Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean

A group of people living outside of their homeland.

A policy implemented by the US that laid claim to geopolitical influence in the Central American and Caribbean region.

When a tectonic plate is pushed under another plate.

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

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

The surface temperature of seawater.

Currency from another country.

The abandonment of cities and towns of the Mayan Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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

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

Elite groups that use their political power to enrich themselves rather the nation welfare and at the expense of general social welfare.

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

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