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Where is Mexico located?
South of America/North America
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What is Mexico the largest producer of?
Silver
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What splits Mexico in two
Gulf of California
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What is Mexico's largest export?
Coffee
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How much of Mexico's land can be used for farming?
1/5th
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What disease killed a large portion of indigenous people?
Smallpox
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What are the two political parties in Mexico?
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) & National Action Party
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What is the largest city in Mexico?
Mexico City
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Why did the Spanish travel to Mexico?
God, Gold, & Glory
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What is a Spanish Conquistador?
soldier explorer
300
What are the two mountain ranges in the United States? Where are they located?
Sierra Madre Occidental (West) & Sierra Madre Oriental (East)
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How has Mexico improved their education system?
build schools, hire teachers, books & supplies
300
What are the 3 issues with the cities along the Mexican border?
Inadequate housing, overcrowding, lack of water & sewer system
300
What makes Central America a diverse society? (6 hints)
West African, Native American, French, Danish, British, & Spanish
300
What was the most prosperous Central American country? What was the poorest?
Costa Rica (prosperous) / Honduras (poor)
400
What style of music and dance originated from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica?
Salsa - Puerto Rico (Music), Merengue - Dominican Republic, Reggae - Jamaica
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What are the 4 different types of climates in Mexico?
Arid, Tropical Wet & Dry, Humid Subtropical, Semiarid
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What is the difference between Northern & Southern Mexico in terms of climate/environment? What are the issues in the North and South in relation to environment?
Baja California & Northern Mexico VERY DRY (Sonoran & Chihuahuan Desert) & Southern Mexico – More rain, grow crops, thick rainforests / North is too dry for farming/growing crops & South traveling and farming more difficult (forest & rain)
400
After gaining their independence, what DIDN’T the Mexicans do? How does that effect the govn’t?
Write a constitution & Leaders compete for power – unstable govn’t
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Know the 4 other environmental issues in Mexico
Pollution/Air Pollution – sickness, salt ruins fertility of soil, overgrazing, deforestation
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How is the Mexican government similar to the United States?
3 branches, checks & balances (president has more power - congress getting more) / vote at 18
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Why do Mexicans travel North to the U.S.? What are remittances?
work – remittances: money sent from one country to home country (important to economy)
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How is the Mexican economy dependent on America’s economy?
Economy dependent on America’s U.S. economy does well, Mexico does well & U.S. economy slows down, Mexico’s suffers
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What is the issue with Mexico’s dependence on trade?
Dependence on trade - less product sold (can’t compete w/lower prices)
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Define economic leakage. How does tourism endanger the environment? What is the issue with large scale farming? What is deforestation?
Economic leakage – foreign control of tourist industry resulting in tourist revenue leaving the local economy / Pollution: large-scale farming (pesticides & chemicals); pollute water supply kill plants & animals, harm ecosystems (coral reefs) / Deforestation – ranching, farming, need for timber led to the clearing of tree