Chapter 2 Vocabulary
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| Indigenous | show 🗑
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| show | General term for a linear zone that parallels a political boundary. The most dynamic of these areas, such as those lining the U.S.-Mexico border, are marked by significant cultural and economic interaction across the boundary that separates them.
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| show | The term given to modern industrial plants in Mexico’s U.S. border zone. These foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials, and then export finished manufactures, mainly to the United States. Import duties are disappearing —
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| Maquiladoras Cont. | show 🗑
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| show | A narrow isthmian link between two large landmasses. They are temporary features—at least when measured in geologic time—subject to appearance and disappearance as the land or sea level rises and falls.
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| show | — often affecting the Lesser Antilles between Antigua and the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), Jamaica, Cuba, southernmost Florida, Mexico’s Yucatán, and the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Altitudinal Zonation | show 🗑
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| Tropical Deforestation | show 🗑
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| show | Heartland, source area, or innovation center; place of origin of a major culture.
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| show | Literally, a large estate in a Spanish-speaking country. Sometimes equated with the plantation, but there are important differences between these two types of agricultural enterprise.
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| show | A large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Almost all plantations were established within the tropics; in recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holdings or reorganized as cooperatives.
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| show | The degree of direct linkage between a particular location and other locations within a regional, national, or global transportation network.
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| show | The additional disadvantages faced by lower-income island-states because of their often small territorial size and populations as well as overland inaccessibility. Limited resources require expensive importing of many goods and services; the cost of —
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| show | — government operations per capita are higher; and local production is unable to benefit from economies of scale.
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| Economies of Scale | show 🗑
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| show | Cultural modification resulting from intercultural borrowing. In cultural geography, the term refers to the change that occurs in the culture of indigenous peoples when contact is made with a society that is technologically superior.
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| Ejidos | show 🗑
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| show | A much higher than usual, world-class geographic concentration of natural plant and/or animal species. Tropical rainforest environments have dominated, but their recent ravaging by deforestation has had catastrophic results.
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| show | Money earned by emigrants that is sent back to family and friends in their home country, mostly in cash; forms an important part of the economy in poorer countries.
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| show | One that smoothly integrates different surface transportation modes. The shipping of cargo containers depends on fast and efficient transfers: they can be stacked on the decks and in the holds of ships as well as attaching to flatbed railcars and —
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| Intermodal Transport System Cont. | show 🗑
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