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14 Cards in this Set
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isthmus |
A narrow strip of flat land that connects two larger land areas. |
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carribbean sea |
an arm of the alantic ocean between north and south america |
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archipelago |
A large group of islands |
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greater antillies |
an island group in the carribean that includes cuba jamaica and porto rica |
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lesser antillies |
a group of small island in the carribean they stretch from virginia island in the north triniad in the south |
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cloud forest |
is a moist high elevation tropical forest where low clouds are common. |
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ecotourism |
the practice of using an areas natural enviroment to attract tourist |
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civil war |
a civil war is a conflict between two or more groups within a country |
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panama canal |
a canal built by the united states in the 1900 across the isthmus of panama. |
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dialect |
or a regional variety of language. |
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commonwealth |
is a self governing territory associated with another country |
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refugee |
someone who flees to another country |
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havana |
the capital of cuba |
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cooperitive |
an orginization owned by its memebers |
