Mexican Geography and Nature

Climate, Wildlife and Resources

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The Tropic of Cancer crosses Mexico. What does this mean for its climate?
Each winter, millions of which insect migrate to the oyamel fir forests of Michoacan and the State of Mexico?
Why is Mexico called a megadiverse country?
Which salamander, native to the lakes near Mexico City, is also called the Mexican walking fish?
Which bird appears on the Mexican flag, perched on a cactus and eating a snake?
Which small porpoise, found only in the northern Gulf of California, is among the world's most endangered marine mammals?
The oil fields of the Bay of Campeche belong mainly to which state company?
Mexico has long been among the world's leading producers of which metal, mined at Zacatecas and Guanajuato?
Tequila is distilled from which plant, grown around the town of Tequila in Jalisco?
Which staple crop was first domesticated in Mexico thousands of years ago?
The cacao tree, from which chocolate comes, was first cultivated by which cultures?
Which large spotted cat, the biggest in the Americas, lives in southern Mexican forests?
Which large whales travel each winter to the lagoons of Baja California Sur to give birth?
The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second largest reef system in the world, runs along the coast of which Mexican state?
Why is Mexico City slowly sinking?
The volcano Paricutin, born in 1943, appeared in what kind of place in Michoacan?
On what date did the great earthquake of magnitude about 8 strike Mexico City in 1985?
The pads of which cactus are eaten as a vegetable in Mexico?
Which hairless dog breed is native to Mexico and linked with Aztec myth?
Which group of Pacific islands, protected as a natural World Heritage site since 2016, is called the Mexican Galapagos?
The Copper Canyon, a system of deep canyons in the Sierra Madre, lies in which Mexican state?
The Lacandon Jungle, the largest rainforest area of Mexico, lies in which state?
Which orchid pod, first cultivated by the Totonac people of Veracruz, became a world spice?
Which Caribbean island off Quintana Roo is Mexico's largest populated island and a diving centre?
Which giant cactus grows in the Sonoran Desert in north-west Mexico?

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