Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Education

B  Tourism

C  Banking

D  Trade

A  Brownsville

B  Houston

C  Corpus Christi

D  Laredo

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

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

C  There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica

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

A  Flash Flood

B  Tornado

C  Hurricane

D  Lightning

A  South Padre Island

B  Fort Lauderdale

C  Key West

D  Galveston

A  The Rocky Mountains

B  The Gulf Coastal Plain

C  The Great Plains

D  The Intermontane

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

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

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

D  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

A  The Great Plains

B  The Basin and Range

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

D  The Rocky Mountains

E  The Gulf Coastal Plain

A  The atomic bomb

B  The computer

C  The electric automobile

D  Military aircraft

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

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

C  Native Americans account for about one percent of the population

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  Vaquita

C  Shortnose sturgeon

D  Silvery minnow

E  West Indian manatee

A  Steel

B  Petrochemicals

C  Clothing

D  weapons

E  Beer and other beverages

A  They are mostly Mexican-owned

B  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

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

D  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

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

A  The Official Texas River List

B  America’s Longest Rivers

C  The National River List

D  America’s Most Endangered River

E  America’s Most Beautiful River

A  California

B  Utah

C  Nevada

D  Kansas

E  Arizona

A  A suburban population

B  An urban population

C  A young population

D  A small population

E  A very low population

A  Drought

B  Earthquakes

C  Tornadoes

D  Flooding

A  Cholera

B  Mosquito-borne diseases

C  Arthritis

D  Bronchial problems

E  Hepatitis

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

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  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

C  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

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  Texas

B  New Mexico

C  Arizona

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

A  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.

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

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 northern part of the region where there is more regular precipitation

A  Phoenix

B  Sun City

C  Tucson

D  Scottsdale

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

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

C  It increased the flow of American retirees into Mexico

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

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

A  Near the Grand Canyon

B  Near the Rio Grande River

C  Near the Sierra Madres

D  Near the Gulf of California

A  Sun City

B  Tucson

C  Phoenix

D  Scottsdale

A  They sweat to cool down.

B  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

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

D  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

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

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

C  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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

A  Albuquerque

B  Las Cruces

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Nevada

B  New Mexico

C  Texas

D  California

E  Arizona

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

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

C  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

D  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

E  NAFTA was established in 1994

A  300 years

B  100 years

C  50 years

D  200 years