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Chapter 8 Mexico
Mexico PAMS Grade 6 Geography Chapter 8
Question | Answer |
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what the Rio Bravo is called in the US | Rio Grande |
a serious issue, particularly in the dry north, where there is not much water | water scarcity |
underlines much of the Yucatan Peninsula | limestone |
the most valuable part of Mexico's mining industry | silver |
how high above sea level something is | elevation |
the capital of Mexico | Mexico City |
Mexico's most important energy resource | petroleum |
rugged celtral region of Mexico called the Mexican Plateau | central plateau |
a long narrow peninsula that extends south from Mexico's morthwestern border with the united states | Baja California |
people who lived along the humid southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico | Olmec |
helps us understand Mayan civilization | Mayan writing |
capital of the Aztec area on an island in a lake in the Valley of Mexico | Tenochtitlan |
the most important factor in the Spanish conquest | disease |
began moving into central Mexico from the north about AD 1200 | Aztecs |
people of mixed European and Indian ancestry | mestizos |
began a revolt against Spanish rule in 1810, a catholic priest | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
one major indicator of a person's ethnic identity | language |
Mexico's government includes this and an elected President | congress |
a rise in prices | inflation |
farming, long been an important part of the Medxican economy | agriculture |
produced primarily to sell, rather than for the farmer to eat | cash crops |
a mixture of smoke, chemicals, and fog | smog |
Mexico's most important energy resource and Mexdico has the world's eighth largest crude _____ reserves | oil |
factories located along the northern border of Mexico that are often foreign-owned | maquiladoras |
an area of forest is burned to clear it for planting | slash-and-burn agriculture |
conquerors | conquistadors |
a widespread outbreak | epidemic |
raised-field version of agriculture in the swampy lakes of Mexico | chinampas |
people of mixed European and African anscestry | mulattoes |
Indians owned and worked this land in groups | ejidos |
huge expanses of farmlands | haciendas |
church outposts | missions |
city near the northeastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula | Merida |
city in northwestern Mexico by the border that commects to San Diego, CA, USA | Tijuana |
major industrial center in northeastern Mexico | Monterrey |
Most of Northern Mexico is _____. | arid |
What is the Capital of Mexico? | Mexico City |
Baja California seperates the Gulf of California from the ______. | Pacific Ocean |
Since the 1980s Mexico has wrestled with debts to foreign banks, high unemployment, and __________. | inflation |
Only __ percent of the land in Mexico can grow crops. | 12 |
The population in the forested coastal plains between Tampico and Campeche has grown as ___ production there has increased. | oil |
Many foreign-owned factories, known as ____________, are located in northern Mexico. | maquiladoras |
In the Yucatan Peninsula, some farmers clear areas of forest using a practice that is known as ______________ agriculture. | slash-and-burn |
What year did Texas break away in? | 1856 |
What year did the Spanish complete the conquest of the Aztecs? | 1521 |