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| A piece of land with water surrounding it on three sides. |
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| The mother mountain west range |
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| A high, mostly rugged region covering much of the interior of Mexico. It is surrounded by the Sierra Madre West and East ranges |
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| Spaniards called people of mixed European and Indian ansestory |
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| A land with different territorys and people under a single ruler |
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| Huge expanses of farm or ranch land |
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| How does Mexicos climate differ in different areas of the country |
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| Take Mexico Citys climate..its much colder than that what is found in the southern regions due to its considerable eleavation of 2,240 meters. Thats because of the plateau. There are also areas of lower elavation in the yucatan where there is tropical rain forest. |
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| How are Mexicos location, climate, and physical features also natural resources? |
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| They attract touists to Mexico. |
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| Name some of Mexicos natural resourses. |
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| Petrolium, silver, gold, copper, lead, zinc, gas, and timber. |
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| Who is Benito Juarez and why is he considered a Mexican Hero? |
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| He was a benevolent leader-opposite from Santa Anna. |
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| In what year did Mexico gain independence? |
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| Should we celebrate the 'day of the dead' as many Mexicans do? why or why not? |
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| I think we should because this day is a good day to realize in a christian stand point that our loved ones arent dead. they are up in heaven having an amazing time. |
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| What are the 6 groups of the scscs? (Spanish Colonial Social Class System) Put them in order. |
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1. Peninsulares
2.Creoles
3.Mestizos
4.Mulattoes
5.Indians
6.Africans |
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| What is the difference between substinence farming and commercial farming? What does Mexico have? What do we here in the US have? What kind of farmer are you? |
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| Substinence farming is when you farm for your personal needs and commercial is when you farm for money. I am a substinence farmer. |
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| A narrow strip of land connecting two large pieces of land. |
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| A strip of fairly big islands in the caribbeans |
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| A small string of islands in the aribbean Sea |
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| A chain or cluster of Islands |
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| Tourism to places having unspoiled natural resources |
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| A regional variety of language |
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| An organization owned by its members and opperated for their mutual benifit. |
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| Is there anything similar to the Cetral American Market in the US? |
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| When did the US give up control of the Panama Canal? |
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| In 1999 to the Panamianin Govnt |
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| who was touissant-l-overture. what country was he important to? |
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| The leader of the haitian revolution. he was important to haiti. |
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| what countries shaped the caribbean islands? |
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| Spain, England, France, Netherlands. |
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| What crop was the basis of the colonial economyon the caribean |
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| A mtn system made of mainly parallel ranges. |
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| What are major exports from columbia |
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| Who was simon Bolivar? how did he affect Venezuela? |
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| A venezualen military and political leader. he played a key role in hispanic-spanish Americas successful struggle for independence from the spanish empire. |
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| What are some of venezuelens major exports to the us? |
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| Who is the current venezuelen president |
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| Hugo Chavez (he has cancer:() |
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| A shante town in or near a city esp brazil |
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| part of the economy based on odd jobs that people that perform without govnt regulations thru taxes |
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| a strip of water that connect two very large bodies of water |
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| an ocean and weather pattern that affects the pacific coast |
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| a sudden over throw of a govnt by small group of people |
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| the ability to speak two languages |
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| a string of big cities that grow together |
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| in what climate zone is michigan located |
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| michigan is in a humid continental zone |
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| how are appalician mountain different than the rocky mountains? |
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| The rockys are rugged and the appalicians are smooth |
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| natural hazards map: name at least two reason why Michigan is a safe place to live |
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| we do not have hurricains and we do not have floods |
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| what was the first successful british colony in america and when was it settled? |
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| In what year was the Declaration of Independence written and why did this document show our fourfathers commitment to freedom? |
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| 1776. If we lost the Revolutionary War all of the signers would have been executed. |
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| where are different ethnic groups generally located in the US? |
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| Native American, African, Asian, and hispanic |
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| a territorial unit almost always an administrative division, within a country or state |
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| refers to the strong connection that people feel toward the region in which they live |
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| when did the vikings first come to Canada? and who led them? |
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| Leif Erikson led them in 1000ad |
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| What is the national capital of Canada? |
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| How is the province of Quebec difrerent than the other provinces? Is this a problem in your opinion? |
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| Quebec is different by its cultural history, which happens to be very French. I think that it can be a problem at times because they want to be seperated because they have such a different culture than us. |
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