United States
crops grown mainly for sale to other colonies or countries
What is a cash crop?
What is precipitation?
system of government in which the power of the king or queen is limited by the constitution
What is a constitutional monarchy?
depressions or sunken areas
What is a sinkhole?
economic market in which businesses operate with few governmental restrictions
What is a free market?
very large farms
What are plantations?
soil that never thaws
What is permafrost?
place where people from different areas retain their cultural identity
What is a cultural mosaic?
height above sea level
What is altitude?
money sent to another place
What is remittance?
people whose beliefs differed from the official religion in their country
What are dissenters?
an area with limited vegetation, such as moss and shrubs
What is a tundra?
society in which distinct cultural, ethnic, and racial groups are encouraged to maintain their own identities and cultures
What is a plural society?
bring water to land
What is irrigate?
political party that dominated Mexico's government for much of the 1900s
What is the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)?
a movement for equality
What is the civil rights movement?
an area where waters mix and stir up nutrients from the ocean floor
What is a mixing zone?
power generated by water running through channels in dams
What is hydroelectric power?
Mexican political party that took power in the 2000 presidential election
What is the National Action Party (PAN)?
the idea that the country should expand across the continent
What is Manifest Destiny?