Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Education

B  Banking

C  Tourism

D  Trade

A  Corpus Christi

B  Houston

C  Laredo

D  Brownsville

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

B  There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica

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

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

A  Tornado

B  Lightning

C  Flash Flood

D  Hurricane

A  Fort Lauderdale

B  Galveston

C  South Padre Island

D  Key West

A  The Rocky Mountains

B  The Intermontane

C  The Gulf Coastal Plain

D  The Great Plains

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

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

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

D  Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.

A  The Rocky Mountains

B  The Basin and Range

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

D  The Great Plains

E  The Gulf Coastal Plain

A  Military aircraft

B  The computer

C  The atomic bomb

D  The electric automobile

A  Native Americans account for about one percent of the population

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

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

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

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

A  Silvery minnow

B  West Indian manatee

C  Long-toed salamander

D  Vaquita

E  Shortnose sturgeon

A  Clothing

B  weapons

C  Petrochemicals

D  Beer and other beverages

E  Steel

A  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

B  They are mostly Mexican-owned

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

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

E  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

A  America’s Longest Rivers

B  America’s Most Endangered River

C  The Official Texas River List

D  America’s Most Beautiful River

E  The National River List

A  Arizona

B  Utah

C  Nevada

D  California

E  Kansas

A  An urban population

B  A very low population

C  A young population

D  A suburban population

E  A small population

A  Tornadoes

B  Flooding

C  Drought

D  Earthquakes

A  Hepatitis

B  Cholera

C  Mosquito-borne diseases

D  Bronchial problems

E  Arthritis

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

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

C  NAFTA eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.

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

A  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

B  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

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

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

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  New Mexico

B  Arizona

C  Texas

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

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

A  Scottsdale

B  Phoenix

C  Tucson

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 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 Grand Canyon

B  Near the Rio Grande River

C  Near the Sierra Madres

D  Near the Gulf of California

A  Tucson

B  Phoenix

C  Scottsdale

D  Sun City

A  They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.

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

C  They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.

D  They sweat to cool down.

A  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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

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

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

A  Albuquerque

B  Santa Fe

C  San Antonio

D  Las Cruces

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Arizona

B  Nevada

C  California

D  Texas

E  New Mexico

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

B  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

C  NAFTA was established in 1994

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

E  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

A  200 years

B  300 years

C  100 years

D  50 years