Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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Locations in which tariffs and other trade barriers are reduced or eliminated and goods, services, and capital are allowed to flow more freely between countries.

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

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

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

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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

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

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).

Currency from another country.

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

Refers to people of mixed European-indigenous origin, including the vast majority of the people of Central America.

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

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