Chapter 4 Central America Vocab

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Tropical fish and marine life in coral reefs.

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Biodiversity

Front

Spreading of people from one place to many others.

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Diaspora

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Governments controlled by a single leader

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Dictatorship

Front

Clearing a large number of trees.

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Deforestation

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Tourism focused on the environment and minimizing impact.

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Ecotourism

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Trade winds create powerful rain storms over the tropical Atlantic.

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Hurricane

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Group of people in a new territory linked to a distant state.

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Colony

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Huge farms and ranches by Spanish landowners.

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Hacienda

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A small loan for poor farmers to start farms.

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Microcredit

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A strip of land with water on both sides connecting two larger land masses.

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Isthmus