Vocab
What is a climate zone that occurs as elevation increases, with its own natural crops?
What is vertical climate zone?
What area is the hottest?
What are the lower altitudes along the coast?
During the 1990s the Mexican government began to prioritize?
what is airline industry
An area on the western side of Mexico where the Pacific tectonic plates collide with other tectonic plates.
What is the ring of fire?
What group of people are the greatest victims of the urban water crisis?
What is the poors and middle class?
What is a Spanish soldier who participated in conquest of indigenous peoples of Latin America?
What is conquistador?
Where do they grow corn?
What is Tierra Templada?
Signed by Mexico,United States, an Canada
What is North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
A physical landform that connects North America and South America.
What is the landbridge?
How many mountain ranges does Mexico have?
What are the 3 mountain ranges?
What is a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith?
What is syncretism?
Where do they grow bananas?
What is Tierra Caliente?
Many buildings have what on the walls
What is wall paintings/ stones or tiles
A wide stretch of land from the Sierra Madre Oriental.
What is the Gulf Coastal Plain?
Rounding to the nearest 10 what percent of Mexico's land is arable?
What is the 10% of the land that is arable?
What is a manufacturing plant owned by a foreign company?
What is maquiladora?
What area is the coldest?
What are Tierra Helada and Tierra Fría?
A household made up of many generations of family members
What is extended family?
Mountains that stretch along the northwestern edge of Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental?
What are four of Mexico's natural resources?
What is petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zink, natural gas, and timber?
What is a farm product grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family?
What is cash crop?
What kinds of climate zones occur as elevation increases?
What is vertical climate zone?
Main place of travel and careers freight
What is Mexico City?
The largest and most deeply populated part of Mexico.
What is the inland Mexican Plateau?
How many water reservoirs are there in Mexico?
What are the 210 reservoirs?