Chapter 14 Test MexAmerica

A  Banking

B  Tourism

C  Education

D  Trade

A  Houston

B  Laredo

C  Brownsville

D  Corpus Christi

A  There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica

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

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

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

A  Flash Flood

B  Hurricane

C  Lightning

D  Tornado

A  Galveston

B  South Padre Island

C  Key West

D  Fort Lauderdale

A  The Gulf Coastal Plain

B  The Intermontane

C  The Great Plains

D  The Rocky Mountains

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

B  The Gulf Coastal Plain

C  The Great Plains

D  The Rocky Mountains

E  The Basin and Range

A  The electric automobile

B  Military aircraft

C  The atomic bomb

D  The computer

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

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

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

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

E  Native Americans account for about one percent of the population

A  Silvery minnow

B  Long-toed salamander

C  West Indian manatee

D  Shortnose sturgeon

E  Vaquita

A  Clothing

B  Petrochemicals

C  weapons

D  Steel

E  Beer and other beverages

A  They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses

B  They are mostly Mexican-owned

C  The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly

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

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

A  America’s Most Endangered River

B  America’s Longest Rivers

C  The Official Texas River List

D  America’s Most Beautiful River

E  The National River List

A  Utah

B  Arizona

C  Nevada

D  California

E  Kansas

A  A very low population

B  A suburban population

C  A small population

D  A young population

E  An urban population

A  Flooding

B  Tornadoes

C  Drought

D  Earthquakes

A  Bronchial problems

B  Mosquito-borne diseases

C  Hepatitis

D  Arthritis

E  Cholera

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

B  NAFTA eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.

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

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

A  Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico

B  East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas

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  Precipitation is fairly even from east to west.

B  Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

C  Western MexAmerica gets more precipitation.

D  Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.

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

B  New Mexico

C  Arizona

D  Texas

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

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

D  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.

A  Phoenix

B  Sun City

C  Tucson

D  Scottsdale

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

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

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

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

E  It increased the flow of American retirees into Mexico

A  Near the Rio Grande River

B  Near the Gulf of California

C  Near the Grand Canyon

D  Near the Sierra Madres

A  Phoenix

B  Sun City

C  Scottsdale

D  Tucson

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  El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez

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

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

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

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

A  Albuquerque

B  Santa Fe

C  San Antonio

D  Las Cruces

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

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

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

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

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

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  California

D  Texas

E  New Mexico

A  NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges

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

C  NAFTA was established in 1994

D  NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans

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

A  100 years

B  200 years

C  50 years

D  300 years