Chapter 5- Mexico
Quiz by Allison Hryadil
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Measure skills
from any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
With a free account, teachers can
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
22 questions
Show answers
- Q1Which of the following accurately describes the geography of Mexico?a land with rain forests and vast wetlands.a land with rugged mountains and a large plateau.a land with gentle rolling hills and vast fertile grassland.a land with numerous large rivers, lakes, and canals.300s
- Q2How would you describe the tierra tamplada?Its climate is good for farming and living.It is the land closet to the sea.It has hot summers and cold winters.Most of Mexico's mountains are there.300s
- Q3The Olmecs are known as...the civilization that conquered the Maya.Mexico's most powerful native civilization .the first people in the world to use a picture writing system.the mother civilization of the Americas.300s
- Q4What did the Spanish bring to Mexico?the Roman Catholic religionthe food known as the tortilla.the Nahuatl language.an accurate calendar.300s
- Q5Mexico's president____establishes government policies, proposes new laws, and controls the nation's finances.can serve as many terms in office as he wants.completely controls all three branches of government.plays a smaller role than presidents in other republics.300s
- Q6The __________ cleared the rainforest for farmland and built cities in what are now Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico.AztecsMayaSpanishOlmecs300s
- Q7The _________ built Tenochtitlan at the site on which Mexico City was later built.AztecsMayaSpanishOlmecs300s
- Q8What caused many people to move from the southeast of Mexico City in 1996?A great drought spread across the landAn earthquake devastated the cityThe volcano Popocatepetl eruptedA flood made the city uninhabitable300s
- Q9Mexico's two largest cities, Mexico City and ______ are located on the Plateau of Mexico.GuadalajaraBajaTikalTiajuana300s
- Q10In A.D. 1200s the Aztec civilization began when the Aztec people settled____on the Pacific coast of western Mexico.in the valley of Mexico.on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.in the rainforests of Belize.300s
- Q11In what year did Mexico establish a presidential democracy?1910189819171922300s
- Q12In the 1970s Mexico diversified its economy and became a major______textile exporterproducer of finished productsoil exporterlumber exporter300s
- Q13Mexico's largest physical feature is_____the plateau of Mexicothe Sierra Madre Orientalthe Rio GrandeMexico City300s
- Q14In which climate zone are most of Mexico's farms and people located?the tierra templada or "temperature land"the tierra fria or "cold land"the tierra caliente or "hot land"the tierra seca or "dry land"300s
- Q15The earliest civilization of Mexico was that of the ______MayaSpanishAztecsOlmecs300s