| A | B |
|---|
| malnutrition | poor nutrition |
| futbol | soccer |
| develping country | countries in process of becoming industrialized |
| export | sent to other countries |
| cash crop | crop produced to sell or trade |
| campesinos | people who live and work in rural areas |
| latifundia | large estates owned by familes or corporations |
| minifundia | small farms that produce food cheifly for famiy use |
| service industry | enterprises such as banking that provide services rather than goods |
| maquilardora | manufacturing plants set up by foreign firms |
| ecosystem | complex variety of life in delicately balanced environment |
| deforestation | cutting down of trees |
| slash and burn farming | cut down all plants and strip any trees of bark |
| reforestation | planting of trees on lands they have stripped |
| escarpment | a slope or long cliff b/t a higher and lower surface |
| llanos | large fertile plains areas |
| pampas | grassy, treeless plains of Argentina and Uraguay |
| hydroelectric power | energy of water generating electricity |
| tierra caliente | (hot country) lowest zone of a highland climate near equator |
| tierra templada | (temperate country) middle zone coffee-chief crop |
| tierra fria | cold country highest zone |
| canopy | covering |
| mestizos | people of mixed native american/european descent |
| dialects | forms of a language peculiar to a particular place or group |
| primate city | cities with a concentrated urban population and that dominate the population |
| conquistadors | conquerors |
| quipu | a rope with knotted cords used to keep records and send messages |
| viceroys | people the spanish monarch appointed to make sure spanish law was enforced |
| caudillo | strong men |
