ch 9-10 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
maritime | boarding on or near the sea; relating to navigation or shipping |
province | a territory governed as a political division of a country |
secede | withdraw formally from membership in a political or religious organization |
separatism | |
irrigation | watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or river |
peninsula | a strip of land the jubs out int the ocean |
plateau | area of high, flat land |
sinkwhole | a hole formed when limestone is dissolved causing the land above to collapsemovement |
cash crop | a farm crop grown for sale and profit |
ejido | farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community |
hacienda | Large Spanish owned estate in the America's often run as a farm |
land redistribution | policy by which land is taken from those who own large amout |
latifundio | large commercial farm own by a private individaul or farming company |
migrant worker | worker who travels place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops |
maquiladora | factory in mexico along the U.S border, that assembles goods for export |
NAFTA | north american free trade agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the united states Canada and Mexico |
substance farming |
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