WG Unit 3 Vocabulary

The large-scale process of clearing forests

• Deforestation

• Conservation

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Capitalism

Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

• Deforestation

• Conservation

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Capitalism

An economic system based upon principles of free enterprise and the ownership of private property

• Globalization

• Representative Democracy

• Capitalism

• NAFTA

The Spanish or Portuguese speaking region south of the United States

• Columbian Exchange

• The Middle East

• Colonialism

• Latin America

The basic physical structures and facilities needed for a society to function

• Infrastructure

• Innovation

• Political Stability

• NAFTA

A measurement of a country’s wealth based upon the average economic productivity of its citizens

• HDI

• GDP Per Capita

• Standard of Living

• Capitalism

A system of government in which citizens elect representatives to make and enforce laws

• Capitalism

• Colonialism

• Representative Democracy

• Totalitarian Dictatorship

A trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico

• Globalization

• Latin America

• Political Stability

• NAFTA

The diffusion of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World

• Columbian Exchange

• Globalization

• Colonialism

• Cultural Diffusion

A farming practice in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Slash and Burn Agriculture

• Commercial Agriculture

• Corporate Agriculture