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| plateau | An area of high flat land |
| peninsula | A strip of land that juts out into the ocean |
| irrigation | The watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers |
| sinkhole | A hole formed when limestone is dissolved, causing the land above to collapse |
| hacienda | A large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or a cattle ranch |
| land redistribution | A policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none |
| ejido | Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community |
| subsistence farming | Farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or village |
| latifundio | A large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company |
| cash crop | A farm crop grown for sale and profit |
| migrant worker | A worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico |
| maquiladora | A factory in Mexico, along the U.S. border, that assembles goods for export |
| isthmus | A narrow strip of land having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of land |
| guerrilla | A member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army; relating to a form of warfare carried on by such an independent armed force |
| archipelago | A group of islands |
| coral island | An island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment piling on top of them |
| windward | Facing the wind |
| leeward | Facing away from the wind |
