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100
This Mexican dessert is covered in caramel.
What is flan?
100
This is the Mexican word for party.
What is fiesta?
100
This is the capital of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
100
This peninsula juts into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Yucatan?
100
Tourists like to visit Mexico because of these.
What are the beaches?
200
This is a traditional Mexican made with corn dough wrapped around meat fillings cooked in banana leaves or corn husks.
What is a tamale?
200
This is a colorful paper mache figure filled with candy.
What is pinata?
200
This is the currency of Mexico.
What is the peso?
200
This is the river that forms much of the northern border of Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
Many older homes are made of these sun-dried bricks.
What is adobe?
300
This is a spicy Mexican sausage.
What is chorizo?
300
This is a celebration for 15 year old girls.
What is a Quincinera?
300
This popular Mexican city begins with a “C."
What is Cancun?
300
This is Mexico’s western mountain range.
What is the Sierra Madre?
300
Almost 1/5 of this metal is mined in Mexico.
What is silver?
400
Mexico introduced this sweet ingredient to the world.
What is chocolate?
400
This winter flower originated in Mexico.
What is a poinsettia?
400
Mexico won their independence from this country.
What is Spain?
400
This is the peninsula on the west coast of Mexico.
What is the Baja Pensinsula?
400
Only 11% of land is suitable for this.
What is farming?
500
This is the kind of meat used to make Carne Asada.
What is beef?
500
These are the people that make up a group of musicians you hear playing music while strolling through a plaza on a Sunday afternoon.
What are the Mariochis?
500
This Native American group ruled Mexico before Europe invaded Mexico.
What are the Aztecs?
500
Central Mexico’s major industrial cities are Mexico City and this city.
What is Guadalajara?
500
Texas, Arizona, and this state were once part of Mexico.
What is California?
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