Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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

A trade union between Canada, Mexico and the USA.

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.

An underground layer of rock that bears water.

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