Geography
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- Gulf of Mexico
- body of water that borders Mexico on the east
- Plateau of Mexico
- large, flat center in Mexico's landmass
- service industry
- business that provides a service to people
- Mays
- early Native Americal people living in the Yucatan Peninsula
- fiesta
- a special celebration
- tierra caliente
- "hot land"
- migrant workers
- people who travel from place to place planting or harvesting crops
- maquiladora
- factory that assembles parts made in other countries
- mestizos
- having mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
- industrialized
- a manufacturing economy
- Guadalajara
- large industrial city
- Yucatan
- peninsula that juts into the Gulf of Mexico
- tierra fria
- "cold land"
- Sierra Matre Oriental
- mountain range in eastern Mexico
- mestizo
- person of mixed Native American and Spanish heritage
- land bridge
- narrow strip of land that joins two larger landmasses
- Sierra Madre Occidental
- mountain range in western Mexico near the Pacific Ocean
- haciendas
- large ranches
- tierra templada
- "temperate land"
- murals
- wall paintings
- peninsua
- land surrounded by water on three sides
- central region
- more than half of mexico's people live here
- Aztec
- early Native American people living in central Mexico
- Diego Rivera
- famous mural painter
- smog
- thick haze of fog and chemicals