Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Education

B  Tourism

C  Banking

D  Trade

A  Brownsville

B  Corpus Christi

C  Laredo

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  Lightning

B  Flash Flood

C  Tornado

D  Hurricane

A  Galveston

B  South Padre Island

C  Key West

D  Fort Lauderdale

A  The Gulf Coastal Plain

B  The Intermontane

C  The Rocky Mountains

D  The Great Plains

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

D  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

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

B  The Great Plains

C  The Rocky Mountains

D  The Gulf Coastal Plain

E  The Basin and Range

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

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

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

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

A  Long-toed salamander

B  Vaquita

C  West Indian manatee

D  Silvery minnow

E  Shortnose sturgeon

A  weapons

B  Clothing

C  Petrochemicals

D  Steel

E  Beer and other beverages

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

B  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

C  They are mostly Mexican-owned

D  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

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

A  America’s Longest Rivers

B  The National River List

C  America’s Most Endangered River

D  America’s Most Beautiful River

E  The Official Texas River List

A  Nevada

B  Arizona

C  Kansas

D  Utah

E  California

A  A small population

B  An urban population

C  A suburban population

D  A very low population

E  A young population

A  Flooding

B  Tornadoes

C  Earthquakes

D  Drought

A  Cholera

B  Arthritis

C  Hepatitis

D  Bronchial problems

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 eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.

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

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

A  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

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

C  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

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

A  Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

B  Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.

C  Western 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  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

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

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

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  Scottsdale

B  Sun City

C  Phoenix

D  Tucson

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

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

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

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 Sierra Madres

B  Near the Gulf of California

C  Near the Grand Canyon

D  Near the Rio Grande River

A  Phoenix

B  Scottsdale

C  Sun City

D  Tucson

A  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

B  They sweat to cool down.

C  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

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

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

B  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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  Albuquerque

B  San Antonio

C  Las Cruces

D  Santa Fe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  New Mexico

B  Arizona

C  Nevada

D  Texas

E  California

A  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

B  NAFTA was established in 1994

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

D  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

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

A  300 years

B  200 years

C  50 years

D  100 years