Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

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

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

A name given to the large drug trade in Central and South American.

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

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

An underground layer of rock that bears water.

Factories in Mexico, often close to the US-Mexico border that export goods northwards to the USA.

A trade union between Canada, Mexico and the USA.

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.

Religions with beliefs and practice created from multiple religious traditions.

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

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