Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

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

The economic and political alliance of most European countries.

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.

Refers to a situation in which the concentration of a nation's population in just one city.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 term used to describe those with black and indigenous ancestry.

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