Latin America Physical, Political and Vocab Study Guide

A structure that carries water over long distances

A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory

Spanish colonists formed large, self-sufficient farming estates known as these

A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere

a Latin American Indian farmer or farm laborer

The term given to zones in northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market. The low-wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods.

A person who travels from farm to farm to pick fruits and vegetables

A large area of flat land elevated high above sea level

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas

The limestone skeleton of a tiny sea animal

A stream or river that flows into a larger river

(n.) difference, variety; a condition of having many different types of forms

Maize

An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

Members of an irregular military force operating in small bands behind enemy lines

Lock, canal, stretch of water enclosed by gates, one at each end, built into a canal or river for the purpose of raising or lowering a vessel from one water level to another

Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States, it opened in 1915.

A cosmopolitan place or society is full of people from many different countries and cultures.

extensive lowland plains of South America extending across east-central Argentina from the Atlantic Ocean and often regarded as including Uruguay and the southern tip of Brazil

Argentine Cowboys

A group of seven countries located south of Mexico and north of South America

A mountain chain of western South America

Mexica peoples migrated into Central Mexico probably in about the 1100s

a group of Native Americans originally from a village south of Cuzco, Peru.

A Native American people, living in what is now Mexico and northern Central America, who had a flourishing civilization from before the birth of Jesus until around 1600, when they were conquered by the Spanish. They are known for their astronomical observations, accurate calendars sophisticated hieroglyphics, and pyramids.

A settler with no legal title to the property.