Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

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

The name for marginal settlements or slums in Brazil.

Occurs when countries, after very rapid growth from low to middle income status, falter due to poor infrastructure-poor roads and inadequate sanitation, education and health facilities- and low productivity.

The economic and political alliance of most European countries.

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).

An indigenous group inhabiting lands in central Chile and southwest Argentina.

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

An economic theory, named after famed economist John Maynard Keynes, in which government investments into economic activity are seen as a viable, and sometimes necessary, contributor to economic growth.

Often follows an El Niño event, and is characterized by a decrease in sea temperature across the Eastern Central Pacific of up to 5 degrees C, which also has an impact on the weather of the region and across other regions of the world.

An economic system in Latin America in which productive and accessible land was parceled out, often through Royal Charter, into large private estates.

Name given to the forest and woodland area of Brazil.

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

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