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68 Cards in this Set
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La Frontera
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The Border
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OTM
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Other than Mexicans crossing the border
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Top 4 OTMs?
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El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil
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Middle America vs. Central America
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Middle America is Central America and the Caribbean. Central America is Central America?
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What Countries Include Central America
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Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
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Only country not in the tropics?
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Uruguay
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Regions of Mexico
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Frontera: Border
Arid Northwest: Near Border Baja: Peninsula Central Mesa: Middle Mex Yucatan: You know baby D.F.: Mexico City |
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Middle American: Main Land
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Essentially Mexico and Central America
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Middle America: Rimland
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Coastland (east coast of central america) and Island Spanoilia
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Isthmus
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small strip of land
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Greater Antilles
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Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic
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Lesser Antilles
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Small Islands East of Hispaniola and North of SA
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Windward Islands
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South Islands of Lesser Antilles
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Leeward Islands
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North Islands of Lesser Antilles
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Regions of SA
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Caribbean: Duh
Guianas: Guiana, French Guiana and Surinam Andean Regions: West coast where the andeas are Amazonia:Middle of SA mostly Brazil Southern Cone: Most of Argentina |
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Rio Grande vs Rio Bravo
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Rio Bravo, english. Rio Grande, spanish.
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Why so many volcanoes?
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Almost all countries of Latin America are located on fault lines.
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Ring of Fire
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Latin America makes up the South East corner of the ring of fire.
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Montserrat
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City that got fucked up by volcanoes
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Plates
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Caribbean Plate: Duh
Cocos Plate: SW of Cen Amer Nazca Plate: West of NA South American Plate: SA and East Pacific Plate:Mostly Effects Mexico |
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o Easterlies:
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Along Equator
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o Westerlies:
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Mid-Latitudes
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North Atlantic Gyre
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wind cycle in the north part of the atlantic
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what currents and streams are in the NA gyre?
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Gulf Stream, Canary Current and North Equatorial Current
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Gulf Stream
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Florida to europe
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Canary current
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europe to africa
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north equatorial current
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africa to floriday
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horse latitude
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30 degrees north and south, little temperature variation so less winds
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what makes winds go crazy
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temperature change
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doldrums
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around the equator, little temp changes, little wind
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ITCZ
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In between equator and mid lats (horse latitudes and doldrums). Big temp changes so big changes to weather
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how do hurricanes form?
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Temp and Pressure from mid lats and equator collide over water and that brings moisture into the air and then it gets crazay
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tropical wave
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disorganized winds
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tropical depression
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circular but no eye
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tropical storm
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circular and organized
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hurricane
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circular, organized, eye then varying degrees of wind speeds.
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Why does el nino happen?
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Because winds usually going easterly at the equator actually change direction because warm temperatures in the water and air shift.
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which winds change in the event of an el nino or la nina?
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humboldt peruvian currents
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difference between el nino and la nina?
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la nina is actually when ti is cool and affects westwardly
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el nino or la nina now?
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la nino because there are scientists?
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Tropical Rainforest
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ton of rain, huge canopy, soils very fragile, in the tropics
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tropical savanah
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decent amount of rain, seasons based on rain, no canopy, huge deforestation beceause its easier to get to and almost like the everglades in llanos venezuela
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arid desert
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atacama desert (n. chile) and sonoran desert (n. mexico). Dry because of rain shadows
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arid steppe
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patagonia, gran chaco and sertao. edge of deserts
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humid subtropical
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argentina especially pampas. similar to us "heartland" for growing food
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mediterranean
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mid chile. 40 degrees south. hot summers rainy winters.
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marine west coast
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a lot of rain, south of 40 degrees lat similar to paris/seattle
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highland alps
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the andes. height of this region goes snowline, tierra helada, tierra fria, tierra templada, and then tierra caliente
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tierra helada foods
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potatoes, pigs, sheep
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tierra fria foods
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wheat, barley, potatoes, sheep
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tierra templada,
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coffee maize, coca, tomatoes
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tierra caliente
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sugar, bananas, dumb
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Which country has the most coffee?
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brazil
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Name the three time periods and dates
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precolombian: before 1492
Colonial Period: 1492-1532 Post Colonial: After 1532 |
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Beringia
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Peoples coming across the bering straith.
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Native Origin Theories
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Mother earth created animals or something
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Pre-Siberian American Aborigines Theory
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Came in boats
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o Olmec
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San Lorenzo in Veracruz Mex
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o Maya:
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Chichen Itza, Tulum, Tikal, Copan
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o Teotihuacán:
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Teotihuacán
Central Mexico |
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Zapotec:
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Monte Albán
Oaxaca Mexico |
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o Teotihuacán:
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Teotihuacán
Central Mexico |
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AZtec
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Tenochtitlan Central Mexico
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Mogollon
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AZ NM TX
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Maya:
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Chichen Itza, Tulum, Tikal, Copan
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Pre-Siberian American Aborigines Theory
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Came in boats
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o Teotihuacán:
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Teotihuacán
Central Mexico |
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o Olmec
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San Lorenzo in Veracruz Mex
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