Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

South America
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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.

Name given to the forest and woodland area of Brazil.

An amalgam of gangs, ex military and military backed irregulars within a country, that were often involved in appropriations of peasant lands in South America.

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.

Volcanic regions fed by mantle from below the earth's surface. Nit caused by tectonic plate movement.

An economic ideology that promotes deregulation, minimal or small government, low taxation, and free trade.

An indigenous group inhabiting lands in central Chile and southwest Argentina.

A region of South America that runs from Columbia, through Ecuador and Peru into Bolivia and parts of the Amazon rainforest with a significant indigenous population is primarily located.

The name for marginal settlements or slums in Brazil.

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.

An economic system in Latin America in which productive and accessible land was parceled out, often through Royal Charter, into large private estates.

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

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