Chapter 9 Geography Test

Question 1

Developed tools and methods for raising cattle

Answer 1

Vaqueros

Question 2

Factories in which people assemble parts in other countries

Answer 2

Maquiladora

Question 3

Small plots of land where farmers grow only enough food to eat

Answer 3

Subsistence farm

Question 4

Large farms that grow a single crop for sale

Answer 4

Plantation

Question 5

Mexicans that can not find work

Answer 5

Migrant workers

Question 6

Percent of people that can read and write

Answer 6

Literacy rate

Question 7

Communists overset that decides how resources are used and what goods are produced

Answer 7

Command economy

Question 8

Self governing territories

Answer 8

Common wealth

Question 9

Money sent back home by Haitians that work in other countries

Answer 9

Remittances

Question 10

Amazon rain forest

Answer 10

Selva

Question 11

Overcrowded slum areas surrounded by Brazilian cities

Answer 11

Favelas

Question 12

Cow hands

Answer 12

Gauchos

Question 13

Money owed by the government

Answer 13

National debt

Question 14

Miss payment to a company or person that lent money

Answer 14

Default

Question 15

Mineral used in fertilizer and explosives

Answer 15

Sodium nitrate

Question 16

Public square

Answer 16

Plaza