Chapter 8 - Mexico

What is the practice of setting forests on fire in order to clear the land for farming?

• maquiladoras
• cash crop 
• slash and burn agriculture
• farming 

Which region of Mexico still has many features of the Native Mexican culture alive in it's ways of life and tourism places?

• Southern Mexico
• Northern Mexico
• Central Mexico
• Greater Mexico City 

Mexico's Central Region is Mexico's most industrial and richest region. 

• True
• False

a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler

• Smog
• maquiladoras
• Empire
• kingdom 

Smog is.......

• a mixture of chemical, smoke, and fog. 
• a foreign owned country
• a piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
• something that is good for you to eat

Expanses of farm or ranch land.

• insurance
• haciends
• cash crops
• inflation 

The Spanish people were trying to spread the Catholic religion to the people of Mexico, so they built ________ around the region. They were known as church outposts. 

• Mestizos
• maquiladoras
• missions
• haciendas

People of mixed European and Spanish decent. 

• haciendas 
• missions
• inflations
• mestizos

The Yucatan ___________ is a place in Mexico where water is surrounded on 3 sides by water. 

• peninsula
• mission
• inflation
• river 

In 1521 Hernan Cortes claimed the land in Mexico for?

• America
• France
• The indians
• Spain