Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

South America
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Often follows an El Niño event, and is characterized by a decrease in sea temperature across the Eastern Central Pacific of up to 5 degrees C, which also has an impact on the weather of the region and across other regions of the world.

Occurs when countries, after very rapid growth from low to middle income status, falter due to poor infrastructure-poor roads and inadequate sanitation, education and health facilities- and low productivity.

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

An attempt by a group or individual to overthrow an existing government in order to implement their own regime.

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

The systemic variation in sea temperature in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of South America, typically in late December, that has an impact on the weather of the region and across other regions of the world.

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

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

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

A period of rapid economic growth in Brazil that lasted from 1968 to 1980.

A movement that seeks the reaffirmation of indigenous people and their rights.

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.

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