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| Native American Empires of Latin America |
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| Absolute Location vs. Relative Location |
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| Absolute: global grid, Relative: in relativity to other countries |
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| North American free trade agreement |
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| community of plants and animals that depend upon one another and their surroundings for survival |
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| Dominican Republic- Central America Free Trade Agreement |
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| regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean |
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| Mexico's culture: religion, sport, significant events |
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| Roman Catholic, Bullfighting, soccer, baseball, jai alai, fiestas |
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| Human- environment interaction |
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| the study of the interrelationship between people and their physical environment |
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| result of a process by which dry areas develop on the leeward side of mountain ranges |
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| gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect |
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| the relationship between elevation of a place and its temperature |
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| movement of plants, animals, and infectious diseases between Europe and The Americas |
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| half of a sphere or globe, as in Earth's Northern and Southern Hemisphere's |
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| thick middle layer of the Earth's interior structure, consisting of dense, hot rock |
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| the science of map making |
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| fertile grassland in inland areas of Colombia and Venezuela |
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| a crack or break in the Earth's crust |
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| Spanish for "high plain," a region in Peru and Bolivia encircled by the Andes peaks |
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| the watery areas of the earth, including oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water |
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| Spanish term for "cold land"; the highest altitude zone of Latin American highlands climates |
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| cold or warm stream of seawater that flows in the oceans, generally in a circular pattern |
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| top layer of a rain forest, where the tops of tall trees form a continuous layer of leaves |
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| the movement of people from place to place |
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| electrical energy generated by falling water |
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| haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical fumes from automobile exhausts and other pollution sources |
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| an economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned,and production and prices are determined by supply and demand |
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| a city with more than 10 million people |
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| a layer of gases that surrounds the Earth |
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| local form of a language used in a particular place or by a certain group |
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| system of resource management in which decisions about production and distribution of goods and services are made by central authority |
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| the movement of people from rural areas to cities |
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| molten rock that is pushed up from Earth's mantle |
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| dialects that blend elements of indigenous, European, African, and Asian languages |
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| way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs |
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| in Mexico, a manufacturing plant set up by a foreign firm |
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| the exact position of a place on the Earth's surface |
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| technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area |
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| the average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer |
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| farmworker; generlly, people who live and work in rural areas |
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| pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another |
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| country in the process of becoming industrialized |
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| the spread of new knowledge and skills from one culture to another |
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| the loss or destruction of forests, mainly for logging or farming |
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| shape of the Earth's physical features |
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| group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or a combination of such characteristics |
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