Ch 6. Review- Mexico

Question 0

Foreign owned factories along the Northern Mexican border.

Answer 0

Maquiladoras

Question 1

This is a steep sided depression formed when the roof of a cave collapses.

Answer 1

Sink-hole

Question 2

When people from the Spanish church come to covert the indigenous to Catholicism.

Answer 2

Missions

Question 3

Mixture of chemicals, smoke, and fog

Answer 3

Smog

Question 4

Used to be an island founded by the Aztec, and is now Mexico City.

Answer 4

Tenochtitlan

Question 5

System in which a central power controls a number of territories

Answer 5

Empire

Question 6

A widespread outbreak

Answer 6

Epidemic

Question 7

Huge farmlands granted by e Spanish monarch to favored people.

Answer 7

Haciendas

Question 8

Bodies signal that it needs more food.

Answer 8

Hunger

Question 9

Rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power.

Answer 9

Inflation

Question 10

When forests are cut and burned to clear land for planting.

Answer 10

Slash and burn agriculture

Question 11

Raised field on which Aztecs grew crops

Answer 11

Chinampas

Question 12

Lands owned and worked on Mexican Indians

Answer 12

Ejidos

Question 13

People of mixed European and African ancestry

Answer 13

Mulattos

Question 14

People of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.

Answer 14

Mestizos

Question 15

Produced primarily to sell rather than for the farmer to eat.

Answer 15

Cash Crops

Question 16

The measure of food deprivation

Answer 16

Undernourishment

Question 17

They domesticated the earliest form of corn

Answer 17

Mesoamerica early cultures

Question 18

Mexico gain independence due to what?

Answer 18

Revolt started by a catholic priest

Question 19

What were two advantages of Hernan Cortez on his conquest against the Aztecs?

Answer 19

Muskets an horses

Question 20

Spanish came and brought what epidemic over, killing a large number of Indians?

Answer 20

Small pox

Question 21

This group of people created a detailed calendar.

Answer 21

Maya

Question 22

This group was taken over by the Spanish.

Answer 22

Aztec

Question 23

This group of people seemed to abandon all of their cities after the collapse of their civilization

Answer 23

Maya

Question 24

In Mexico, this is a sign of a persons ethnic identity

Answer 24

Language

Question 25

This is what the Spanish thought of techochtitlan…

Answer 25

It was amazing and advanced for its time

Question 26

NAFTA is a _____________ agreement between what three places?

Answer 26

Trade, Mexico, US, Canada

Question 27

Spain’s territory after conquering the Aztec was called

Answer 27

New Spain

Question 28

Halloween in Mexico is called:

Answer 28

The day of the dead

Question 29

This early vulture built temples, pyramids, and huge statues

Answer 29

Olmec People

Question 30

This region lies north of the capital and has fertile valleys

Answer 30

Central Interior

Question 31

This region had over 20 million people and suffers from smog

Answer 31

Greater Mexico City

Question 32

This region is sparely populated and people practice slash-and-burn agriculture there

Answer 32

The Yucatan

Question 33

This region includes Tijuana, is modernized, and had maquiladoras.

Answer 33

Northern Mexico

Question 34

People still speak Indian languages and use subsistence farming in this region.

Answer 34

Southern Mexico

Question 35

This region is between Tampico and Campache, and has been cleared for farming and ranching.

Answer 35

Oil Coast

Question 36

Many Mexicans work at what levels of industry..

Answer 36

Primary and secondary industries

Question 37

This natural resource is a scarcity in Mexico

Answer 37

Water

Question 38

The other name for the Rio Grande is

Answer 38

The Rio Bravo

Question 39

Mexico’s peninsula is

Answer 39

The Baja Peninsula

Question 40

What are the two major mountain ranges on each side of the Mexican Plateau

Answer 40

Sierra Madre Occidental and Oriental

Question 41

This is the Capital of Mexico?

Answer 41

Mexico City