Unit 4 Review SS
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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| Panama Canal | a shortcut that ships pay a fee to use to shorten time between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
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| Crude Oil | Petroleum, or crude oil, is a smelly, yellow-to-black liquid and is usually found in underground areas called reservoirs
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| Land bridge | an narrow piece of land that connects to larger masses of land
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| Region | an area large or small that have common characteristcs
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| Economy | the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., esp. with a view to its productivity.
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| isthmus | narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land
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| mineral | including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
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| maquiladora | factories that assemble parts that come from other countries
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| petroleum | an oily, thick, flammable, usually dark-colored liquid that occurring naturally and commonly obtained by drilling: used in a natural or refined state as fuel, or separated by distillation into gasoline, naphtha, benzene, kerosene, paraffin, etc
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| commonwealth | partly self governing territory
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| hacienda | large ranch
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| federal republic | government divided between national and state powers
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| escarpment | steep cliff between higher and lower land
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| embargo | order that restricts or prohibits trade with another country
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| literacy rate | percentage of people that can read and write
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| foothill | low hill at base of mountain range
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| empire | group of lands under one ruler
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| navigable | body of water wide and deep enough to allow the passage of ships
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| campesino | Columbian farmer
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| mestizo | person with mixed spanish and native american background.
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| pampas | vast treeless, grass covered plains of South America
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| hydroelectric power | electricity generated by flowing water
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| llanos | grassy plains
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| gaucho | cow hand
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| basin | low area surrounded by higher land
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| Amazon | a river in N South America, flowing E from the Peruvian Andes through N Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean: the largest river in the world
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| Hispanola | an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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