605 Q1

Question 1

What evenly divides Mexico?

Answer 1

The Tropic of Cancer

Question 2

Mexico City is on land that was once what?

Answer 2

a lake

Question 3

What type of plant is used to provide fiber for baler twine and is used for making baskets, handbags, etc?

Answer 3

The Henequen Plant

Question 4

Mexico City and its surrounding towns and cities is an example of what type of area?

Answer 4

Metropolitan

Question 5

Most of Mexico’s regions are dryer where?

Answer 5

In the North

Question 6

An area of high flat land is called a what?

Answer 6

Plateau (like Seymour, MO)

Question 7

The Mayan Indian’s home area is where?

Answer 7

Yucatan Peninsula

Question 8

When the government owns or controls an industry, the industry has become what?

Answer 8

Nationalized

Question 9

What map do I need to study for Quiz 1?

Answer 9

maps on pg 10 of Lightunit :-) . Know countries, regiouns, Tropic of Cancer, etc

Question 10

What are three places that Mexico uses the name “Mexico” for?

Answer 10

Mexico City, Mexico Country, and the State of Mexico

Question 11

Mexico’s oil wells were nationalized in what year?

Answer 11

1940

Question 12

Indigenas refers to what?

Answer 12

Native people

Question 13

The coastal plan on which side of Mexico is wider?

Answer 13

The Gulf side

Question 14

Raising just enough crops to make a living is called what?

Answer 14

Subsistence

Question 15

A nations system of producing and using wealth is called its what?

Answer 15

Economy

Question 16

Where are most of Meixco’s cities located?

Answer 16

Mexican Plateau

Question 17

What percent of the population in Mexico are farmers?

Answer 17

Only about 1/4th

Question 18

Ciudades perdidas means what?

Answer 18

“Lost Cities”

Question 19

Where has crime been a problem in Mexico metropolitan area?

Answer 19

In the “lost cities”

Question 20

Mexico’s mountainous and hilly land is in what climate zone?

Answer 20

Tierra Fria

Question 21

Mexico City is in what district?

Answer 21

The Federal District

Question 22

What are the three largest Latin American countries in order from largest to smallest?

Answer 22

Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico

Question 23

Henquen farms have seen a rise or fall in twin sales in recent years?

Answer 23

Fall

Question 24

High oil prices in Mexico hardly affected living conditions for who?

Answer 24

Farms and poor communities

Question 25

“City of the Dead”

Answer 25

Veracruz

Question 26

Many of the people have moved into what city?

Answer 26

Mexico city

Question 27

Mexico’s population is how much mestizo?

Answer 27

60%

Question 28

Where are Mexico’s oil wells located?

Answer 28

Gulf coast

Question 29

Where are Mexico’s iron mines?

Answer 29

In the northern part of the country

Question 30

When did Mexico’s oil production increase?

Answer 30

In the 1940s, when it was nationalized