Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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The principle of political or commercial cooperation between the US and the countries of South America, as well as those in Central America and the Caribbean.

A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.

Prevailing winds that blow from west to east, named for their origin not their destination.

A term used to describe people with both black and white ancestry.

The name, most often used as a derogatory term, given to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua because their economies were based on tropical primary commodities such as bananas, but were also highly corrupt and unstable.

The dominance of a country by one city region

An underground layer of rock that bears water.

A subtropical, semi-permanent, high- pressure zone in the Atlantic

A segment of the economy that is made up of jobs and services performed as opposed to goods produced.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

Occurred when European colonists came to the New World and brought diseases that killed millions of indigenous people.

Locations in which tariffs and other trade barriers are reduced or eliminated and goods, services, and capital are allowed to flow more freely between countries.

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