Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean

An underground layer of rock that bears water.

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

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

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

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

A group of people living outside of their homeland.

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

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

A trade union between Canada, Mexico and the USA.

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

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

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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