Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Banking

B  Trade

C  Education

D  Tourism

A  Laredo

B  Brownsville

C  Houston

D  Corpus Christi

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  Lightning

B  Hurricane

C  Tornado

D  Flash Flood

A  Key West

B  South Padre Island

C  Fort Lauderdale

D  Galveston

A  The Gulf Coastal Plain

B  The Great Plains

C  The Intermontane

D  The Rocky Mountains

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

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

C  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

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

A  The Basin and Range

B  The Rocky Mountains

C  The Gulf Coastal Plain

D  The Great Plains

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

A  The computer

B  The atomic bomb

C  Military aircraft

D  The electric automobile

A  Native Americans account for about one percent of the population

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

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

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

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

A  Vaquita

B  Silvery minnow

C  Long-toed salamander

D  West Indian manatee

E  Shortnose sturgeon

A  weapons

B  Clothing

C  Petrochemicals

D  Steel

E  Beer and other beverages

A  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

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

C  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

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

E  They are mostly Mexican-owned

A  The National River List

B  America’s Most Beautiful River

C  The Official Texas River List

D  America’s Longest Rivers

E  America’s Most Endangered River

A  California

B  Kansas

C  Nevada

D  Arizona

E  Utah

A  A young population

B  A small population

C  A suburban population

D  An urban population

E  A very low population

A  Tornadoes

B  Flooding

C  Earthquakes

D  Drought

A  Hepatitis

B  Bronchial problems

C  Arthritis

D  Cholera

E  Mosquito-borne diseases

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  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

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

C  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

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

A  Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.

B  Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

C  Precipitation is fairly even from east to west.

D  Western MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

A  New Mexico

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

C  Arizona

D  Texas

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

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

C  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.

D  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

A  Tucson

B  Sun City

C  Phoenix

D  Scottsdale

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

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

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

D  It increased the flow of American retirees into Mexico

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

A  Near the Rio Grande River

B  Near the Gulf of California

C  Near the Grand Canyon

D  Near the Sierra Madres

A  Tucson

B  Phoenix

C  Sun City

D  Scottsdale

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

B  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

C  They sweat to cool down.

D  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

A  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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

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

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

A  Las Cruces

B  Albuquerque

C  Santa Fe

D  San Antonio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Arizona

B  New Mexico

C  Texas

D  California

E  Nevada

A  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

B  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

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

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

E  NAFTA was established in 1994

A  300 years

B  100 years

C  200 years

D  50 years