World Geography Ch 10 Mexico

Maquiladoras

American factories on the Mexican side of the border

Landforms of Mexico

Baja California, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California, Rio Grande River, Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, Isthmus of Tehuantepec

physical landform -most of Mexico

Mexican Plateau

isthmus

Mexico narrows in the south narrow strip of land connecting 2 land areas

petroleum

Mexico's most valuable natural resource

South Mexico

Mexico's poorest region

2

Mexico's rank in size to other Latin American countries

11

Mexico's rank in world population

Sierra Madre Oriental

Mountains on the east side of Mexico

Sierra Madre Occidental

Mountains on the west side of Mexico

tourist sites in Mexico

Pyramid at Cholula Monte Alban Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

hacienda system

Spanish organized the ejidos into large estates owned by wealthy families and worked by peasants

borders of Mexico

United States, Rio Grande River to the North Pacific Ocean to the west Gulf of Mexico to the east Belize and Guatemala to the South

Greater Mexico City

capital of Mexico most important cultural region world's worst air pollution

North Mexico

closest ties with US fastest growing industrial cities

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

current president of Mexico

Spanish

dominant language spoken in Mexico

Central Mexico

historic core of Spanish settlement

1/4 of Mexico's population

lives around Greater Mexico City