Vocabulary
What is a farm product grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family?
What is a Cash Crop?
What large body of water forms Mexico's east coast?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
What do farmers depend on for their crops?
What is climate?
What is Mexico’s primary language?
What is Spanish?
Only 12% of Mexico's land is suitable for what?
What is farming?
What is a strip of land that connects two larger land masses, enabling the migration of plants and animals to new areas?
What is a Landbridge?
What are the two important parts of Mexico’s economy?
What are minerals and silver?
In the lower altitudes along the coast what is the climate?
What is a hot climate?
What country owned Mexican land before it became independent?
What is Spain?
Nearly 500,000 acres are lost per year to what?
What is deforestation?
What is the loss or destruction of forests mainly for logging or farming?
What is deforestation?
What are the mountains stretching along the northwestern edge of Mexico?
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental?
Southern Mexico has a variety of what?
What are biomes?
What is the main city in Mexico called?
What is Mexico City?
Mexico ranks 13th in the world for what export?
What is Oil?
What is the sinking or settling of land to a lower level in response to various natural and human-caused factors?
What is a Land Subsidence?
What is the western side of Mexico?
What is the Ring of Fire?
In Northern Mexico what causes crops to not grow?
What is thin and rocky soil?
What political party currently governs Mexico?
What is PRI?
What are Mexico's resources?
What is petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, and timber?
In Mexico, a manufacturing plant owned by a foreign company is what?
What is a maquiladora?
What are the two different broken parts of the Mexican Plateau?
What are Mesa del Norte, and Mesa Central?
What does the plant life consist of in Northern Mexico?
What are cacti, shrubs, and shrub oak?
What political party wishes to recover the Mexican Government and make Mexico a better place to live?
What is PRI?
Buildings in Mexico City are tilting because of abandoned water pipes?
What is Land Subsidence?