Mexico - Physical Overview Flashcards
What is the Rio Grande River?
A river that serves as a partial natural border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Copper Canyon?
A very large canyon that is longer and deeper than the Grand Canyon of the United States?
What is the Baja Peninsula?
A very large 800 mile-long peninsula that is connected to Southern California and partly to Mexico.
What is the water called between the Baja Peninsula and mainland Mexico?
Either the Sea of Cortez or the Gulf of California.
What formed the Copper Canyon?
The San Andreas fault. There is a theory that this canyon is actually still forming today.
What is the Mexican name for the Pacific Coast?
The Mexican Riviera.
What is the Yucatan?
A very large peninsula in Southern Mexico.
What is Eco-tourism?
Eco-tourism is tourism that is focused on nature.
The Valley of Mexico, in the center of the country, is characterized by ___.
Earthquakes and volcanoes.
Mexico has mainly tropical climates south of the ____.
Tropic of Cancer.
