Pollution affecting Mexico City that is a combination of smoke, fog, and chemicals and is made worse by the surrounding mountains
a) cash crops
b) smog
c) chinampras
d) slash-and-burn agriculture
What is smog
100
Name the capital of Mexico
What is Mexico City
100
European power that conquered the Aztecs and ruled Mexico for 300 years from 1521-1821
What is Spain
100
Mexico's coastal resorts and Aztec and Maya ruins attract many _________
What are tourists
100
A major achievement of the Maya
What is they studied the stars and developed a detailed calendar
200
Church outposts where Spanish priests taught Indians Spanish and Catholicism
a) missions
b) highlands
c) haciendas
d) chinampras
What are missions
200
River that forms the border between the U.S. and Mexico
What is the Rio Bravo or Rio Grande
200
Approximately when did the Maya civilization collapse?
a) before 1500 BC
b) after 900
c) after 1300
d) after 1500
What is after 900
200
Two problems in Mexico City
What are smog/pollution and poverty
200
Which civilization (Maya, Aztec, or Inca) suddenly collapsed for an unknown reason
What is the Maya
300
Huge expanses of farm or ranch land granted by the Spanish monarch
a) peninsula
b) maquiladoras
c) haciendas
d) chinampras
What are haciendas
300
Describe the vegetation in northern Mexico
What is desert plants and dry grasslands
300
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
a) Benito Juarez
b) Vicente Fox
c) Porifirio Diaz
d) Hernan Cortes
Who was Hernan Cortes
300
Cash crop that grows well in southern Mexico's warm, humid climate
What is sugar cane or coffee
300
Where did the Olmec people live?
a) northern Mexico
b) on the Yucatan Peninsula
c) central Mexico
d) on the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico
What is on the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico
400
A rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power
a) economy
b) inflation
c) depression
d) unemployment
What is inflation
400
Two peninsulas in Mexico are _________ and _________
What are the Yucatan Peninsula and Baja California
400
Catholic priest who led a revolt against Spanish rule around 1810
a) Hernan Cortes
b) Benito Juarez
c) Miguel Hidalgo
d) Porfirio Diaz
Who was Miguel Hidalgo
400
Location of the fastest-growing industrial centers in Mexico
What is along the U.S. border
400
People of mixed European and Indian ancestry
a) maquiladoras
b) highlands
c) mestizos
d) missions
Who are mestizos
500
U.S. and foreign-owned factories in Mexico
a) mestizos
b) haciendas
c) highlands
d) maquiladoras
What are maquiladoras
500
Locate the Sierra Madre Oriental on a map of Mexico
See map
500
The first Mexican president of Indian heritage
a) Benito Juarez
b) Miguel Hidalgo
c) Vicente Fox
d) Porifirio Diaz
Who was Benito Juarez
500
The first president to represent a different political party in Mexico for 71 years (elected in 2000)
a) Benito Juarez
b) Porifirio Diaz
c) Vicente Fox
d) Hernan Cortes
Who is Vicente Fox
500
Civilization that built their city on what is now Mexico City