Geography-Latin America
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 agrarian reform | peasants demanding land redistribution through the process of agrarian reform |
| Altiplano | the treeless high plain in Peru and Bolivia |
| CAFTA | an indicator of heightened economic integration in the western hemisphere- eliminates barriers to trade and investment |
| dependency theory | economic development only occurs through self-sufficiency and internal markets. Strong state intervention with less trade |
| Import Substitution | making imported products extremely expensive and domestic manufactured goods cheaper |
| grassification | conversion of tropical forest into pasture, contributes to deforestation |
| informal sector | provision of goods and services without the benefit of government regulation, registration and taxation |
| Maquiladora | Mexican assembly plants that line the border with the US and are characteristic of manufacturing systems in an increasingly globalized economy |
| Latifundia | long observed practice of maintaining large estates where peasants work the estates |
| Minifundia | peasants farming small plots for their subsistance- leads to permanent or shifting cultivation. Small farmers typically plant a mixture of crops |
| megacity | a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people |
| OAS | organization of american states- an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation |
| Mercosur | the southern cone common market- an organization promoting economic cooperation |
| Mestizo | racial category- mixed ancestry |
| neo-liberalism | stresses privatization, export production, and few restrictions on imports. No government intervention, one strong agricultural commodity |
| neo-tropics | tropical ecosystems of the western hemisphere |
| remittance | money sent back home from immigrants |
| shield | large upland areas of exposed crystalline rock that are similar to upland plateaus |
| squatter settlement | area where many of the urban poor live in self built housing on land that does not belong to them. Found in the periferico |
| sub-national organization | groups that represent areas or people within the state |
| supra-national organization | governing bodies that include several states |
| syncretic religion | blends of different belief systems |
| treaty of tordesillas | result of portugese presence in the americas- divided land between spain and portugal |
| urban primacy | when there is one city 3 times larger than all other cities |
| Bioregion | assemblage of local plants and animals, most probably the tropical savanna of africa |
| Biome | the biogeographic term used to describes a grouping of the worlds flora and fauna- similar "biomes" is like similar vegetation, and climate regions |
| climate region | are where similar atmospheric conditions prevail |
| anthropogenic | human caused |
| greenhouse effect | trapping of incoming and outgoing solar radiation by an array of natural greenhouse gases in the atmospheric layer closest to earth |
| global warming | pollution of the lower atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect. increase int he temperature of the earths atmosphere |
| thermal inversion | all bad air is trapped by a layer of cold air over a city b/c of high elevation |
| Curitiba | city that simulates a "green" approach well. Example to other cities |
| River Basins | Amazon, Plata, Orinoco |
| elite spine | commerical and business strip that extends from the colonical core to the newer parts of the city |
| Periferico | highway that encircles city |
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