Geography 10

• latifundia are highly mechanized operations that yield high returns for investments in labor
• minifundia are small plots of land intensively farmed bu campesinos to feed their families
• cash corps are agriculturas corps that are planted for the purpose of selling on market or for export to make profit
• service industries are baking, which provide serv9ces rather than goods
• maquiladoras benefit forgein corporations by allowing them to hire low cast labor and to produce duty free exports
• north American free trade agreement (NAFTA) - 1994 - US, Canada, Mexico. established a free trade zone in the north american regio, lifted tariffs on the majority of good produced by the signed nations
• sustainable development technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
• deforestation: the action of clearing or destruction a wide area of trees
• slash-and-burn agriculture: clearing land for farming, then burning the land to return it to its natural state. once they are dried out they are burned and the ashes put nutrients into the soil
• reforestation: the process of replanting an area with trees
• shantytown is a densely packed housing units of weak build quality
• coffe, bananas, sugarcane are 3 cash corps that supply much of latin america
• what are the enviromental effect of the slash-and-burn cultivation?

  good=nutrients the soil. bad=it washes away and can't farm there
• Latin America economy is based on the export of agricultural land in latin America
• the economy of many latam is linked to one or two cash corps
• damage to the Amazon rain forest has both local and global consequences