Central America

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Chapter 9

• Central America
• And
• Caribbean Islands

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Land Forms

• Archipelago
• 1 a group of islands or peninsulas

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Natural Resource

• Bauxite
• 1 an impure mixture of earthy hydrous
• aluminum oxides and hydroxides
• that is the principal source of aluminum

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Vegetation

• Cloud Forest
• 1 a high elevation, very wet tropical
• forest, where low clouds
• are common

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Physical Geography

• Tectonics and Volcanoes
• Colliding plates cause
• tectonic activity. The Coco plate collides and
  dives
• under the Caribbean plate and off
• Central Americas western coast.

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Physical Geography

• Reef composition.
• Off of the Bahamas
• it has 700 islands and thousands of reefs

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Central America and Caribbean Islands
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Central America and Caribbean Islands
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Central America

• Section 2

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Cacao

• A small tree on which cocoa beans grow

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Dictators

• People who rule a country with
• complete control

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cardamom

• A spice used in Asian food

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Civil War

• A conflict between two or more
• groups within a country

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ecotourism

• The practice of using an areas environment to
  attract tourist

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The Caribbean Islands

• Section 3

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Santeria

• A religion with origins in Cuba, that mixes
• West African religions and traditions
• with those of Roman Catholicism

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calypso

• A type of music that origins in Trinidad and
  Tobago

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Reggae

• A type of music that origins in Jamaica

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merengue

• The national music and dance of the Dominican
  Republic

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• Sergio Vargas singing merengue style music

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guerrilla

• An armed person who takes part in irregular such
  as raids

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refugees

• People who flee to another country usually
• For economic or political

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cooperatives

• Organizations owned by their members and operated
  for their mutual benefit

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plantains

• A type of banana used in cooking

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commonwealth

• A self governing territory associated with
  another country

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