Mexican Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Sumidero Canyon with the correct year: The park was a candidate in ______ as one of the Seven New Natural Wonders of the World.
  2. Complete the sentence about Copper Canyon with the correct year: The Mexican Revolution, lack of funding, and the overall difficulty of building a railroad over such terrain hindered its completion un…
  3. Complete the sentence about Calakmul with the correct year: Lundell of the Mexican Exploitation Chicle Company on December 29, ______, the find was reported to Sylvanus G.
  4. Complete the sentence about Calakmul with the correct year: Morley of the Carnegie Institute at Chichen Itza in March ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Cuatro Ciénegas with the correct year: Several failed settlements were founded here prior to the successful establishment of a town by Antonio Cordero y Bustamante on 24 Ma…
  6. Complete the sentence about Isla Mujeres with the correct year: The first information available about Isla Mujeres is from between 564 and ______, when it was part of the Maya province Ekab.
  7. Complete the sentence about Revillagigedo Islands with the correct year: In ______, Martín Yánez de Armida, in charge of another expedition, visited Anublada and changed its name to Socorro.
  8. Complete the sentence about Revillagigedo Islands with the correct year: On 25 July ______, President Benito Juárez signed a decree awarding territorial control over the four islands to the state of C…
  9. Complete the sentence about Guadalupe Island with the correct year: The first known sighting of Guadalupe Island was in ______ when a Spanish expedition headed by Sebastián Vizcaíno sailed by but did…
  10. Complete the sentence about Tiburón Island with the correct year: Although the Seri name, Tahejöc, was first recorded by Alphonse Pinart in ______, its etymology is unknown.
  11. Complete the sentence about Tiburón Island with the correct year: In ______, three members of a U.S. gold expedition went missing, resulting in what is known as the Tiburón Island Tragedy.
  12. Complete the sentence about Tiburón Island with the correct year: On 25 December ______, one of the missing gold expeditioners' corpses was found, and it was confirmed that they had died from dehydrat…
  13. Complete the sentence about Chiapas with the correct year: In the pre-Classical period from ______ BCE to 300 CE, agricultural villages appeared all over the state, although hunter-gatherer groups wou…
  14. Complete the sentence about Yucatán with the correct year: Following Mexican independence in ______ the local Governor proclaimed independence.
  15. Complete the sentence about Yucatán with the correct year: Yucatán became part of the First Mexican Empire in December ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Yucatán with the correct year: Eventually on July 14, ______, Yucatán was forced to rejoin Mexico.
  17. Complete the sentence about Yucatán with the correct year: During the Porfiriato, in ______, the state of Yucatán was divided again to form the Federal territory that later became the present state of…
  18. Complete the sentence about Oaxaca with the correct year: By ______ BCE, agriculture had been established in the Central Valleys region of the state, with sedentary villages.
  19. Complete the sentence about Oaxaca with the correct year: The latter settlement is known for its small figures called "pretty women" or "baby face." Between ______ and 900 BCE, pottery was produced in…
  20. Complete the sentence about Jalisco with the correct year: The coat of arms for Guadalajara was adopted and adapted as the state seal since ______ with minor changes to distinguish the two.
  21. Complete the sentence about Chihuahua with the correct year: The city of Parral was the largest producer of silver in the world in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Chihuahua with the correct year: During the Mexican War of Independence, Miguel Hidalgo was executed on July 30, ______, in Chihuahua city.
  23. Complete the sentence about Quintana Roo with the correct year: Beginning around ______ BC, the Mayans transformed the area that would become Quintana Roo into an agricultural forest.
  24. Complete the sentence about Quintana Roo with the correct year: The Territory of Quintana Roo was created by decree of President Porfirio Díaz on November 24, ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Guerrero with the correct year: The modern entity did not exist until ______, when it was carved out of territories from the states of Mexico, Puebla, and Michoacán.
  26. Complete the sentence about Michoacán with the correct year: In ______, Morelia was declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved colonial buildings, pink stone cathedral, historic cen…
  27. Complete the sentence about Xoloitzcuintle with the correct year: A ______ genetic study using mitochondrial DNA found that the DNA sequences of the Xoloitzcuintle were identical to those of dogs from…
  28. Complete the sentence about Xoloitzcuintle with the correct year: The FCI, founded in ______, was not prepared to declare the Xolo an official purebred at that time.
  29. Complete the sentence about Chihuahua with the correct year: In a letter written in ______, Hernan Cortés wrote that the Aztecs raised and sold little dogs as food.
  30. Complete the sentence about Chihuahua with the correct year: The American Kennel Club first registered a Chihuahua in ______, Midget, owned by H.
  31. Complete the sentence about Chihuahua with the correct year: In ______ The Kennel Club of Great Britain amended its breed standard to disqualify merle dogs because of the health risks associated with…
  32. Complete the sentence about Monarch butterfly with the correct year: The species was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae of ______ and placed in the genus Papilio.
  33. Complete the sentence about Monarch butterfly with the correct year: In ______, Jan Krzysztof Kluk used the monarch as the type species for a new genus, Danaus.
  34. Complete the sentence about Monarch butterfly with the correct year: In ______, entomologist Samuel Hubbard Scudder suggested naming the butterfly "The Monarch".
  35. Complete the sentence about Jaguar with the correct year: In ______, Carl Linnaeus described the jaguar in his work Systema Naturae and gave it the scientific name Felis onca.
  36. Complete the sentence about Jaguar with the correct year: In ______, Reginald Innes Pocock recognized eight subspecies based on the geographic origins and skull morphology of these specimens.
  37. Complete the sentence about Mexican gray wolf with the correct year: After being listed officially under the Endangered Species Act in ______, both the United States and Mexico collaborated to capture…
  38. Complete the sentence about Mexican gray wolf with the correct year: The Mexican wolf was first described as a distinct subspecies in ______ by Edward Nelson and Edward Goldman on account of its small…
  39. Complete the sentence about Mexican gray wolf with the correct year: In ______, a literature review of previous studies was undertaken by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
  40. Complete the sentence about Agave with the correct year: The genus Agave was erected by Carl Linnaeus in ______, initially with four species.
  41. Complete the sentence about Nopal with the correct year: In ______, the same insect was successfully used in Australia to control the quickly growing population of cactus, which had become an invasive…
  42. Complete the sentence about Saguaro with the correct year: In ______, Saguaro National Park, near Tucson, Arizona, was designated to help protect this species and its habitat.
  43. Complete the sentence about Mexican wolf with the correct year: In ______, a study looked at the limb morphology of modern and fossil North American wolves.
  44. Complete the sentence about Mexico–United States border with the correct year: The Boundary Treaty of ______ between Mexico and the U.S. settled all outstanding boundary disputes and uncertainties rel…
  45. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The site known as Llanos de Balbuena has been used for aviation since ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Benito Juárez International Airport with the correct year: In ______, the site opened as Balbuena Military Airport, equipped with five runways.
  47. Complete the sentence about Cancún International Airport with the correct year: The airport's inaugural commercial flight occurred on May 12, ______, prompting an immediate increase in international t…
  48. Complete the sentence about Cancún International Airport with the correct year: MAYAir, established in ______ initially as a charter airline, expanded its routes from Cancun to various destinations in…
  49. Complete the sentence about Guadalajara Airport with the correct year: Guadalajara Airport was inaugurated on March 1, ______, featuring two asphalt runways, an apron, and a small passenger terminal.
  50. Complete the sentence about Guadalajara Airport with the correct year: The airport was reinaugurated as the new Miguel Hidalgo International Airport in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence with the correct year: As part of this initiative, a Maintenance Base was inaugurated in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Tequila, Jalisco with the correct year: The coat of arms of the municipality was officially adopted on 31 December ______ by the municipal council.
  53. Complete the sentence about Tequila, Jalisco with the correct year: In ______, indigenous people in various parts of Nueva Galicia revolted against Spanish rule.
  54. Complete the sentence about Tlaxcala with the correct year: After Mexican Independence, Tlaxcala was declared a federal territory, until ______ when it was admitted as a state of the federation.
  55. Complete the sentence about Sayulita with the correct year: In ______, the livestock were sold and the land donated to the port workers with the intention to continue producing, leading to the formati…
  56. Complete the sentence about Sayulita with the correct year: In ______ the La Varas-Puerto Vallarta highway was built, which helped inaugurate tourism into the region.
  57. Complete the sentence about Bacalar with the correct year: In ______ Gaspar Pacheco established the Spanish town here with the name Salamanca de Bacalar with the help of Juan de la Cámara.
  58. Complete the sentence about Bacalar with the correct year: After pirates sacked the town in the 17th century, the Fortress de San Felipe Bacalar was completed in ______, and may be visited today.
  59. Complete the sentence about Bacalar with the correct year: In ______, during the Caste War of Yucatán, rebellious Chan Santa Cruz Maya conquered the town.
  60. Complete the sentence about Valladolid, Yucatán with the correct year: On August 30, ______, Valladolid became part of the Pueblos Mágicos promotional initiative led by the federal Secretariat of Tour…
  61. Complete the sentence about Valladolid, Yucatán with the correct year: In ______, there was another revolt by local Maya; the rebels killed a number of town officials who had taken refuge in the cathe…
  62. Complete the sentence about Valladolid, Yucatán with the correct year: In January ______, the native Mayas rioted again, killing some eighty whites and sacking their houses.
  63. Complete the sentence about Izamal with the correct year: Completed in ______, the open atrium of the Monastery is still today second in size only to that at the Vatican.
  64. Complete the sentence about Izamal with the correct year: The town of Izamal was first granted the status of city by the government of Yucatán on 4 December ______.
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Guadalajara? Guadalajara has the second-highest population density in Mexico with over 10,361 people per km, surpassed only by ______.
  66. Which place completes this sentence about León, Guanajuato? In the 13th century, the Chichimecas, mostly of the Guamare and Guachichil subgroups, overran the area, migrating from an area of what is no…
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Veracruz, Veracruz? During the colonial period, this city had the largest mercantile class and was at times wealthier than the capital, ______.
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Cuernavaca? The city is located south of ______, reachable via a 90-minute drive along the Federal Highway 95D.
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Campeche? Campeche, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche, is one of the 31 states which, with ______, make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico…
  70. Which place completes this sentence about Campeche? Campeche was part of the province of Yucatán, but split off in the mid-19th century, mostly due to political friction with the city of ______.
  71. Which place completes this sentence about Puerto Vallarta? Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the ______ metropolitan area.
  72. Which place completes this sentence about Cabo San Lucas? The actual founder of Cabo San Lucas was Cipriano Ceseña in 1788 who arrived from ______, Sonora.
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Chichen Itza? The archeological site is located in Tinúm Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico, between the cities of Valladolid and ______.
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Uxmal? Uxmal is located 62 km south of ______, capital of Yucatán state in Mexico.
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Chapala? The city of ______ has relied on Lake Chapala as a principal source of water since the 1950s.
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Isla Mujeres? Since the 1970s, along with nearby ______ and its Hotel Zone, there has been substantial tourist development in Isla Mujeres.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Tiburón Island? Tiburón Island is part of the Mexican state of Sonora, as well as the ______ Municipality, and is located at approximately the same latitude a…
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Tiburón Island? During the 1960s and early 1970s, a small hunting and fishing camp on the northern end of the island was operated by Jesus Olivas, a resident…
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Veracruz? In addition to Xalapa-Enríquez, the state's largest cities include Boca Del Río, Coatzacoalcos, Córdoba, Minatitlán, Orizaba, Poza Rica, and ______.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Jalisco? Jalisco is divided into 125 municipalities, and its capital and largest city is ______.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Jalisco? Economically, it is ranked third in the country, with industries centered in the ______ metropolitan area, the third largest metropolitan area in Mex…
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Jalisco? The coat of arms for ______ was adopted and adapted as the state seal since 1989 with minor changes to distinguish the two.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Chihuahua? The state was named after its capital city, Chihuahua City; the largest city is ______.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Guerrero? The modern entity did not exist until 1849, when it was carved out of territories from the states of Mexico, ______, and Michoacán.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Michoacán? In 1991, ______ was declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved colonial buildings, pink stone cathedral, historic center, and aq…
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Puebla? Dividing much of the state from ______ is a small chain of mountains called the Sierra Madre del Golfo.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Mexico–United States border? One definition of Northern Mexico includes only the six Mexican states that border the U.S.: Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila…
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Mexico–United States border? Among the states in Mexico, Chihuahua has the longest border with the U.S., while Nuevo ______ has the shortest.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Real de Catorce? Later on June 9, 2001 it was declared as a National Sacred Site under the State of ______'s Natural Protection act.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Cholula, Puebla? The city of Cholula is located just west of the state capital of ______ and is part of its metropolitan area.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Izamal? Izamal was the first seat of the Bishops of Yucatán before they were moved to ______.

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