Latin America Final Word Scramble
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Campesinos | a native of a Latin-American rural area; especially : a Latin-American Indian farmer or farm laborer |
Canopy | a continuous layer of leaves |
Cash Crops | crops produced in large quantities to be sold or traded |
Chinampas | "floating islands" made from large rafts covered w/mud from the lake bottom |
Commodity | goods produced for sale |
Conquistador | a spanish conqueror |
Cordilleras | parallel mountain ranges |
Developing Countries | countries that are working toward greater manufacturing & technological use |
Estuary | area where tide meets the river current |
Export | to sell to other countries |
Gauchos | a cowboy of Argentinian and Uruguayan pampas |
Geology | science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks |
Glyphs | picture writings carved in stone on temples to honor their deities and record their history |
Indigenous | the descendant's of the natives of the land |
Latifundia | wealthy families or corporations that own large estates |
Llanos | open grassy plain (fertile plains) in inland areas of Colombia and Venezuela |
Maquiladoras | manufacturing plants |
Minifundia | small plots of land intensively farmed by campesinos to feed their families |
Mosaics | pictures or designs made by setting small bits of colored stone, tile, or shell into mortar |
Murals | wall paintings |
NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; in 1992 Mexico, US, and Canada signed it |
Pampas | the grassy treeless plains of southern south america |
Quipa | series of knotted cords of various colors and lengths (for calculating) |
Service Industries | provides services rather than goods |
Spatial Diffusion | describes the phenomena such as technological ideas, cultural innovations, disease, or economic goods, travel over space... |
Subsistence Agriculture | small-scale agriculture that provides primarily for the needs of just a family or village |
Sustainable Developement | technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area |
Tierra Caliente | "hot land" -lower elevation |
Tierra Templada | "temperate land" - perfect elevation |
Tierra Fria | "Cold land" - high elevation |
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