Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Education

B  Tourism

C  Trade

D  Banking

A  Houston

B  Corpus Christi

C  Laredo

D  Brownsville

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

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

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

D  There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica

A  Lightning

B  Flash Flood

C  Hurricane

D  Tornado

A  Key West

B  Galveston

C  South Padre Island

D  Fort Lauderdale

A  The Rocky Mountains

B  The Intermontane

C  The Gulf Coastal Plain

D  The Great Plains

A  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

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

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

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

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

B  The Rocky Mountains

C  The Basin and Range

D  The Great Plains

E  The Gulf Coastal Plain

A  Military aircraft

B  The computer

C  The electric automobile

D  The atomic bomb

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

B  Native Americans account for about one percent of the population

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

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

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

A  Shortnose sturgeon

B  Long-toed salamander

C  West Indian manatee

D  Silvery minnow

E  Vaquita

A  weapons

B  Clothing

C  Petrochemicals

D  Steel

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 mostly assemble imported, duty-free components/raw materials

E  They are mostly Mexican-owned

A  America’s Most Beautiful River

B  America’s Longest Rivers

C  The Official Texas River List

D  America’s Most Endangered River

E  The National River List

A  Kansas

B  California

C  Nevada

D  Utah

E  Arizona

A  An urban population

B  A very low population

C  A young population

D  A small population

E  A suburban population

A  Tornadoes

B  Flooding

C  Drought

D  Earthquakes

A  Mosquito-borne diseases

B  Hepatitis

C  Bronchial problems

D  Arthritis

E  Cholera

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

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 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  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

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

D  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

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  New Mexico

B  Texas

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

D  Arizona

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  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.

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

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

A  Tucson

B  Scottsdale

C  Phoenix

D  Sun City

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

B  It increased the flow of American retirees into Mexico

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

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

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

A  Near the Grand Canyon

B  Near the Gulf of California

C  Near the Sierra Madres

D  Near the Rio Grande River

A  Sun City

B  Phoenix

C  Tucson

D  Scottsdale

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

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

C  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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

A  San Antonio

B  Santa Fe

C  Albuquerque

D  Las Cruces

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Texas

B  Nevada

C  Arizona

D  California

E  New Mexico

A  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

B  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

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

D  NAFTA was established in 1994

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

A  300 years

B  50 years

C  100 years

D  200 years