Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Trade

B  Education

C  Banking

D  Tourism

A  Laredo

B  Houston

C  Corpus Christi

D  Brownsville

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  Tornado

C  Flash Flood

D  Hurricane

A  Galveston

B  Fort Lauderdale

C  Key West

D  South Padre Island

A  The Gulf Coastal Plain

B  The Great Plains

C  The Rocky Mountains

D  The Intermontane

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  The Gulf Coastal Plain

C  The Rocky Mountains

D  The Great Plains

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

A  The electric automobile

B  The atomic bomb

C  The computer

D  Military aircraft

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

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

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

A  Vaquita

B  Long-toed salamander

C  Shortnose sturgeon

D  Silvery minnow

E  West Indian manatee

A  Steel

B  Beer and other beverages

C  Clothing

D  Petrochemicals

E  weapons

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

B  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

C  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

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

E  They are mostly Mexican-owned

A  The Official Texas River List

B  America’s Most Endangered River

C  The National River List

D  America’s Longest Rivers

E  America’s Most Beautiful River

A  Kansas

B  Utah

C  Nevada

D  Arizona

E  California

A  A very low population

B  A small population

C  An urban population

D  A suburban population

E  A young population

A  Drought

B  Tornadoes

C  Flooding

D  Earthquakes

A  Mosquito-borne diseases

B  Hepatitis

C  Cholera

D  Arthritis

E  Bronchial problems

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

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

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

D  NAFTA eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.

A  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

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

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

D  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

A  Precipitation is fairly even from east to west.

B  Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.

C  Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

D  Western MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

A  Arizona

B  Texas

C  New Mexico

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

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

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

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  Phoenix

B  Tucson

C  Sun City

D  Scottsdale

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

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

A  Near the Rio Grande River

B  Near the Grand Canyon

C  Near the Gulf of California

D  Near the Sierra Madres

A  Tucson

B  Sun City

C  Phoenix

D  Scottsdale

A  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

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

C  They sweat to cool down.

D  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

A  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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  Santa Fe

B  San Antonio

C  Las Cruces

D  Albuquerque

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

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

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 subscribe to no country’s laws on pollution.

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

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

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

A  California

B  New Mexico

C  Texas

D  Arizona

E  Nevada

A  NAFTA was established in 1994

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

C  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

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

E  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

A  200 years

B  50 years

C  300 years

D  100 years