Inca Caudillo Biodiversity Push Factors Andes Mountains NAFTA
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Latin America
Inca Caudillo Biodiversity Push Factors Andes Mountains NAFTA Junta Oligarchy Maquiladora Deforestation Spanish Conquest Llanos Mestizo Parana River Panama Canal Terraced Farming Cerrado Mercosur Land Reform Amazon River Treaty of Tordesillas Pampas Pull Factors Slash and Burn Orinoco River Debt-for-Nature Swap Greater Antilles Lesser Antilles Rain Forest Informal economy
1. mountains located along the Pacific coast of Central and South America
2. a factor that attracts people to another location
3. large, grassy, treeless area in South America used for grazing and farming
4. a factor that causes people to leave their homeland and migrate
5. a savanna with flat terrain and moderate rainfall, making it suitable for farming
6. growing crops on hillsides using step-like fields cut into the slope
7. vast area of grassland and rich soil in south central South America
8. clearing fields for planting by cutting vegetation and burning it
9. Venezuelan river and part of the South American northern-most river system
10. 3,000 mile river in South America originating in the highlands of Southern Brazil
11. the 2nd longest river in the world running 4,000 miles from West to East and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean
12. the conquering of the Native Americans by the Spanish
13. a factory in Mexico that assembles imported materials into finished goods to export
14. a canal cut through Panama connecting the Caribbean to the Pacific
15. North American Free Trade Agreement; a trade agreement creating a zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues in North America 16. people in the Andes Mountains of South America in the 15th and 16th centuries
17. a 1494 treaty between Spain and Portugal that gave Brazil to Portugal and the remainder of the region to Spain
18. the variety of organisms within an ecosystem
19. the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain more balanced land distribution among farmers
20. cutting down and clearing away trees and forests
21. a military dictator
22.______larger Caribbean islands such as Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
23.______dense deciduous forests with a wide variety of trees and a unique ecosystem.
24. a government run by generals after a military take-over
25. a government run by a few people or a small group
26. a debt-reducing deal where an organization agrees to pay off a certain amount of government debt in return for government protection of a certain portion of rain forest
27. people of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
28. a South American economic common market that began operating in 1995 (pg 234)
29.______jobs that take place outside of government taxation, regulation and protection
30.______the many smaller islands in the Caribbean to the south and east of the Greater Antilles