Unit III Vocab
Unit III Vocab for Unit III Test
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- Plantation
- Large commercial farm
- Escarpment
- A steep cliff between two leval areas at different heights
- Bauxite
- Mineral used in making aluminum
- Cordillera
- A parallel mountain range
- Guerilla
- A member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army; related to a form of warfare carried on by such an independent force
- Estuary
- A broad river mouth formed where a flooded river valley meets the sea
- Gasohol
- Alcohol based fuel
- Mulatto
- People of mixed African and other ancestry
- Gauchos
- A cowboy who herded cattle in the Pampas
- Latifundios
- Commercial farms in Mexico
- Hacienda
- Large, Spanish owned estates of land usually run as cattle ranches or farms
- Ecotourism
- Tourism that encourages environmental awareness
- Timber Line
- The boundary above which continuous forestt vegetation cannot grow
- Sinkhole
- A hole formed when limestone dissolves causing the land above to collapse
- Plateau
- An area of high, flat land
- Paramo
- Plateau or high plain in Ecuador
- Irrigation
- The artificial watering of farmland by storing and distributing water drawn from reservoirs or rivers
- Cash Crops
- Crops grown for sale or profit
- Migrant Workers
- Workers who travel from place to place where extra work is needed to cultivate or harvest crops
- Ejido
- Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community
- Coral Island
- Islands with flat terrain created by the remains of colonies of tiny, soft-bodied sea animals called coral polyps
- Leeward
- Facing away from the wind
- Land Redistribution
- A policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none
- Piedmont
- A foothills region
- Altiplano
- Plateau or high plain in Peru and Bolivia
- Pampas
- A grasslands region of Argentina and Uruguay
- Selva
- A forested region of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
- Maquiladora
- Factories that assemble products almost exclusively for consumers in the U.S.
- Sertao
- Interior plateau of Brazil, plagued by drought and poverty
- Subsistence Farming
- Growing only enough crops to meet their family's needs
- Favela
- Slum communities of Brazil
- Archipelago
- A group of island; an island chain
- Llanos
- Plains or grasslands in Venezuela
- Isthmus
- A narrow strip of land with water on both sides that connects two larger bodies of land
- Campesino
- Tenant farmer
- Deforestation
- Permanent removal of woodland
- Peninsula
- A strip of land almost completely surrounded by water; a strip of land surrounded by water on 3 sides
- Windward
- Facing the wind
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement