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- desalination
- the process of removing salt from seawater so that it can be used for drinking and irrigation
- wadi
- a usually dry riverbed or gully that temporarily holds water from a sudden downpour
- maquiladora
- a factory in Mexico, along the US border, that assembles goods for exports
- deciduous
- leaef-shedding; a type of tree that sheds its leaves during one season
- Ring of Fire
- a ring of volcanic mountains surrounding the pacific ocean
- sirocco
- a hot, dry wind from northern Africa
- mercenary
- a professional soldier hired by a foreign country
- colonialism
- the system by which countrues set up colonies to secure cources of raw materials and markets for their products
- tariff
- a tax imposed by a government on imported goods
- latifundio
- a large commercial farm owned by a provate individual or a farming company
- geothermal energy
- energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat
- hacienda
- a large spanish owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or a cattle ranch
- chaparral
- a type of natural vegetation that is adapted to Mediterranean climates
- El Nino
- a warm ocean current off South America's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns
- steppe
- a temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia
- federation
- a government structure in which some powers are given to the national gov and some are given to local governments
- archiplago
- a group of islands
- alluvial plain
- a broad expanse of land along riverbanks, consisting of rich, fertile soil left by floods