Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Tourism

B  Trade

C  Banking

D  Education

A  Laredo

B  Corpus Christi

C  Brownsville

D  Houston

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

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

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

D  There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica

A  Hurricane

B  Flash Flood

C  Lightning

D  Tornado

A  Fort Lauderdale

B  South Padre Island

C  Key West

D  Galveston

A  The Intermontane

B  The Great Plains

C  The Rocky Mountains

D  The Gulf Coastal Plain

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

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

C  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

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

A  The Basin and Range

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

C  The Great Plains

D  The Rocky Mountains

E  The Gulf Coastal Plain

A  Military aircraft

B  The electric automobile

C  The computer

D  The atomic bomb

A  Native Americans account for about one percent of the population

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

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

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

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

A  Long-toed salamander

B  Vaquita

C  West Indian manatee

D  Shortnose sturgeon

E  Silvery minnow

A  Beer and other beverages

B  Steel

C  weapons

D  Clothing

E  Petrochemicals

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

B  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

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

D  They are mostly Mexican-owned

E  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

A  America’s Most Endangered River

B  America’s Most Beautiful River

C  America’s Longest Rivers

D  The National River List

E  The Official Texas River List

A  Kansas

B  California

C  Utah

D  Arizona

E  Nevada

A  A small population

B  A suburban population

C  An urban population

D  A young population

E  A very low population

A  Flooding

B  Earthquakes

C  Drought

D  Tornadoes

A  Arthritis

B  Cholera

C  Hepatitis

D  Mosquito-borne diseases

E  Bronchial problems

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

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

C  NAFTA eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.

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

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

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

C  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

D  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

A  Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.

B  Western MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

C  Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

D  Precipitation is fairly even from east to west.

A  Texas

B  New Mexico

C  Arizona

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

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  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  Sun City

B  Scottsdale

C  Tucson

D  Phoenix

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

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 helped increase U.S.-Mexican border integration

E  It increased the flow of American retirees into Mexico

A  Near the Rio Grande River

B  Near the Gulf of California

C  Near the Sierra Madres

D  Near the Grand Canyon

A  Scottsdale

B  Tucson

C  Sun City

D  Phoenix

A  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

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

C  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

D  They sweat to cool down.

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

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

C  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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

A  San Antonio

B  Santa Fe

C  Albuquerque

D  Las Cruces

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Nevada

B  Arizona

C  California

D  Texas

E  New Mexico

A  NAFTA was established in 1994

B  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

C  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

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

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

A  200 years

B  100 years

C  50 years

D  300 years