1.
Which of the following two cultures blended to shape the development of Mexico?
Correct Answer
B. Native peoples and Spanish
Explanation
NGS 10A Compare the role that culture plays in incidents of cooperation and conflict in the present-day world, as exemplified by being able to
2.
Which of the following is expected to contribute to Mexico's economic prosperity?
Correct Answer
B. NAFTA
Explanation
NGS 10D.3 Predict how evolving political and economic alliances affect the traditional cohesiveness of world culture regions (e.g., post-reunification Germany and its economic effect on the European Union, NAFTAs effect on trade relations among the United States, Canada, and Mexico)
3.
The economies of Central America and the Caribbean are primarily based on which of
these two factors?
Correct Answer
A. Agriculture and industry
Explanation
NGS 5A.2 Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the Caribbean Basins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to a center for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a region of small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s)
NGS 18D.3 Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefits of tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of a diving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to put together a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location,
4.
Which of the following are the major groups of people that shaped the cultures of both
Central America and the Caribbean?
Correct Answer
A. Native peoples, Europeans, Africans
Explanation
NGS 10A Compare the role that culture plays in incidents of cooperation and conflict in the present-day world, as exemplified by being able to
5.
Which of the following countries has both the largest territory and population of any
country in Latin America?
Correct Answer
B. Brazil
Explanation
NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places
6.
Which of the following identifies the reason why the Portuguese brought Africans to the
colony of Brazil?
Correct Answer
A. To work on the sugar plantations
Explanation
NGS 4C Explain how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places, as exemplified by being able to
7.
Which mineral is nearest to Guadalajara?
Correct Answer
C. Zinc
Explanation
NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective
8.
What minerals are found nearest to Chihuahua?
Correct Answer
B. Silver and lead
Explanation
NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective
9.
Which of the following population groups changed LEAST during the time shown on the
graph?
Correct Answer
D. European
Explanation
NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems
10.
Which of the following time spans indicates the time when a mestizo population began
to develop in this region?
Correct Answer
C. 1565-1570
Explanation
NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems