Unit 4 Latin America Flashcards
(21 cards)
Terraced farming
Stair like technique used to farm on hill
Slash and burn agriculture
Cutting down forests and burning remains to clear for plantation, makes soil more fertile
Institutional revolutionary party (pri)
Political that ruled Mexico for a long time until recently
Mestizo
A person with mixed blood, usually native and Spanish
Immigration
People who move from one country to another
Emigration
Moving away from a country
Maquiladora
Mexican assembly plant that manufactures and sends good to USA, usually owned by non- Mexicans
Panama Canal
Canal through panama, made by USA, connects Atlantic and pacific
Informal economy
Economy that isn’t taxed
Treaty of tordesillas
Divided South America, east (Brazil) to Portugal , west to Spain
Pampas
Fertile lowlands covering southeast of South America
Llanos
vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.
Amazon river
In South America
Deforestation
Cutting down of forests
Global warming
Earth slowing heating and melting ice caps
Debt for nature swap
Agreement made with private businesses that states the business will pay off some government debt and the government will preserve an area of the rainforest
Oligarchy
Ruled by a group of people
Junta
: a military group controlling a government after taking control of it by force
Caudillo
Government run by military leaders
Land reform
measures designed to effect a more equitable distribution of agricultural land especially by governmental action
Mercosur
Free trade agreement for Latin America
