MEXICAN CULTURE & HISTORY
This holiday is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd to honor the dead.
What is Día de Muertos?
This is the process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the capital of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
This is the past tense of “go.”
What is went?
This sport is the most popular in the world.
What is soccer (football)?
This Mexican leader is known as “El Padre de la Patria.”
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This ocean borders Mexico on the west.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
This technology company created the iPhone.
What is Apple?
This ancient civilization built Chichén Itzá.
Who are the Maya?
This organ pumps blood through the human body.
What is the heart?
This river forms part of the border between Mexico and the United States.
What is the Rio Grande (Río Bravo)?
This famous Mexican writer wrote Pedro Páramo.
Who is Juan Rulfo?
This global organization aims to maintain international peace.
What is the United Nations?
This event marked the beginning of Mexico’s independence in 1810.
What is the Grito de Dolores?
This force keeps objects attracted to Earth.
What is gravity?
This is the largest country in the world by land area.
What is Russia?
This literary device compares two things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This pandemic began in 2019 and affected the entire world.
What is COVID-19?
This Mexican constitution was established in 1917 and is still in use today.
What is the Constitution of 1917?
This element has the chemical symbol “O.”
What is oxygen?
This desert is one of the hottest in the world and is located in northern Mexico and the U.S.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
This Mexican Nobel Prize winner is known for poetry and essays.
Who is Octavio Paz?
This country is known for the Eiffel Tower.
What is France?