Ch. 7 Vocabulary

the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

• Biodiversity

• Cash crop

• Columbian Exchange

• Selvas

a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

• Eco-tourism

• Biodiversity

• Columbian Exchange

• Cash crop

Free-Trade zone

• an area where trade barriers between countries are relaxed or lowered

• everything is free

• a zone where trade is free in between states

• there is no such thing

a large farm

• ranch

• southern crop

• plantation

• rancherro

caudillos

• the president of latin america

• an old type farmhouse

• a pueblo

• a person who often ruled a Latin American country as a dictator and was generally a high-ranking military officer or a rich man

guerilla

• a monkey

• a member of a small defensive force of irregular soldiers

• a soldier in the countries army

• a type of animal that lives in the jungle

reforestation

• destroying trees to make room for cities

• painting the buildings to look like a forest

• planting young trees or seeds on lands where trees have been cut or destroyed