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Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10
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most of Latin America's countries still depend on what to supply a major portion of their incomes?
agriculture
export
sell to other countries
name some crops exported by latin america
bananas, sugarcane, coffee
campesinos
rural farmers and workers
latifundia
highly mechanized commercial operations that yeild high returns for low investment in labor
minifundia
small plots of land intensively famred by campesinos to feed their families
What happens as latifundia become more mechanized?
farmworkers are leaving the land for the cities
cash crops
crops produced in large quantities to be sold or traded
Fertile highlands help make what countries the world's leading coffee producers?
Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia
tropical coastal areas make what area/countries major producers of bananas?
Central America as well as Jamaica, Honduras, Ecuador, and Brazil
Tropical climates and fertile soil also help make what the world's leading sugar cane producers?
Brazil and Cuba
Which Latin American countries raise cattle?
Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil
Why do countries run great risks when they depend on just one or two export products?
because if floods, droughts, or volcanic eruptions destroy a country's cash crop, the damage to the country's economy causes great hardship
What devastated parts of Central America and destroyed about 90% of the banana crop in Honduras?
Hurricane Mitch
developing countries
countries that are working toward greater manufacturing and technology use
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