Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Tourism

B  Education

C  Trade

D  Banking

A  Corpus Christi

B  Houston

C  Laredo

D  Brownsville

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

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

C  There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica

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

A  Lightning

B  Flash Flood

C  Hurricane

D  Tornado

A  Key West

B  South Padre Island

C  Fort Lauderdale

D  Galveston

A  The Great Plains

B  The Intermontane

C  The Gulf Coastal Plain

D  The Rocky Mountains

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

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

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

D  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

A  The Gulf Coastal Plain

B  The Basin and Range

C  The Rocky Mountains

D  The Great Plains

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

A  Military aircraft

B  The electric automobile

C  The atomic bomb

D  The computer

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

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

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  Shortnose sturgeon

B  Silvery minnow

C  Long-toed salamander

D  West Indian manatee

E  Vaquita

A  Petrochemicals

B  Beer and other beverages

C  Steel

D  weapons

E  Clothing

A  They are mostly Mexican-owned

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

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

D  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

E  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

A  America’s Longest Rivers

B  The National River List

C  The Official Texas River List

D  America’s Most Beautiful River

E  America’s Most Endangered River

A  Nevada

B  Arizona

C  Kansas

D  Utah

E  California

A  A suburban population

B  A very low population

C  A young population

D  An urban population

E  A small population

A  Drought

B  Tornadoes

C  Flooding

D  Earthquakes

A  Hepatitis

B  Cholera

C  Bronchial problems

D  Mosquito-borne diseases

E  Arthritis

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

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 trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.

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

A  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

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  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

A  Western MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

B  Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

C  Precipitation is fairly even from east to west.

D  Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.

A  Arizona

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

C  New Mexico

D  Texas

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

B  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

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

A  Scottsdale

B  Tucson

C  Sun City

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 American retirees into Mexico

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

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

A  Near the Sierra Madres

B  Near the Gulf of California

C  Near the Rio Grande River

D  Near the Grand Canyon

A  Scottsdale

B  Sun City

C  Phoenix

D  Tucson

A  They sweat to cool down.

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

C  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

D  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

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

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  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Arizona

B  Nevada

C  New Mexico

D  Texas

E  California

A  NAFTA was established in 1994

B  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

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

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  50 years

B  300 years

C  100 years

D  200 years