NM Geography, Part II

Question 1

How individuals change the land to meet their needs (building a road for a cattle drive), and how the land influences the way people live (that road floods certain times of the year and you can’t use it during that time).

Answer 1

Human-Environment Interaction

Question 2

What things are important for a cattle route?

Answer 2

Easy access to grazing land and enough water.

Question 3

Which cattle trail went through the eastern edge of New Mexico?

Answer 3

The Goodnight Loving Trail.

Question 4

Why did they build the Salinas Pueblo Missions where they did?

Answer 4

The Manzano Mountains offered protection. There was grazing land and water there. There was salt in the area.

Question 5

The movement of people, and ideas that they bring with them, and the import and export of goods, the movement of goods from one place to another, and mass communication have…

Answer 5

…played major roles in shaping New Mexico.

Question 6

Which are the major interstates in NM?

Answer 6

I-25 (north to south, along the Rio Grande) and I-40 (east to west).

Question 7

What determines where people live, the types of houses they build, and how closely they live together?

Answer 7

Resources

Question 8

Identify characteristics that are shared among places.

Answer 8

Regions

Question 9

Which are some of the regions NM is a part of?

Answer 9

The Southwest, the Mountain states, the Four Corners.

Question 10

What is key to life zones in NM?

Answer 10

Altitude. Different species of plants and animals can survive at different altitudes.