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| Greater antilles islands (4) |
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Puerto Rico
Hispanola
Jamaica
Cuba |
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| 7000 islands, same landmass |
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| 4 plates in middle america |
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North American
Cocos
Carribean
Pacific |
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| Long term weather effects |
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| Short term environmental conditions |
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| Clouds pushed over mountains |
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| sun heats up clouds, which build up and combine |
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| cold fronts push warm air up, which condense the clouds |
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| Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) |
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| Belt of low pressure air that migrates north and south throughout the year, bringing heavy rains |
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Semi-arid soils, beneath grasslands
high organic content |
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semiarid to humid soils, hardwood forests and coastal lowlands
young but fertile |
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| Humid soils, highly weathered, low nutrients |
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| part of nature, occur naturally |
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| occur due to human establishments where natural hazards exist |
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| Earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, avalanches |
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| hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, ice, and snow |
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| river floods, coastal floods, drought |
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| Epidemic diseases, wildfires |
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| simple volcano from single vent of lava |
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| Built from alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash, cinders, and blocks, huge mountains |
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| Lake volcanoes, made of several vents or lake of lava |
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| german climatologist who developed the climate system |
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| Tropical climate- mean temps >18 c |
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Cold climate warmest month >10 c
snowy |
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| sufficient precipitation in all months |
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| monsoon climate (1 dry month near winter solstice) |
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| Tropical rainforest vegetation |
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selva
found in east-central and southern mexico |
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| Sclerophyllous vegetation |
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(scrub and chaparral)
found in northern baja peninsula
generally a transition to drier areas |
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Thorny forests and woodlands
found along pacific coast of mexico and central america |
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| Desert and shrub vegetation |
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| vegetation found in N. mexico |
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| liquid lava emmited from central vent |
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very liquid lava; flows very widespread
emmited from fractures |
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very viscous lava, relatively small
can be explosive
comonly occurs adjactent to craters of composite volcanoes |
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31 states
Felipe Calderon
Sept 16th 1824
Upper middle income
moderate level of income inequality |
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| Measures income inequality |
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cacao plant
theobroma
called "xocolatl"-BITTER WATER |
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maguey "blue agave"
pulque |
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1969 El Salvador vs Honduras
Riots at soccer game
Salvador immigrants into honduras |
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Gatun Dam
Gaillard Cut
Miraflores Locks |
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Aruba, Bonaire, Curacoa
Trinidad and Tobago |
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Jamaica
egg carton limestone pattern |
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Sevis Lwa- service to spirits
African/christian
Haiti |
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low lying coral limestone islands
ABC islands |
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UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Internal Waters
Territorial waters
Contiguous
Exclusize economic zone
International |
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Olmecs
Zapotecs
Teotihuacan |
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1800 BC
building 200-800BC
Collapse 900 AD |
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3 classes
Macehualli- peasants
Pochteca- Merchants
Pilli- Nobels |
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Aztec Slaves
Large portion of population |
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Tenochtitlan-largest
Texcoco
Tlacopan-smallest |
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| shed blood on bones of dead |
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| destroyed by hurricane (monkeys) |
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| destroyed by rain of fire |
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present
earthquake will destroy world |
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