Unit 4 Vocab

Question 1

Ecotourism

Answer 1

Seeing importance of environment/nature in a country

Question 2

Subsistence farming

Answer 2

Farming only enough for yourself

Question 3

Terracing

Answer 3

Man made farming built on the side of a mountain

Question 4

Insurgents

Answer 4

People who rise up to fight against drug wars

Question 5

Arable land

Answer 5

Farmable land

Question 6

Infrastructure

Answer 6

The systems need in an area

Ex. Education, roads, buildings

Question 7

El Niño

Answer 7

West coast of North and South America are warmer and wetter, while East coast is cold and dry.

Question 8

Ecosystem

Answer 8

All plants and animals and micro organisms (biotic factors) in an area functioning together with each other.

Question 9

Junta

Answer 9

Government controlled by military elites

Question 10

Caudillo

Answer 10

Dictator

Question 11

Oligarchy

Answer 11

Government controlled by a group of people

Question 12

Debt-For-Nature Swap

Answer 12

U.S. forgives country’s debt so they can keep their nature factor

Question 13

Global warming

Answer 13

Greenhouse gases resulting in the melting of frozen ice.

Question 14

Deforestation

Answer 14

Damaging forest

Question 15

Biodiversity

Answer 15

Many different plant and animal species in an area

Question 16

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 16

Created in 1494, divided Portugal and Spain in South America

Question 17

Quechua

Answer 17

Native Inca language

Question 18

In a

Answer 18

Indians in the Andes Mountains

Question 19

Informal Economy

Answer 19

Citizens don’t pay taxes to their government

Question 20

Panama Canal

Answer 20

Man made waterway built through North America for the purpose of trading between Europe and Asia

Question 21

Cultural Hearth

Answer 21

Where a country originates

Question 22

NAFTA

Answer 22

North America Free Trade Agreement: created in 1990 by Bill Clinton, took away tariffs between US, Canada and Mexico

Question 23

Maquiladora

Answer 23

Factory

Question 24

Mestizo

Answer 24

Mix of Mexican and Native people

Question 25

PRI

Answer 25

Institutional Revolutionary Party: democracy, more land, redistribution

Question 26

Amazon River

Answer 26

Over 1000 tributaries feed into the Amazon River, drains an a era almost the size of the U.S., second longest river in the world, drains 60 times more water than Nile.

Question 27

Pampas

Answer 27

In Argentina, used for farming and grazing

Question 28

Llanos

Answer 28

In Venezula, used for farming and grazing

Question 29

Andes Mountains

Answer 29

2nd highest range in the world, 1st length wise, run from Chile to Panama

Question 30

Thermal Inversion

Answer 30

Heat trapped in valley