Terms
A canal or pipe that carries fresh water.
Conquistador, Aqueduct, or Diaspora?
Aqueduct
Tropical cyclones or powerful storms that form over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean.
Hurricane
What kind of government is controlled by a single leader, such as in Berria?
Dictatorship
Tourism that focuses on the environment and aims to limit environmental damage.
Ecotourism
In Spanish Colonial America, a person of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry
Mestizo
Artificial island built by the Aztec
Chinampa
The process by which water, ice or wind remove rock and soil.
Erosion
A relationship in which countries rely on one another economically
Interdependence
A symbol derived from a picture that stands for a word, idea, or sound.
Hieroglyphic
Payments from workers outside of a country to family members within it.
Remittance
A bowl-shaped area
Basin
A popular religion in Cuba that combines Catholic and West African beliefs.
Santaria
A large gap in the amount that workers make
Income Inequality
Body of public works, such as roads, bridges, hospitals, that a country needs to support a modern economy.
Infrastructure
In Spanish Colonial America, a person who is born in Spain
Peninsular
A wide gap in access to the internet is called the D****** D*****
Digital Divide
The area from California and New Mexico-given by Mexico to to the United States in 1848
Mexican Cession
A complete ban on trade with a country.
Embargo
A colorful, tropical bird.
Quetzal
The spread of cultural traits
Cultural Diffusion
This type of wall is used to hold back water.
Dike
Armed Rebellion in which the Mexican people fought for political and social reform.
Mexican Revolution
Right granted by the Spanish government to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from American Indians.
Encomienda
"Conqueror" in Spanish; a leader in the Spanish conquests of America, Mexico, and Peru in the sixteenth century.
Conquistador
Movement of people from their homeland to other places.
Diaspora