Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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A subtropical, semi-permanent, high- pressure zone in the Atlantic

The dominance of a country by one city region

Sector of the economy that is not recorded in government and official statistics, where few, if any, taxes are paid.

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

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

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

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

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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).

Religions with beliefs and practice created from multiple religious traditions.

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