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isthmus
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a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.
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mudslide |
a mass of mud and other earthy material that is falling or has fallen down a hillside or other slope.
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trade winds |
a wind blowing steadily toward the equator from the northeast in the northern hemisphere or the southeast in the southern hemisphere, especially at sea. Two belts of trade winds encircle the earth, blowing from the tropical high-pressure belts to the low-pressure zone at the equator.
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Hurricane
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a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.a wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale (equal to or exceeding 64 knots or 74 mph).
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Cloud Forests
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a moist tropical or subtropical forest that is characterized by persistent low-level cloud.
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bauxite
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an amorphous clayey rock that is the chief commercial ore of aluminum. It consists largely of hydrated alumina with variable proportions of iron oxides.
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Viceroy
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a migratory orange and black butterfly that closely resembles the monarch but is typically somewhat smaller. The caterpillar feeds on willow leaves, and the adult mimics the unpalatable monarch.
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encomienda |
a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
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Caribbean Natives
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Formerly known as Island Caribs, or just Caribs, the Kalinago are an indigenouspeople of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. They may have descended from the Mainland Caribs (Kalina) of South America, but they spoke an unrelated language known as Island Carib.
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Reasons for the Mayan Civilization decline
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In archaeology, the classic Maya collapse refers to the decline of Maya civilizationand abandonment of Maya cities in the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 8th and 9th centuries, at the end of the Classic Maya Period. PreclassicMaya experienced a similar collapse in the 2nd century.
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