Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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The targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state

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

A trade union between Canada, Mexico and the USA.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

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

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.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

The dominance of a country by one city region

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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).

The principle of political or commercial cooperation between the US and the countries of South America, as well as those in Central America and the Caribbean.

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

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