1. Mexico Test Review Jeopardy
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3. Vocabulary 100
What does it mean when someone from a particular area claims to be indigenous?
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4. Vocabulary 200
What are remittances?
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5. Vocabulary 300
What is the PRI?
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6. Vocabulary 400
What is a conquistador?
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7. Vocabulary 500 What does it mean to be part of a free-market economy?
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8. Culture 100
What is the large market type area called where many people get their goods from?
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9. Culture 200
Why are the majority of Mexicans Roman Catholic?
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10. Culture 300
How do subsistence farmers and people living on small farms get food for their families?
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11. Culture 400
Why are many people moving from rural areas to urban areas?
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12. Culture 500
What is an ethnic group?
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13. Mexico City 100
How would Mexico City be considered a megacity?
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14. Mexico City 200
What major issue does Mexico City face because of the massive number of people that have moved there in a short amount of time?
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15. Mexico City 300
What major issue in Mexico City is made worse because of Mexico’s geography?
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16. Mexico City 400
What link does Mexico have with the ancient Aztec civilization?
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17. Mexico City 500
What types of problems does Mexico City face as a result of its rapidly growing population?
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18. NAFTA and Holidays 100
What is NAFTA, and what does it do?
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19. NAFTA and Holidays 200
What major thing stands out about the religious holidays that are celebrated in Mexico?
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20. NAFTA and Holidays 300 What does el dia de los Muertes celebrate?
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21. NAFTA and Holidays 400
What is Los Posados?
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22. NAFTA and Holidays 500
What important event celebrates the victory of the combined forces of the traitor Mexican army and the French. This event literally translates to, “the fifth of May”.
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23. Wildcard 100
Even though we refer to areas of Mexico and Central America as “Latin America”, what continent is Mexico really located on?
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24. Wildcard 200
Does Mexico have states?
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25. Wildcard 300
Why is the Central Mexican Plateau such an important feature in Mexico?
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26. Wildcard 400
Why do many people living in Mexico choose to emigrate and take their chances living in the United States?
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27. Wildcard 500
If I was buying computer parts from Mexico would this be an example of importing or exporting? Why?
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28. Vocabulary 100 Answers
This would mean that the ancestors of this person were the region’s original settlers

29. Vocabulary 200 Answers
Remittances occur when a family member has left the country to earn more money elsewhere to support their family. While they earn money in this foreign country they will send payments back to their families in Mexico to help financially support them. These payments are called remittances.

30. Vocabulary 300 Answers
The PRI is the Institutional Revolution Party and they controlled Mexico from 1929 – They gained control again in 2012 when Enrique Pena Nieto was elected president.

31. Vocabulary 400 Answers
A conquistador was the name given to the Spanish conquerors that explored and colonized the Americas during the period of Spanish imperialism.

32. Vocabulary 500 Answers
A free-market economy is one where individuals have a say in their economies. Producers and consumers work together to determine what should be made, how much of something should be made, and what the price shall be through supply and demand.

33. Culture 100 Answers
This is called a plaza and is found in many Mexican villages

34. Culture 200 Answers
The majority of Mexicans are Roman Catholic because this was the major religion of the Spanish conquerors. When Mexico was colonized the Spanish brought their religion with them and proceeded to convert many of the indigenous people through missionaries

35. Culture 300 Answers
Subsistence farmers and other people living on a farm would get the food for their family by growing it. Any other things that they needed could be purchased in a market

36. Culture 400 Answers
People are moving to urban areas because it promises a better life for them and their families. In an urban areas jobs are usually higher paying and are more available in the cities. In an urban area families also have better access to higher quality schools.

37. Culture 500 Answers
An ethnic group is a group of people that belongs to a particular group that can be characterized based on language, religion, culture, or any other cultural tradition

38. Mexico City 100 Answers
A megacity is an urban area with a population that exceeds ten million people. The population of Mexico City is around 20 million people, so it definitely exceeds that number!

39. Mexico City 200 Answers
Mexico City struggles with adequate housing. Many of the people that move their have to become squatters and may live in cinderblock homes, or homes that are made of pieces of leftover material

40. Mexico City 300 Answers
Mexico City is very polluted anyway, but because it is located in a valley smog is trapped until a major storm can move the smog out.

41. Mexico City 400 Answers
Mexico City is built on the ruins of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan located in the Valley of Mexico.

42. Mexico City 500 Answers
Mexico City faces many problems with pollution and a lack of adequate housing being the two biggest. As many people move into the city jobs are also becoming more difficult to come by.

43. NAFTA and Holidays 100 Answers
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement. It is a trade agreement that allows countries in North America to buy goods from one another without having to pay the tariffs, or taxes, that other countries exporting their goods to the US would have to pay

44. NAFTA and Holidays 200 Answers
Because Mexico is mostly Roman Catholic many of the religious holidays focus on events or features that are part of the Christian religion

45. NAFTA and Holidays 300 Answers
El dia de los muertes is a combination of Aztec beliefs and modern Roman Catholic beliefs and is a two day celebration of the dead.

46. NAFTA and Holidays 400 Answers
Los Posados is a holiday that celebrates the Christian figures of Mary and Joseph and commemorates their search for lodging before Jesus was born

47. NAFTA and Holidays 500 Answers
Cinco de Mayo

48. Wildcard 100 Answers
Mexico is considered to be part of the North American continent

49. Wildcard 200 Answers
Mexico does have states! Mexico actually contains 31 different states.

50. Wildcard 300 Answers
The Central Mexican Plateau is home to a majority of the people in the country and contains the best farmland. This makes it a very desirable place to live

51. Wildcard 400 Answers
People from Mexico come to the United States for a chance at better economic opportunities. People living in Mexico do not make as much money as people living in the United States so many people have chosen to leave Mexico and get jobs in the US. These people usually send their wages to their families to help them
make a living

52. Wildcard 500 Answers
This would be an example of importing because I am bringing something into the country that I did not produce
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