Geography Latin America Test
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Jennymay196 on April 17, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Conquistadors | Spanish Explorers and conquerors from Europe |
| Cultural Convergence | Merging of cultures that lead to a new culture |
| Caudillos | Local Military rulers |
| Pampas | Grassy plains in southeastern South America |
| Cays | A small low island, or coral reef |
| Tropical Storm | Storm with at least 39 miles per hour winds |
| Hurricanes | Storm with at least 74 miles per hour winds |
| Mestizos | People of both European and Native American descent |
| Mullatoes | People with ancestery with African American and European descent |
| Plateau | An area of High, flat land |
| Peninsula | Strip of land that juts out into the Pacific Ocean |
| Aztec | In Mexico City, "followers", grew crops on chinapmas, made islands, followers, covered mud from bottom of the lake |
| Tenochtitlan | Center of an empire that spread over much of south central Mexico, built on an island in a lake, one of the hugest cities in the world |
| Cortes | Spanish Adventurer who took spaniards and destroyed the Aztecs land and it's capital |
| Haciendas | Large spanish- owned estates of land, usually run as farms or cattle ranches |
| Subsistence Farming | People grow only enough crops to feed their families |
| Latifundios | Huge commerical farms usually owned by individuals and or by farming companies |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade agreement, designed to compete with the European Union, a free-trade network in Europe. |
| Isthmus | A narrow strip of land, with water on both sides, that connects two larger bodies of land |
| Guerilla | A member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army; relating to a form of welfare carried on by such an independent and armed force |
| Archipelago | A group of islands |
| Escarpment | A steep cliff that separates two level areas of differing elevations |
| Sertao | An interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain |
| Favelas | A slum community in a Brazilian City |
| Deforestation | Permanent removal of woodland |
| Ecotourism | Tourism that encourages enviromental awareness and has little effect on the ecosystem |
| Llanos | A grassy plain |
| Angel Falls | Worlds largest waterfall located in the Guianas |
| Amazon River | Largest River |
| Altiplano | A plateau region located in the Andes above Bolivia and Peru |
| Selva | A forested area in Bolivia, Peru...etc. |
| Vertical Trade | People trade goods up and down a mountain |
| Lake Titicaca | Borders between Bolivia and Peru, most navigatable lake in the world |
| Gauchos | A boy who herded cattle in the pampa's of Uruaguay and Argentina |
| Inca | In the Andes, Equador, Chile, emperor with central gov, built irrigation systems, domesticated alpha and llama, constructed temples, cut terraces into slopes of andes to keep soil from washing away |
| Maya | In Central American, and southern mexico, priests and nobles, built many cities, pyrmid- shaped temples, terraces, courts, developed symbol for math based on 20, created the calendar |
| Gold | What kind of oil is in Venezuela? |
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