Physical Geography
An organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the resources & ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.
What is sustainable development?
A country has a primate city 3 to 4 times larger than any other city in the country. ex's: Mexico City, Lima.
What is Urban Primacy?
What lanunge is spoken by two-thirds of Latin Americans?
What is Spanish?
Officially formed in 1948, relating to latin america territorial issues, composed of the 35 independent states of the Americas
What is the Organization of the American States (OAS)?
Policy reforms that emphasized privatization, direct foreign investment, and free trade, state-run national industries were dropped for this
What is neoliberalism?
Tropical ecosystems of the Western hemisphere
Peasants farming small plots for their own use, can lead to permanent or shifting cultivation.
What is Minifundia?
An exchange of people, dieases, plants, and animals between the Americas and Europe/Africa.
What is Columbian Exhange?
Pope divided Atlantic world in half: eastern half including African continent was given to Portugal, western half including most of Americas was given to Spain.
What is Treaty of Tordesillas?
The Process of moving service jobs (data entry, programming), to cheaper locations , uruguay is a leader in in Latin American outsourcing operations.
What is outsourcing?
Relationship between cooler temperatures at higher elevations and changes in vegetation
What is altitudinal zonation?
People of mixed European and Indian ancestry.
What is Mestizo?
Blends of different belief systems, enabled animist practices to be included in Christian worship in Latin America.
What is syncretic religion?
Aims to increase trade and reduce tariffs among member countries, the U.S and 5 central american countries signed this
What is Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)?
The process of a country adopting the U.S dollar as its official currency.
What is Dollarization?
Conversion of a tropical forest into a pasture, contributed to deforestation
What is grassification?
Urban poor live in self-built housing on a land that does not belong to them.
What is Squatter Settlement?
What is Latian America's sport?
Soccer
Economic and political strategies by which powerful states indirectly(and sometimes directly)extend their influence over other, weaker state.
What is Neocolonialism?
The conditional cash transfer program, reduces extreme poverty, families receive a monthly check from state but have to keep kids on school and health checkups.
What is Bolsa Familia?