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Land bridge
DEFINITION:an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals |
With some migrating over the Bering land bridge to Asia.
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2. Vertical climate zones
DEFINITION:called tierra caliente, or "hot land;" tierra templada, or "temperate land;" tierra fria, the "cold land;" and tierra helado, or "land of ice," which contains the mountain's perpetual snow line. |
Vertical cliamte zones are in hot areas. |
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3. Conquistador
DEFINITION:a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. |
Another map did the Conquistador good service on his campaign against Honduras
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4. Mestizo
DEFINITION: a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. |
The tendency is for the mestizo who dwells in Indian communities to revert to the Indian type, and it is probable that the larger estimate is nearer the truth.Read more at http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/mestizo#2kkdY3T0OP4PEsC5.99
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5. Syncretism
DEFINITION:the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. |
If it represents a type of syncretism as definite as that known to have existed in the developed gnostic systems of the 2nd century, it is inconceivable that Paul should have passed it by as easily as he did.Read more at http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/syncretism#e0SiKIoOMtYkqweF.99
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6. Megacity
DEFINITION:a very large city, typically one with a population of over ten million people |
Most people in that area are from a megacity. |
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7. Extended family
DEFINITION:a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one household |
My bestfriens is part of a extended family. |
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8. Maquiladora
DEFINITION:a factory in Mexico run by a foreign company and exporting its products to the country of that company. |
Women staff the maquiladoras and the sweatshops that produce the cheap goods of the global economy.
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9. Deforestation
DEFINITION:the action of clearing a wide area of trees. |
Deforestation can harms most animals habitats and homes. |
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10. Isthmus
DEFINITION:a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land |
It was at a later period of his life that he propounded schemes for cutting canals through the isthmus of Suez and the isthmus of Panama.
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11. Archipelago
DEFINITION:a group of islands. |
Its sphere includes Indo-China, much of the Malay Archipelago, Tibet and Mongolia.
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12. Population pressure
DEFINITION: the sum of the factors (as increase in numbers or excessive food consumption) within a population that reduce the ability of an environment to support the population and that therefore tend to result in migration and expansion of range or in extinction or decline of the population. |
Similar population pressures are likely to increase investment in other rich countries.
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13. Patois
DEINITION:the dialect of the common people of a region, differing in various respects from the standard language of the rest of the country. |
The language of her country novels is the genuine patois of middle France rendered in a literary form.
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14. Latifundia
DEFINITION:a large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by slaves. |
He moved to break up latifundia, drawing the ire of landowners.
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15. minifundia
DEFINITON:A small farm or property in Latin America, especially one that is too small to support a single family. |
We cant aford luxurious things because we live ina minifundia. |
