Mexico & Venezuela
  • 1. 75% of the citizens in Mexico live in ______ areas
A) urban
B) mountain
C) rural
D) coastal
  • 2. Most of the farmland in this country is owned by large landowners.
A) Mexico
B) Venezuela
C) Colombia
D) Bolivia
  • 3. Oil is the most valuable natural resource in both Mexico and Venezuela.
A) True
B) False
  • 4. Describe the geography of southern Mexico.
A) grassy plains
B) a land of dense forests
C) snow capped mountains
D) a high desert plateau with steep mountains on either side
  • 5. What is the most populated city in Mexico?
A) Cancun
B) Mexico City
C) Caracas
D) Acapulco
  • 6. Why have Mexicans flocked to towns located close to the US?
A) to work in the oil industry
B) to work in resort towns near the beach
C) to work in factories that are called maquiladoras
D) because there is good farmland there
  • 7. What is Mexico's most valuable natural resource?
A) oil
B) trees
C) maquiladoras
D) gold
  • 8. Why is farming difficult in Mexico?
A) cool climate and not enough sunlight
B) farming is not difficult in Mexico
C) too much rain, the ground is always wet
D) dry climate and little rainfall
  • 9. What mountain range is found in Mexico?
A) Andes Mountains
B) Alps
C) Ural Mountains
D) Sierra Madre Mountains
  • 10. What mountain range is found in Venezuela?
A) Andes Mountains
B) Alps
C) Pyrenees
D) Sierra Madre Mountains
  • 11. This country has a rainy season from May to November
A) Venezuela
B) Bolivia
C) Colombia
D) Mexico
  • 12. Where are the urban areas in Venezuela?
A) in the middle of the country
B) along the coast in the northern part of the country
C) there are no urban areas
D) along the southern border of the country
  • 13. What is the largest city in Venezuela?
A) Lake Maracaibo
B) Mexico City
C) Cancun
D) Caracas
  • 14. Which of these countries has the largest population?
A) Mexico
B) Venezuela
  • 15. Who supplies Venezuela with most of its food imports?
A) it doesn't need to import food
B) Mexico
C) Colombia
D) United States
  • 16. About 50% of the money that is earned by the government of _____________ comes from the oil business.
A) Colombia
B) Venezuela
C) Mexico
D) Bolivia
  • 17. About 80% of the exports from _____________ go to the United States.
A) Cuba
B) Mexico
C) Venezuela
D) the US doesn't import from countries
  • 18. How does the price of oil affect the people of a country that exports oil?
A) if the price of oil drops that means less money coming into the government and less money for the government to pay for things
B) the price of oil has no affect on the people of the country
C) if the price of oil goes up that means less money coming into the government and less money for the government to pay for things
D) if the price of oil goes down then that means more money will come into the country and the government will have more money to spend on its people
  • 19. Which is a negative result of Venezuela's oil business?
A) health care services have improved
B) pollution has damages the earth
C) Venezuela has an oil shortage
D) education has improved
  • 20. Venezuela is a very flat country without a variety of land forms.
A) True
B) False
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