Vocabulary
a great city that is made up of several large and small cities
megacity
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a strip of land that connects two larger landmasses, enabling the migration of plants and animals
land bridge
People whose ancestry includes both indigenous and Spanish heritage are
A. creoles.
B. mestizos.
C. indios.
D. peninsulares
B.
Vertical climate zones in Mexico are zones in which
A. a subtropical climate supports rain forests.
B. most of the land has become chaparral.
C. natural vegetation and crops vary by elevation.
D. coastal areas suffer from erosion
C. natural vegetation and crops vary by elevation.
technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
sustainable development
an early Mexican civilization whose capital was on the site of present-day Mexico City
In Mexico, many people live with their ____________________, which includes different generations
of a family, as well as cousins and other relatives.
A. blended family
B. nuclear family
C. heterogamous family
D. extended family
D. extended family
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Foreign-owned factories located in Mexico along the border with the United States are called
A. encomiendas.
B. haciendas.
C. empresarios.
D. maquiladoras
D. maquiladoras
the flat inland area between the Sierra Madres
Mexican Plateau
an urban area that dominates a country’s economy, culture, and government and in which population is concentrated
primate city
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Which of the following are two causes of deforestation in Mexico?
A. corporate logging and the clearing of land for agriculture
B. the clearing of land for agriculture and acid rain
C. corporate logging and the acid rain
D. acid rain and a growing population
A. corporate logging and the clearing of land for agriculture
Mexico’s location on the Gulf of Mexico enabled a large ____________________ industry to develop.
A. automotive
B. fishing
C. ship-building
D. textile
B. fishing
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the process through which arable land becomes dry and can support little or no vegetation
desertification
the river that forms part of the border between Mexico and the United States
Rio Grande
14. One effect of land subsidence is the creation of
A. oases.
B. sinkholes.
C. new biomes.
D. estuaries
B. sinkholes.
Most of the food grown in Mexico comes from the ____________________, where there is also
greater population density.
A. Central Plateau
B. Southern Highlands
C. Gulf Coast Plain
D. Sierra Madre Occidental
A. Central Plateau
an early Mexican civilization that was centered in the Yucatán Peninsula
Maya
the type of biome found in northern Mexico, with cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers
chaparral
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Mexico City’s geography makes air pollution a greater problem because it is located
A. on a mountainside, where the air is thinner.
B. in a valley, which often traps carbon emissions.
C. on the coast, which creates the heat island effect.
D. on a plain, so there is little wind to disperse the pollution.
B. in a valley, which often traps carbon emissions.
What early civilization in Mexico engaged in long-distance trade and built huge stone cities that had been abandoned by the time the Spanish arrived?
A. the Olmec
B. the Aztec
C. the Zapotec
D. the Maya
D. the Maya