Central America Vocabulary

Process of changing the environment

• climate

• modification

• deforestation

• natural resource

conditions needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor, and capital

• climate

• cultural diffusion

• natural resource

• factors of production

a pattern resulting from the combination of precipitation and temperature over time in a location

• modification

• climate

• renewable resource

• Columbian Exchange

materials found in nature that are often used for economic gain

• factors of production

• cultural diffusion

• natural resource

• deforestation

refers to natural resources that CANNOT be remade or replenished

• renewable

• cultural diffusion

• non-renewable resource

• climate

refers to a natural resource that CAN replenished naturally

• renewable resource

• non-renewable resource

• natural resource

• modification

clearing forests to use the area for other purposes

• climate control

• modification

• logging

• deforestation

an interchange of plants, animals, disease, people, and culture between the Western and Eastern hemispheres following the voyages of Columbus

• deforestation

• Columbian Exchange

• climate change

• factors of production

the process of spreading cultural traits from one region to another

• cultural diffusion

• modification

• Columbian Exchange

• non-renewable resource