Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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Currency from another country.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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

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

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

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

A national or regional economy that relies heavily of the profits from the trade in illegal drugs.

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

An underground layer of rock that bears water.

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