Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Banking

B  Education

C  Trade

D  Tourism

A  Brownsville

B  Laredo

C  Corpus Christi

D  Houston

A  Agriculture is important to the economy of select places in MexAmerica, but is not widespread

B  There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica

C  Agriculture is important to the economy of most parts of MexAmerica.

D  Agriculture is widespread and central to the economy of the region

A  Flash Flood

B  Lightning

C  Hurricane

D  Tornado

A  South Padre Island

B  Galveston

C  Key West

D  Fort Lauderdale

A  The Rocky Mountains

B  The Gulf Coastal Plain

C  The Great Plains

D  The Intermontane

A  Settlements where people live in trailers, shacks, and other substandard housing.

B  Spanish settlements that refused to move after the Treaty of Guadalupe that were absorbed into the United States.

C  Areas set aside for long-term residence motels for foreign workers.

D  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

A  The Rocky Mountains

B  The Basin and Range

C  The Gulf Coastal Plain

D  All of these answer choices are physiographic subregions that make up MexAmerica

E  The Great Plains

A  Military aircraft

B  The atomic bomb

C  The electric automobile

D  The computer

A  About twenty-five percent of the population is of Spanish descent

B  Native Americans account for about one percent of the population

C  The region includes the entire U.S. – Mexico border

D  The humid and wet climate attracted early Anglo settlement in the region

E  Excluding transitional areas, the region extends into Colorado and Utah

A  Long-toed salamander

B  West Indian manatee

C  Shortnose sturgeon

D  Vaquita

E  Silvery minnow

A  weapons

B  Steel

C  Petrochemicals

D  Clothing

E  Beer and other beverages

A  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

B  nearly 80% of finished goods are re-exported to the U.S

C  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

D  They are mostly Mexican-owned

E  They mostly assemble imported, duty-free components/raw materials

A  The Official Texas River List

B  The National River List

C  America’s Most Endangered River

D  America’s Most Beautiful River

E  America’s Longest Rivers

A  Utah

B  Nevada

C  California

D  Kansas

E  Arizona

A  A young population

B  A small population

C  An urban population

D  A suburban population

E  A very low population

A  Earthquakes

B  Drought

C  Flooding

D  Tornadoes

A  Cholera

B  Mosquito-borne diseases

C  Hepatitis

D  Bronchial problems

E  Arthritis

A  NAFTA sets up regulations limiting industrial pollution in all three countries, ensuring the costs of manufacturing are similar in each country.

B  NAFTA regulates and enforces protections for workers to ensure that they have safe working environments and fair wages.

C  NAFTA eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.

D  NAFTA eliminates tariffs and trade restrictions, facilitating export and import between countries in North America.

A  California, Nevada, Utah, as well as parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado

B  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

C  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

D  West Texas, as well as parts of New Mexico, and Colorado

A  Western MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

B  Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.

C  Precipitation is fairly even from east to west.

D  Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

A  Arizona

B  All three states have about the same percentage of Latino residents

C  Texas

D  New Mexico

A  Agriculture is widespread throughout MexAmerica because of the region’s rich soils

B  In the northern part of the region where there is more regular precipitation

C  Near the Rio Grande in the eastern portion of MexAmerica and the Arizona portion of the Colorado River, in the western part of the region

D  In the southern part of the region where it is warm enough to grow frost intolerant crops Students may not think “b” is a viable answers unless center(s) is referenced in the question.

A  Tucson

B  Scottsdale

C  Sun City

D  Phoenix

A  It helped increase U.S.-Mexican border integration

B  It resulted in the creation of the so-called ‘twin city’ phenomenon

C  It increased the flow of Mexican shoppers into the U.S. searching for goods unavailable in Mexico

D  It resulted in the creation of a special tariff class for the maquiladoras

E  It increased the flow of American retirees into Mexico

A  Near the Gulf of California

B  Near the Rio Grande River

C  Near the Grand Canyon

D  Near the Sierra Madres

A  Sun City

B  Scottsdale

C  Phoenix

D  Tucson

A  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

B  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

C  Stay underwater, using waterholes and rivers to cool down.

D  They sweat to cool down.

A  The leading maquiladora activity is the assembly of garment and textile products

B  Many of the world’s leading automobile companies operate maquiladoras

C  Per capita incomes in Mexico are highest in the state of Nuevo Leon

D  Since the founding of the first maquiladoras, the average number of births per woman in Mexico have increased

E  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

A  San Antonio

B  Las Cruces

C  Santa Fe

D  Albuquerque

A  At the end of the Mexican War, the total mexican population in the U.S. was around 82,500

B  One of the major PUSH factors related to Mexican immigration into the U.S. is widespread unemployment in Mexico

C  The first Spanish settlements were in the Upper Rio Grande Valley before 1700

D  The Hispanic population in New Mexico is centered in the northern parts of the state as opposed to the border areas

E  Spanish settlement of California began in the mid-1600s

A  They are able to hire Mexican workers for much lower wages than they would have to pay American workers.

B  These areas often have lax child-labor laws which allow workers as young as 12 to work in factories.

C  These areas subscribe to no country’s laws on pollution.

D  Companies in these areas have to pay no corporate income tax.

A  California

B  Texas

C  Nevada

D  New Mexico

E  Arizona

A  NAFTA established a trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

B  NAFTA was established in 1994

C  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

D  Mexican exports to the US and Canada decreased but imports from Canada and the U.S. increased

E  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

A  300 years

B  50 years

C  100 years

D  200 years