Central America Vocabulary

A worker skilled in making products or art by hand

• immigrant

• artisan

• professional

• worker

money, especially paper money Ex.dollars, pesos

• euro

• peso

• currency

• dollar

a form of government where the people have the right to vote and elect their government leaders

• democracy

• republic

• monarchy

• socialist

a person/leader of a country who has complete control over it

• president

• representative

• king

• dictator

the travel to a natural habitat in a way that does not damage it

• tourism

• ecotourism

• vacation excursion

• traveling

a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry

• Spanish

• American

• Mexican

• Mestizo

a man-made canal in Central America that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean

• Rio Grande

• River

• Gulf of Mexico

• Panama Canal

The economic state of being poor: having very little money

• poverty

• obesity

• literacy

• wealthy

a broadleaf-tree region in a tropical climate

• Jungle

• Rain-forest

• Forest

• Swamp

a farm that raises crops only for the family to survive on; crops are not for sale

• garden

• farmland

• plantation

• Subsistence farming