Economics
The practice of protecting the environment to make money from people traveling to visit natural beautiful places.
What is ecotourism
A narrow strip of land with sea on either side forming a link between two larger areas of land.
What is Isthmus?
The region of North America, South America, and the Caribbean where Spanish and Portuguese are the most spoken languages.
What is Latin America?
Groups of people who are descended from the people who occupied a region prior to colonization.
What is Indigenous peoples?
A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
What is enlightenment?
The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
A man-made waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is Panama Canal?
A phenomenon of warming ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that causes increased rains and flooding.
What is El nino?
Latin Americans with ancestors of both indigenous and European descent.
What is Mestizo?
A policy of extending a country’s power and influence into other countries.
What is imperialism?
An association of manufacturers or suppliers who work together to restrict competition and maintain high prices.
What is a cartel?
structural obstacles in natural that prevent or block mobility (moving around in the environment) or access.
What is physical barriers?
The purposeful clearing of forested land.
What is deforestation?
A factory that does not have to pay the taxes that normally apply to goods leaving and entering the country.
What is Maquiladora?
A policy of getting political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is colonialism?
A system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals
What is mercantilism?
A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill.
What is a mountain?
Strong winds formed by the northeast trade winds combining with the warm air of the Caribbean being pushed through the mountainous terrain of Central America, forming very strong winds.
What is Papagayo jets?
The use of a position of power or trust for personal gain
What is corruption?
Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th Century
What is Conquistador?
Farming that is intended to protect the environment, expand the Earth's natural resource base, and maintain and improve soil fertility
What is sustainable development
It covers much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Colombia, Peru and other South American countries, is the world’s largest tropical rainforest
What is Amazon forest
Farming technique in which wild or forested land is clear cut and any remaining vegetation is burned.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
The way that society is organized including who is rich and who is poor and how people interact with each other.
What is social structure?
The interchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492
What is columbian exchange?