Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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The surface temperature of seawater.

When a tectonic plate is pushed under another plate.

Elite groups that use their political power to enrich themselves rather the nation welfare and at the expense of general social welfare.

The abandonment of cities and towns of the Mayan Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The dominance of a country by one city region

Also referred to as voodoo. Emerged in the New World from the mixing of African and Christian religious beliefs and practices.

A name given to the large drug trade in Central and South American.

A national or regional economy that relies heavily of the profits from the trade in illegal drugs.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

A way of thinking about the world that considers the relationship between one's location and another and is sensitive to people/environment relations.

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

A plan in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century by Scottish investors to establish a colony of Scottish settlers in the isthmus of Central America.

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