Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

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

Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.

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

A policy implemented by the US that laid claim to geopolitical influence in the Central American and Caribbean region.

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

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

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

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

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

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

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