Chapter 7 - Mexico

Two of Mexico's main ________ are Baja, California and the Yucatan.

• peninsulas
• plateaus
• mountains
• rivers

Mexico's 3 large mountain ranges are called the ________.

• Sierra Madre
• Rocky Mountains
• Mexican Plateau
• Valley of Mexico

The Aztecs acquired many lands and ruled over many people in their large ________.

• empire
• maquiladora
• mestizo
• conquistador

The children of European and Native American parents would be considered ________.

• mestizos
• maquiladoras
• inflations
• missions

The Spanish set up many ________ to spread the Roman Catholic religion throughout Mexico.

• missions
• maquiladoras
• peninsulas
• cash crops

After the Mexican Revolution, large farms called ________ were broken up by the new government and the land was returned to peasant villages.

• haciendas
• maquiladoras
• missions
• mestizos

One economic problem that Mexico faces today is ________ which results in an increase in prices because the value of their currency is decreasing.

• inflation
• recession
• depression
• impression

Many people in Southern Mexico practice either subsistence farming or ________.

• slash-and-burn agriculture
• sharecropping
• crop rotation
• cash crops

Many ________, like fruits and vegetables, can be grown in Mexico all year and are exported to the United States.

• slash-and-burn agriculture
• cash crops
• imports
• haciendas

In order to increase profits, US companies will build ________ in Mexico just south of the US border to manufacture their goods.

• maquiladoras
• missions
• haciendas
• mestizos