Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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

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

Religions with beliefs and practice created from multiple religious traditions.

The surface temperature of seawater.

Occurred when European colonists came to the New World and brought diseases that killed millions of indigenous people.

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

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