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show Term referring to financial havens for foreign companies and individuals, who channel their earnings to accounts in such a country (usually an "offshore" island-state) to avoid paying taxes in their home countries.  
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show Money earned by emigrants that is sent back to family and friends in their home country, mostly in cash; forms an important part of the economy in poorer countries.  
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Intermodal transport system   show
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Social stratification   show
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Mulatto   show
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