Exam 4 | GEOG 1001 - HUMN GEOG: AMER EURP, Quizzes of Geography

Download Exam 4 | GEOG 1001 - HUMN GEOG: AMER EURP and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 The Caribbean DEFINITION 1 The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. TERM 2 Shifting cultivation DEFINITION 2 Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned. TERM 3 Cash crops DEFINITION 3 In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for profit. TERM 4 Subsistence agriculture DEFINITION 4 Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which farmers focus on growing enough food to feed their families. TERM 5 Slavery DEFINITION 5 Slavery is a system in which people are the property of others. TERM 6 Altitudinal zonation DEFINITION 6 Altitudinal zonation in mountainous regions describes the natural layering of ecosystems that occurs at distinct altitudes due to varying environmental conditions. TERM 7 Incas DEFINITION 7 The Inca civilization (or Inka civilization) began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac founded the Kingdom of Cuzco around 1200. Under the leadership of the descendants of Manco Capac, the Inca state grew to absorb other Andean communities. TERM 8 Rural-to-urban migration DEFINITION 8 The flow of internal migrants from rural areas to cities that began in the 1950s and intensified in the 1960s and 1970s. TERM 9 2 Tone DEFINITION 9 2 Tone (or Two Tone) is a music genre created in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae, and New Wave. TERM 10 Maquiladora DEFINITION 10 A maquiladora () or maquila () is a concept often referred to an operation that involves manufacturing in a country that is not the client's and as such has an interesting duty or tariff treatment. TERM 21 Isolated proximity DEFINITION 21 A concept that explores the contradictory position of the Caribbean states, which are physically close to North America and economicall dependent upon that region. At the same time, Caribbean isolation fosters strong loyalties to locality and limited economic opportunity TERM 22 Amazon basin DEFINITION 22 The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. TERM 23 Primate city DEFINITION 23 A primate city is the leading city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. TERM 24 Aztecs DEFINITION 24 The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology. TERM 25 NAFTA DEFINITION 25 The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. TERM 26 Ska DEFINITION 26 Ska (, Jamaican ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. TERM 27 Mestizos DEFINITION 27 Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America for people of mixed European and Amerindian heritage or descent. TERM 28 Transnational migration DEFINITION 28 Complex social and economic linkages that form b/w home and host countries through international migration. Unlike earlier generations of migrants, 21st century immigrants can maintain more enduring and complex ties to their home countries as a result of technological advances. TERM 29 Mainland DEFINITION 29 Mainland is a name given to a large landmass in a region (as contrasted with a nearby island or islands), or to the largest of a group of islands in an archipelago. TERM 30 rimland DEFINITION 30 Rimland is a concept championed by Nicholas John Spykman to describe the maritime fringe of a country or continent; in particular, the densely populated western, southern, and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent. TERM 31 Maroon societies DEFINITION 31 runaway slaves who established communities rich in African traditions throughout the Caribbean and Brazil. TERM 32 Remittances DEFINITION 32 A remittance is a transfer of money by a foreign worker to his or her home country. TERM 33 Coyotes DEFINITION 33 ? TERM 34 Underemployment DEFINITION 34 In economics, the term underemployment has three different distinct meanings and applications. TERM 35 Greater Antilles DEFINITION 35 The Greater Antilles are one of three island groups in the Caribbean. TERM 46 Columbian exchange DEFINITION 46 The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of the animals, plants, culture and human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Old World to New World). TERM 47 Neoliberal policies DEFINITION 47 Economic policies widely adopted in the 1990s that stress privatization, export production, and few restrictions on imports. TERM 48 Eco-tourism DEFINITION 48 Ecotourism (also known as ecological tourism) is responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strives to be low impact and (often) small scale. TERM 49 Capital leakage DEFINITION 49 The gap b/w the gross receipts an industry (such as tourism) brings into a developing are and the amount of capital retained. TERM 50 Lesser Antilles DEFINITION 50 The Lesser Antilles, also known as the Caribbees, are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Greater Antilles form the West Indies. TERM 51 Crops brought from American Indians DEFINITION 51 Gold & silver (made sp & port dominant powers) Maize, squash, peppers, vanilla, pineapples, avocados, tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, chocolate TERM 52 Europeans brought DEFINITION 52 Diseases, Catholicism, cows, horses, chickens, goats, pigs, wheat, rice, sugarcane, coffee, bananas