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A narrow neck of land that acts as a bridge to connect two larger bodies of land.
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What is an Isthmus?
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Ex. The Isthmus of Panama where the Panama Canal was constructed.
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The original inhabitants of a country.
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What is Indigenous?
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Ex. The Native Americans were Indiginous to North America. The Inuit/Eskimo were indigenous to Alaska and the Northwest Territories.
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Large plains in the Amazon River Basin in Argentina which are the result of erosion steadily smoothing the lands's surface over millions of years.
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What is the Pampas?
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Plains of Argentina & surrounding areas that are wide and grassy
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The plains of southern Columbia and Venezuela made by steady erosion causing smoothing of the land surface over millions of years.
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What is the Llanos (YAHN-ohz)?
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The largest plains on the Amazon River Basin.
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A plant grown as a cash crop on Sea-Island plantations in the south used to make blue dye for clothing.
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What is Indigo?
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The dye used in making blue-jeans.
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Middle or South American people with both Native American and European Ancestry.
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What is a Mestizo?
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Descendants of Native Americans (reddish brown) & Europeans(white) ancestors.
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The descendants of European plantation colonists and Africans.
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What are Mulattos?
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European (white) and African (black) descendants from Middle and South America.
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A small tree on which the cocoa bean grows which is ground to make chocolate powder used in cooking and drinks.
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What is Cocoa?
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Found in Tropical climates only and whose powder is mixed with sugar to make chocolate.
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Large family-owned estates for growning crops introduced by the Spanish. A symbol of social status.
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What is a Hacienda?
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Similar to Share-cropping in the U.S.A.
Peasants lived on the estate and had small crops to grow their own food while working the owner's land as well. |
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Industries that manufacture cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, or indigo or goods such as automobiles, trucks, or railroad cars which require a large work force to produce.
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What is Labor-Intensive?
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Plantation and factory workers face a life of hard work with little reward of a better job with less manual labor.
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The breaking-up of large landholdings and allowing for small farmers to own their own land giving them a vested interest in their own future.
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What is Land Reform?
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This reform broke up the land monopolies in Mexico by wealthy families after 1910 converting from the poverty of share-cropping to small scale subsistence farming.
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A large system of mountain ranges located along the Pacific Coast of Central and South America.
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What are the Andes Mountains?
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Extend down the western coast of South America from the Sierra Madre of C.America
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A large, grassy, treeless area in South America used for grazing and farming.
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What are the Llanos?
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plains of upper South America
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A Savannah that has flat terrain and moderate rainfall, which make it suitable for farming.
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What are the Cerrado?
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A river mainly in Venezuela and part of South America's northernmost river system.
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What is the Orinoco?
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Second longest river in the world, running about 4000 miles from west to east, and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean,
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What is the Amazon?
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A river in Central and South America and one of three major river systems originating in the highlands of southern Brazil & traveling 3000 miles southwest.
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What is the Parana?
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A forest region located in the tropical zone with a heavy concentration of different species of broadleaf trees.
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What is the Rainforest?
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An ancient technique for growing crops on hillsides/mountain slopes, using step-like horizontal fields cut into slopes.
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What is Terraced Farming?
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A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region.
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What are Push Factors?
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A factor that draws/attracts people to another location.
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What are Pull Factors?
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The basic supports needed to keep an economy going, including power, communities, transportation, water, sanitation, & education systems.
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What is Infrastructure?
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