Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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When a tectonic plate is pushed under another plate.

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

Currency from another country.

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

A subtropical, semi-permanent, high- pressure zone in the Atlantic

Factories in Mexico, often close to the US-Mexico border that export goods northwards to the USA.

Also referred to as voodoo. Emerged in the New World from the mixing of African and Christian religious beliefs and practices.

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

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

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

Elite groups that use their political power to enrich themselves rather the nation welfare and at the expense of general social welfare.

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

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