Central American Geo
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- Mexico City
- The capital of Mexico
- Belmopan
- The Capital Of Belize
- windward
- on the side exposed to the wind
- migrant worker
- a laborer who travels from one area to another, picking crops that are in season
- landslide
- a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
- San Salvador
- capital of El Salvador
- hacienda
- the main house on a ranch or large estate
- leeward
- the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
- seismic wave
- A wave of energy that travels through the Earth and away from an Earthquake in all directons.
- Tegucigalpa
- The Capital Of Honduras
- Managua
- The Capital Of Nicaragua
- irrigation
- supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- peninsula
- land surrounded by water on three sides
- epicenter
- The point on the earth's surface directly above the focus
- tsunami
- a huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)
- archipelago
- a group of many islands in a large body of water
- isthmus
- a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas
- ejido
- land granted by the Mexican government to an organized group of peasants
- plateau
- a relatively flat highland
- maquiladora
- an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border)
- sinkhole
- A sinking, circular depression.
- earthquake
- sudden movement in the rocks that make up the earth's crust
- avalanche
- a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
- aftershock
- a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake
- Guatemala City
- The Capital Of Guatemala
- Panama City
- The Capital Of Panama
- guerrilla
- fighters who use hit n run attacks
- coral island
- Islands with flat terrain created by the remains of colonies of tiny, soft-bodied sea animals called coral polyps
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- latifundio
- huge commercial farms owned by individuals or by farming companies
- infrastructure
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- cash crop
- crops sold for money
- San Jose
- the capital of Costa Rica
- subsistence farming
- farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing
- land redistribution
- estates were divided among landless peasants