Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

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

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.

A major sailing route that linked Europe, Africa and the New World in the transport of goods and slaves.

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

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

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

A segment of the economy that is made up of jobs and services performed as opposed to goods produced.

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

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

Currency from another country.

When a tectonic plate is pushed under another plate.

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

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