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Latin America Vocab Flashcards

1
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Plateau

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An area of high, flat land

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Peninsula

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Strip of land that juts out into an ocean

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Irrigation

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Artificial watering of farmland by storing and distributing water drawn from reservoirs or rivers

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4
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Sinkhole

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When the roof of a cavern collapses

When limestone dissolves

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Hacienda

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Large, Spanish-owned estates of land
Farms
Cattle ranches

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6
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Land redistribution

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Large hacienda estates were divided among landless peasants

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Ejido

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Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community

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Subsistence farming

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Grow only enough crops to meet needs

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Latifundio

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Huge commercial farms owned by individuals or farming companies

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Cash crop

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Farm crops grown for sale and profit by latifundios

Corn, sugar cane, coffee, fruits

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11
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NAFTA

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North America Free Trade Agreement
Phased out trade barriers among
North America

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Maquiladora

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A factory that produces clothes and other goods by the border
Employs many people

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Migrant worker

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Landless, jobless, peasants

Travel from place to place where extra workers are needed to cultivate or harvest crops

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Isthmus

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A narrow strip of land with water on both sides

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Guerrilla

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Armed forces outside of the regular army

Often fight in small bands

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Archipelago

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Group of islands

17
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Coral island

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Islands with flatter terrain, created by coral polyps’ skeletons

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Windward

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Facing the wind

Green

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Leeward

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Facing away from the wind

Desert

20
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Escarpment

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A steep cliff between 2 level areas of land at different heights

21
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Sertão

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Interior plateau

22
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Favela

A

Slum communities

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Plantation

A

Large commercial farms

An estate farmed by many workers

24
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Gasohol

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Fuel
A mixture of gasoline and ethanol
Made from Brazil’s sugar cane

25
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Deforestation

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Permanent removal of woodland

26
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Ecotourism

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Tourism that encourages environmental awareness and has little effect on the ecosystem

27
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Mulatto

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People of mixed African and other ancestry

28
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Bauxite

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A mineral used in making aluminum

Guyana and suriname

29
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Llano

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Grassland, savanna, “plains”

30
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Cordillera

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Mountain ranges

31
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Campesino

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Tenant farmers

Grow cash crop coffee

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Altiplano

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High plain, Peru, Bolivia

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Páramo

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A plateau in the Andes of ecuadir

34
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Timber line

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The boundary above which continuous forest vegetation cannot grow

35
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Selva

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A forested region in Ecuador, Peru, and bolivia

36
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Estuary

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A broad iver mouth formed where a flooded river valley meets the sea

37
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Piedmont

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Foothills

38
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Pampas

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Temperate grasslands

Argentina, uruguay

39
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Gaucho

A

Cowboys who herded cattle in the pampas

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