Central America Flashcards
What is costal plains
Which are the lowlands next to the sea cost
What is a isthmus
A narrow strip connecting two large land areas
What is rain forest
Heavily wooded forest that may receive 100 inches rain per year
What is archipelago
Chain islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea
What is a tectonic plates
A part of the earth crust moved agains other plates
What cause tectonic plate a
Land rise and mountain and volcanoes form
Seismic
Activity and volcanoes eruption
What means critical
The extremely important service and supplies that a community need
What is. Ecosystem
Place where plants and animals rely on the environment to survive
What is deforestation
Forests are cleared for commercial farmlands and for grazing cattle to supply the beef industry
Rain first land is not very
Fertile
Able to produce plentiful crops is ….
Fertile
What bring tourism
Income to the region and provides jobs so rural people
What is cash crops
Crops for profit
Who is explored and what means
Took advantage of the labor of native people
What is triangular trade
Exchanged in what become
For what continents provide the triangular trade
America Europe and Africa
Why are competing Portugal,France ,and Britain with Spain
To control over de trade and colonization of the Americans
Viceroy is ?
Governors who represent the Spanish king and queen
What is priviedence ?
Small part of large nation
Who was the first Caribbean island that be independent ?
Haiti
What is intersection ?
The meeting point for trades and settlers from many countries
What course the tourism to the local people
Electricity and consume vast amount of water and good that shortage
Why is important the food
Exchange new influence continued to the region diet
