Unit 4 Latin America

Question 0

Terraced farming

Answer 0

Stair like technique used to farm on hill

Question 1

Slash and burn agriculture

Answer 1

Cutting down forests and burning remains to clear for plantation, makes soil more fertile

Question 2

Institutional revolutionary party (pri)

Answer 2

Political that ruled Mexico for a long time until recently

Question 3

Mestizo

Answer 3

A person with mixed blood, usually native and Spanish

Question 4

Immigration

Answer 4

People who move from one country to another

Question 5

Emigration

Answer 5

Moving away from a country

Question 6

Maquiladora

Answer 6

Mexican assembly plant that manufactures and sends good to USA, usually owned by non- Mexicans

Question 7

Panama Canal

Answer 7

Canal through panama, made by USA, connects Atlantic and pacific

Question 8

Informal economy

Answer 8

Economy that isn’t taxed

Question 9

Treaty of tordesillas

Answer 9

Divided South America, east (Brazil) to Portugal , west to Spain

Question 10

Pampas

Answer 10

Fertile lowlands covering southeast of South America

Question 11

Llanos

Answer 11

vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.

Question 12

Amazon river

Answer 12

In South America

Question 13

Deforestation

Answer 13

Cutting down of forests

Question 14

Global warming

Answer 14

Earth slowing heating and melting ice caps

Question 15

Debt for nature swap

Answer 15

Agreement made with private businesses that states the business will pay off some government debt and the government will preserve an area of the rainforest

Question 16

Oligarchy

Answer 16

Ruled by a group of people

Question 17

Junta

Answer 17

: a military group controlling a government after taking control of it by force

Question 18

Caudillo

Answer 18

Government run by military leaders

Question 19

Land reform

Answer 19

measures designed to effect a more equitable distribution of agricultural land especially by governmental action

Question 20

Mercosur

Answer 20

Free trade agreement for Latin America