Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

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

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

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 group of people living outside of their homeland.

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

Religions with beliefs and practice created from multiple religious traditions.

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

The surface temperature of seawater.

When a tectonic plate is pushed under another plate.

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

The name, most often used as a derogatory term, given to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua because their economies were based on tropical primary commodities such as bananas, but were also highly corrupt and unstable.

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