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42 Cards in this Set
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What is a narrow strip of land that joins two larger landmasses?
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Land Bridge
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What is the narrowest point of Mexico?
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Isthmus of Tehuantepec
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What is the lower region of California?
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Baja California
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What is the upper region of California?
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Alta California
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What is a piece of land with water on three sides of it?
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Peninsula
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What is the piece of land that stretches out and lies between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea?
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Yucatan Peninsula
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What is the mother range of mountains found in Mexico?
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Sierra Madre
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What is the capital of Mexico?
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Mexico City
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What is the flat center area of Mexico?
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Plateau of Mexico
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What is location north or south of the equator?
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latitude
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What is location east or west of the Prime Meridian?
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Longitude
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What is height above sea level?
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Altitude
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What is the altitude zone nearest sea level that has higher temperatures?
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Tierra Caliente
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What is the altitude zone known as the "temperate land" where the climate becomes more moderate?
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Tierra Templada
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What is the altitude zone that is very cold?
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Tierra Fria
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What is the fierce tropical storms that come with high winds and heavy rains?
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Hurricanes
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What word means Mexican cowhands?
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Vaqueros
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What are Mexican factories that assemble parts made in other countries?
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Maquiladoras
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What are small plots where farmers grow only enough food to feed their families?
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Subsistence Farms
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What are large farms that raise a single crop for sale?
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plantations
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Who are the people who lived in the rain forest of the Yucatan Peninsula and the surrounding area from about 250 AD to 900 AD?
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Mayas
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What is a form of writing that uses signs and symbols?
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hieroglyphics
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What is the word for wall paintings?
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Mural
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Who are the ancient people who conquered a large empire in central Mexico?
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Aztecs
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What is the capital of the Aztec Empire?
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Tenochtitlan
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What is an overseas settlement with ties to a parent country?
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Colony
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What do you call large Mexican ranches?
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Hacienda
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Who led an army of peasants in a revolt against Spanish officials due to the mistreatment of the people in 1810?
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Fr. Miguel Hidalgo
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Who commanded a rebel army in the efforts of giving back the lands, woods, and water that were taken away from the people by rich families, army officers and the Catholic Church?
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Emilian Zapata
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What is a government in which the power is divided up between the national and state governments?
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Federal Republic
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What city is known at the silver capital of the world?
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Taxco
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What do you call the public square area in Mexican cities?
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plazas
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What do you call dried clay bricks that were used to make homes in Central America?
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adobe
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What is the word for special occasions of celebration in the Mexican culture?
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fiesta
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What is the word for Mexican bands that play with traditional instruments such as the violin, guitar, horns and bass?
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Mariachi
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What is the special day of celebration in which families gather together in cemeteries to honor departed loved one's by laying down food and flowers for them?
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Day of the Dead
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What do you call an economy that is based on manufacturing?
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Industrialized
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What do you call businesses that provide services to people rather than the production of goods?
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Service Industries
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What opened free trade with out tariffs between the US, Canada, and Mexico?
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NAFTA
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What is the word for people who travel from place to place when extra workers are needed to plant or harvest crops?
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Migrant Workers
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What is the term for a thick haze of fog and chemicals?
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Smog
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What makes up the northern border of Mexico and the southern border of Texas?
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Rio Grande River
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