Ch.9&10 vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
conquistador | Name for the spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain |
cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
Caudillo | A Latin American military dictator |
pampas | A grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay |
cay | a small, low island or coral reef |
coral | the rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals |
tropical storm | a storm that originates over a tropical ocean and whirls around a low |
hurricane | a destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic Ocean, usually in late summer and early fall, with winds at least 74 miles per hour |
El Nino | a warm ocean current off south america's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns |
canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet |
mestizo | a person of mixed European and Native American heritage |
mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
market economy | |
GDP per capita | |
Command economy | |
traditional economy |
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