Geography Unit 3 - Latin America Vocabulary (ch8-10)

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Across
  1. 3. - wall painting
  2. 5. crop - farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family.
  3. 7. - traditional handball-type game popular with Mexicans and Cubans.
  4. 11. - trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada, the US, & Mexico.
  5. 12. - Spanish term for “temperate land”; the middle altitude zone of Latin American highlands climates.
  6. 13. - farm workers; generally, people who live and work in rural areas.
  7. 16. - technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area.
  8. 20. - Spanish term for “soccer”.
  9. 21. - the cowhands of Argentina and Uruguay.
  10. 22. - cities with more than 10 million people.
  11. 23. - top layer of the rainforest, where the tops of tall trees form a continuous layer of leaves.
  12. 24. - Spanish term for “conqueror”; referring to soldiers who conquered Native Americans in Latin America.
  13. 26. - Spanish term for “hot land”; the lowest altitude zone of Latin American highlands climates.
  14. 27. - makeshift communities on the edges of cities.
  15. 28. - knotted cords of various lengths and colors used by the Inca to keep financial records.
  16. 32. - household made up of several generations of family members.
  17. 33. - representative of the Spanish monarchs appointed to enforce laws in colonial Latin America.
  18. 34. - a Latin American political leader from the late 1800s on, often a military dictator.
  19. 35. - replanting young trees or seeds on lands where trees have been cut or destroyed.
  20. 36. - steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower land surface.
  21. 39. - parallel chains or ranges of mountains.
  22. 40. - in Latin America, large agricultural estates owned by families or corporations.
  23. 42. - faulty or inadequate nutrition.
  24. 43. - in Latin America, small farms that produce food chiefly for family use.
  25. 44. - commodities sent from one country to another for purposes of trade.
Down
  1. 1. - the movement of people from rural areas into cities.
  2. 2. - grassy, treeless plains of southern South America.
  3. 3. - in Mexico, manufacturing plants set up by foreign firms.
  4. 4. - floating farming islands made by the Aztecs.
  5. 6. - dialects that blend elements of indigenous, European, African, and Asian languages.
  6. 8. - electrical energy generated by falling water.
  7. 9. - local form of a language used in a particular place or by a certain group.
  8. 10. - fertile plains in inland areas of Colombia and Venezuela.
  9. 14. - business that provides a service instead of making goods.
  10. 15. - Spanish for “high plain,” a region in Peru and Bolivia encircled by the Andes Mountains.
  11. 17. - traditional farming method in which all trees and plants in an area are cut and burned to add nutrients to the soil.
  12. 18. country - country in the process of becoming industrialized.
  13. 19. - a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith.
  14. 25. - an area where the tide meets a river current.
  15. 29. - native to a place.
  16. 30. - a city that dominates a country’s economy, culture, and government and in which population is concentrated; usually the capital.
  17. 31. - the loss or destruction of forests, mainly for logging or farming.
  18. 37. - Spanish term for “cold land”; the highest altitude zone of Latin American highlands climates.
  19. 38. - picture writing carved in stone.
  20. 41. - picture or design made with small pieces of colored stone, glass, shell, or tile.