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- cordillera
- mountain range
- cash crop
- crops sold for money
- geothermal energy
- energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth
- permafrost
- permanently frozen layer of soil on a tundra
- mestizo
- a person with both Spanish or Portuguese and Native American ancestry
- isthmus
- a narrow band of tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- demography
- scientific study of human populations
- ally
- a friendly nation
- lichens
- crusty fungi that grow on rocks and trees
- tributary
- a branch that flows into the main stream
- constitutional monarchy
- A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution.
- communism
- a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
- monarchy
- government under a single ruler
- archipelago
- a group of many islands in a large body of water
- cay
- island
- indigenous
- Native to a place.
- land locked
- a country that is completely surrounded by land, and has no access to the ocean
- savanna
- a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
- capitalism
- economic system in which private citizens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits.
- fjord
- a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs
- democracy
- the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives