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| Longest river | `Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte |
| Mexico City | capital |
| Major religions | Roman Catholic, Protestant Christian |
| Official Currency | New Mexican nuevo peso |
| Mexico | lies south of the United States |
| What country lies north of Central America | Mexico |
| Isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting tow larger andareas |
| valley | a stretch of lowlands between mountains |
| Plate tectonics | the belief that there is slow movement of Earth's plates |
| Earthquake | the shaking of Earth's surface from plate movement |
| Volcano | a mountain formed when hot lava rock comes from deep with in the Earth o its surface |
| Lava | hot, liquid rock |
| Jungle | a thick growth of trees |
| Peninsula | a strip of land surrounded on three sides by water |
| Rain forest | a thick area of trees in the Tropics where a great deal of rain falls |
| Tropical savannah climate | a climate that is hot year round and has a wet and a dry season |
| Altitude | how high above sea level a place is |
| Tierra caliente | an area of land in a low altitude with a hot average temperature |
| Terra templada | as area of land that is neither too hot nr too cold |
| Tierra fria | an area of land in a high altitude with a cold average temperature |
| Descendant | a person who is related to a certain group of people |
| Mestizo | a person who has both native and European ancesors |
| Offshore | off or away from land in water |
| Trade barrier | a law or an act that limits imports or puts special taxes on them |
| Sonoran | the largest desert in Mexico |
| Central Plateau | the largest region |
| Pico de Orizaba | tallest mountain |
| Popocatepetl | a mountain "Smoking Mountain" |
| Ixtacihuatl | a mountain as a "Sleeping Woman" |
| Cancun | eastern coast resort |
| Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco | western coast resorts |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe | Dec 12 holiday |
| service industry | tourism, banking and insurance |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| Oil | most important resource |
| Silver | world's leading producer of this |
| Foreign trade | money a country owes to other governments |
| Smog | a mixture of fog and pollution |
