Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

South America
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The systemic variation in sea temperature in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of South America, typically in late December, that has an impact on the weather of the region and across other regions of the world.

Name given to the forest and woodland area of Brazil.

Based on the theories of John Maynard Keynes that posit government can influence economic growth through monetary policies to overcome price rigidity and imperfect labor markets.

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.

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

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

A period of rapid economic growth in Brazil that lasted from 1968 to 1980.

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

Volcanic regions fed by mantle from below the earth's surface. Nit caused by tectonic plate movement.

An amalgam of gangs, ex military and military backed irregulars within a country, that were often involved in appropriations of peasant lands in South America.

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

A movement that seeks the reaffirmation of indigenous people and their rights.

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