Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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Prevailing winds that blow from east to west, named for their origin not their destination.

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

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

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

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

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

The dominance of a country by one city region

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

A plan in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century by Scottish investors to establish a colony of Scottish settlers in the isthmus of Central America.

The name, most often used as a derogatory term, given to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua because their economies were based on tropical primary commodities such as bananas, but were also highly corrupt and unstable.

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

When a tectonic plate is pushed under another plate.

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