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174 Cards in this Set
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Water mediates temperatures because it holds warmth longer and warms up more slowly than land. |
True |
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Approximately wahat percentage of the topography of North America is mountainous? |
1/3 |
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Greenland was most recently a colonial possession of |
Denmark |
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Which of the following statements about the relationship between the United States and Canada is NOT true? |
Only the United Staes had an aboriginal population of significant numbers. |
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Perhaps the best known volcano in the continential United States, Mount St. Helens, is a shield volcano. |
False |
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Both the United States and Canada eloxcperienced bloody revolutions as they emerged fron their colonial pasts. |
False |
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The only part of the United States that experiences a truly tropical wet climate is |
Hawaii |
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Humid subtropical, Mediterranean and marine west coasts climates are best described as |
mesothermal climates |
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Basin and range topography is most typical of |
the intermontane west |
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Most of the most important esturaries in North America lie |
in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal pains |
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According to the text, the "landform" region identified as the "interior plains" includes parts of |
Great Plains and Great Lakes |
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The temperature of an air mass is usually determined by latitude |
True |
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The best known glacial features in the United States and Canada are |
the Great Lakes
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The arid and semi-arid climate of the Great Basin is due primarily to |
orographic precipitation |
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The "fall line" is significant because |
cities were often established at the head of navigation on rivers that crossed from the piedmont to the coastal plain waterfalls were often located at these points and could be harnessed for water power these falls formed "transport" transfer points where sailing ships had to stop because water from rivers entering harbors became too shallow all of the answer are correct |
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For purpose of the text, Michigan lies in the region described as |
Great Lakes/ Corn Belt |
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The region of the United States and Canada which includes ancient rock, older than a billion years, and some of the most important mineral deposits in North America is described as |
the Canadian Shield |
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A key organization in funding the revival of geographic education in the United States was |
the National Geographic Society |
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The picture of San Francisco Bay could be described as a |
functional region |
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Karst topography is most common in the Ozarks and Appalachians |
True |
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In North America, the area of temperate grasslands corresponds most closely to |
the Great Plains |
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The Cascade, Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada ranges were formed through subduction processes |
True |
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The plate boundary between North America and Pacific plates called |
a transformed fault |
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One of the best types of soils for crop like corn and wheat is |
chernozem |
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Both the United States and Canada are "federal" systems, in terms of the distribution of power between the national and local governments |
True |
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Which of the following was NOT a major cultural hearth in the original thirteen colonies? |
New York City |
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The "metes and bounds" system of land survey was |
dependent upon individual settlers' selection of topographic features |
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Which of the following is NOT a major cornerstone of America geopolitics? |
lack of interest in or concern for countries in the rest of the Americas |
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Which of the following is NOT defined as a "primary economic activity"? |
tourism |
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Dutch settlement in the New World was primarily confined to the present day state of |
New York |
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Tertary sector employment is relatively evenly distributed across North America |
True |
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
was strongly supported by people living in Sun Belt states called for the free movement of goods between Canada, Mexico, and the United States was generally opposed by northeastern Democrats in the United States, representing union interests and minority districts all of these answers are correct |
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The 100th meridian was called an "institutional fault line" by historian Walter Prescott Webb because |
it separtes the arid west from the humid east |
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Which of the following occupations/ careers is NOT defined as a "quarternary sector activity"? |
physicians |
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The Republic party in the United States |
is the most important in traditionally rural areas as the Great Plains and Appalachia |
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Cajuns are descended from people forced to emigrate to Louisiana from |
Acadia |
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The greatest and most indeible impact on cultural landscape in North America during the first century of European settlement was made by the |
Spanish |
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Which of the following is the latest addition to territory of the United States? |
Alaska |
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"Cash grain" farmers are those who |
sell grain crops directly |
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The fastest growing cities in North America |
are located in the "sun belt" across the southern and western United States |
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The "set of economic and political institutions governing the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services" is defined as |
political economy |
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The traditional "manufacturing belt" of North America |
stretches from southern New England westward to the Great Lakes includes manufacturing centers such as New York, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago includes production of "heavy" or durable goods including automobiles, aircraft, heavy machinery all of these answers are correct |
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The impact of Native Americans and First Peoples on the landscape of the United States and Canada can best be seen in |
place names food preferences environmental attitudes all of the above |
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Southern and eastern European immigrants became important in the population of American cities |
after decades of the 1890s |
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As opposed to the Dutch, French or the Spanish, English settlement in North America had a powerful and more lasting impact on shaping both Canadian and American cultures Geographers have offered several reasons as to why this happened incuding |
English settlement included larger numbers of people than either Dutch, Spanish, or French settlements English settlers immigrated as a whole families whereas the first French and Spanish settles were men who intermarried with native peoples The English had experienced in colonization as practiced in Ireland All of these suggestions have been proposed by geographers |
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Both the United States and Canada utilized a "federal" structure of government |
True |
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The first towns and cities in the United States were |
seaports serving a hinterland of farms and villages |
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The primary reason that the productivity of individual farms in North America increases despite the decline in the number of people working in agriculture is |
application of technology |
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The Portuguese impact on the geography of North America is most visible in |
the legacy of enslavement of Africans, brought by Portuguese slavers to the Caribbean and South America |
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Geographer Wilbur Zelinsky developed a theory of "first effective settlement" which, according to Professor Zelinsky, meant that |
the culture which first settled a place had the greatest impact on shaping the landscape |
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The first exploers and settlers of the Atlantic Periphery were |
Norse traders |
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Region known as Megalopolis is bound by which two rivers? |
the Hudson and the Potomac |
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the most important element int he economy of Vermont is |
tourism |
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New Hampshire has become a focus of settlement by people from Megalopolis becasue |
the state enjoys no income or sales tax of its relatively proximity to Boston, just miles away of its relatively slower pace of live and scenery all of these answers are correct |
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Philidelphia |
was a planned city |
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"Outports" were |
were heavily impacted by "overfishing" on the Outer Banks |
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Which of the following statements about Megalopolis is incorrect? |
Tourism in the region has declined in importance |
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Northern Quebec |
is much more dependent than southern Quebec on prmiary sector economic activities |
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Which of the following statements about Washington D.C. is incorrect? |
The city has a relatively unimpotant African American population |
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Within Quebec, the people who most strongly opposed secession from Canada |
were members of the First Nation communities |
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Which factors help explain the declining influence of French speakers within Canada? |
the opening of western Canada to settlement |
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Which of the following Europeans groups were least important in the historical settlement of Megalopolis? |
French |
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Much of Quebec is unsuitable for agriculture because |
of its poor soil |
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Which of the folloeing factors is most important as an explanation for the rise of New York City as the dominant American city of Megalopolis? |
completion of the Erie Canal which linked New York with the interior of the continent |
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New York City proper includes five boroughs: Manhattan, Long Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens |
False |
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Which of the following statements about New York is incorrect? |
the city has declined in importance since the attacks of 9/11 |
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Most of the major cities of Megalopolis are located along the "fall line" |
True |
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The Canadian Shield |
contains some of the oldest rock on the North American continent is made up of flat to rolling terrain was heavily glaciated during the last Ice Age all of these answers are correct |
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Primary sector activities which are important in the economy od Quebec include |
forestry and logging |
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Which of the following is NOT a "pillar" of Quebecois nationalism? |
support of the cause of Quebecois nationalism by the political leader of France |
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The PA (Parti Quebecois) |
reinforced the ethnic and political divisions between Quebec and the rest of Canada |
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The people known as "Cajuns" originally desended from |
French settlers forced out of Acadia by the British in 1755 |
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When Britain defended Frand in the Seven Years War in 1763, the English took possession of Quebec. What factors explain the persistence of French ethnic identity after 1763? |
French citizens' desire to remain French instituional support of the Catholic Church high birthrate of citizens all of the above |
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Which of the following sectors of the economy are historically the MOST important in the Atlantic Periphery? |
primary |
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The climate of the "Atlantic Periphery" |
includes cool summers and cold, snowy winter |
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In the region of the Great Lakes/ Corn Belt the crop yields and agricultural intensity decline from North to South |
False |
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Which of the following factors account for the agricultural productivity of the Great Lakes/ Corn Belt region? |
fertile soil adequate rainfall government policy all of these answers are correct |
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The climate of the Inland South can best be described as |
humid subtropical |
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Which factors help explain the growth of Miami as a major metropolitan area? |
railroads, commercial aviation made the area more accessible the city emerged as a gateway for the Carribean and Latin America diverse and heterogeneous population all of these factors help explain the growth of Miami as a major metropolitan center in the Coastal South |
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Citrus production in the Coastal South |
is located in the Rio Grande valley of Texas, and Florida |
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Which of the following landform features is not found in the Inland South region? |
Canadian Shield |
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MIlitary activity in the economy of the Inland South |
became especially important during and after WWII developed because high percentage of military officers and enlisted personnnel have come from the region was promoted by the southern Congressman to spur economic developement in the region all of these statements are correct |
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"push factors" which encouraged people to migrate away from their areas of origin, in the case of African Americans at the turn of the century, included all but which one of the following? |
higher wages for manufacturing jobs |
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Neither tourism nor military activity plays an important role in the economy of the Great Lakes/ Corn Belt |
True |
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The Coastal South has become an important military center because |
of the relatively mild climate easy access to oversea transportation of the efforts of southern Congressmen and Senators to locate bases in the region to improve the local economy all of these answers are correct |
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The climate of the Great Lakes/ Corn Belt region is BEST described as |
humid continental |
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The primary landform classification of the Coastal South is |
coastal plain |
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The "Great Migration" |
led to emergence of Detroit, Chicago, St. Loius, and Kansas City as African American cultural centers |
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The large majority of farms in the Great Lakes/ Corn Belt are family farms |
True |
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Walt Disney chose Orlando as a site to build the entertainment complex, Disney World |
because ready land was available at the location in central Florida |
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A particularly important immigrant group in the Coastal South in recent years, particularly in the region along the Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Corpus Christi, are the |
Vietnamese |
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Migration which is based on migraton decisions of friends and relatives is known as |
chain migration |
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The most important mineral product of the COastal South region is |
petroleum and natural gas |
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North Carolina, like other Inland South states, |
is home to the fastest growning sports franchises in the country |
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Which of the following states is not located in the Great Lakes/ Corn Belt region? |
Kentucky |
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The first European settlement in the Coastal South was made by |
the Spanish |
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The Inland South became integrated into the great North American economy |
during the Great Depression as the New Deal brought federal spending region |
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The only important steel industry in the Inland South is located in |
Birmingham, Alabama |
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Memphis and Nashville are particularly important in the culture of the Inland South because |
of their musical tradition |
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
provided for the orderly admission of territory into the union from the "Old Northwest" on an equal footing with the original 13 states |
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The shift of the meatpacking industry to the southern plains can be explained by |
the availablity of low cost labor |
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The soild which support the "breadbasket" grains of the Great Plains are |
Mollisols |
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Areas of the Plains have experienced population loss which can be explained by |
outmigration of young people reduced birthrates high population of elderly all of these answers are correct |
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The vegetation of the Rocky Mountain region |
varies wih elevation |
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Denver |
is the Rocky Mountain region's largest and most important city was orginally overlooked by the builders of the Union Pacific Railroad lies near important deposits of silver, discovered in 1870s all of these answers are correct |
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Economically, the mist important climatic hazard which threatens the livlihood of residents in the Great Plains is |
drought |
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Today, the importance of the primary sector in the economy os the Rocky Mountain region has been eclisped by that of the teritary and quaternary sector |
True |
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The first Europeans to extensively live in and exploit the resources of the Rocky Mountain region were |
fur trappers |
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Which of the following are climatic hazards associated with the Rocky Mountain region? |
Havy snowfall Avalanches Flash flooding all of these answers are correct |
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The most important ethnic group in the growing population of the Rocky Mountain region is |
Latinos |
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Tornado Ally |
describes a region from northern Texas across Oklahoma into Kansas |
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Which of the folloeing primary economic activities has been LEAST significant in the economies of the Rocky Mountain region? |
farming |
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Which of the following Rocky Mountain cities is most closely associated with tourism? |
Sun Valley, Idaho |
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The largetst Superfund enviromental cleanup site in the United States |
lies near Butte, Montana derives from a copper strip mining operation resulted when heavy metals and toxic chemicals flowed into nearby rivers all of these answers are correct |
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The region known as the Great Plains gradually rises in elevation from west to east |
Falseq |
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one of the most important coal producing states in the United States is |
Wyoming |
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The water doctrine which is most closely associated with the Great Plains is that of |
appropriation doctrine |
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The most important city in the Canadian Rockies, and ont of Canada's fastest growning cities is |
Calgary |
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The most important crop of the Great Plains is |
wheat |
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The term, "steppes", is best defined as |
tall grass prarie |
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The Nebraska Sand Hills |
are the largest dune field in the Western Hemisphere |
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Which famous Indian leader's defeat signaled the end of Native American resistance in the Rocky Mountain West with the words, "I will fight no more forever"? |
Cheif Joseph |
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The Homestead Act of 1862 |
became law during the Civil War granted a quarter section of federal land to settlers who agreed to live upon and improve the property was promoted by the building of the transcontinential railroad all of these answers are correct |
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Which of the following minerals is LEAST important in the economics of the Rocky Mountain region? |
potash |
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which of the following locations in the Intermontane region is MOST impacted by orographic precipitation (rainshadow effect)? |
Death Valley |
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The Intermontane reion is a zone of continuous settlement |
False |
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At the Alamo |
General Santa Anna defeated an American force there in 1836 |
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Which of the following immigrant groups left a distinctive mark on the cultural geography of Reno, Nevada and Boise, Idaho? |
Basque |
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To predict the "spatial interaction" between two places, geographers analyze which of the following factors? |
complementarity transferability intervening opportunities all of these answers are correct |
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A "gateway" is best described as |
region astride two profoundly different cultures |
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The most common climate characteristic of the MexAmerica region is |
hot, dry weather |
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Places in the eastern end of MexAmerica include |
Padre Island, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville |
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Which of the following features are a part of the distinctive Mormon landscape of Utah? |
small villages, laid out with privately owned agricultural fields around them houses built in a Greek revival style planting of Lombardy trees all of these answers are correct |
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The appropriation principle pf water rights in the Intermontane region |
grants the first person to put water to beneficial use the right to use it |
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First Nations peoples in Canada experienced less conflict with the Canadian governments than Native people in the United States because |
western Canada was settled later than the western US and the buffalo had been depleted |
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In the MexAmerica region, agriculture |
is confined to the eastern and western extremities of the region |
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A high percentage of the labor force of the Intermontane region is employed in |
the teritary sector of the economy |
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Which of the following species is "endemic" in MexAmerica? |
saguaro cactus gila monster elf owl all of these answers are correct |
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Which of the following landform features is NOT founf in the Intermontane West? |
Coastal Plains |
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The region described in your text as MexAmerica is defined by a common physical characteristic |
uses a term first employed by Joel Garreau in his book, The nine Nations of North America |
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The major control climate and weather in the Intermontane region is |
elevation |
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Geometric boundaries |
are lines of latitude and longitude |
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"Maquilardoras" are best decribed as |
factories owned by US companies located in Mexico |
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The most important mineral resource in the Intermontane region is |
Cooper |
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The first non Native settlers in the MexAmerica region |
were Spanish settlers from Mexico |
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The earliest European-American peoples in the Intewrmontane West were |
miners |
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The North American Free Trade Agreement |
spurred manufacturing along the borderlands in MexAmerica region extended the "zona lines" to include all of Mexico and Canada went into effect in 1994 all of these answers are correct |
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The most important elements in the economy of Nevada are |
tourism and recreation |
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Native American peoples in MexAmerica region |
generally live in pueblos as settled agriculturalists |
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The climate of the Pacific Northwest is best described as |
marine west coast climate |
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The growth of California's population can be attributed to all of the folloing EXCEPT |
decline in agricultural productivity in favor of manufacturing and teritary sectoer activities |
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Seismic activity in California |
is associated with the San Andres Fault system |
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Spain consolidated it's hold on California by |
establishing a series of missions along the coast, beginning with the Franciscan mission in San Diego in 1769 |
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The Coast Ranges were caused by movement along a series of faults between the Pacfic and North American plates |
True |
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historians belive that the Native popualtion of California was the most densly populated of any region in North America in the pre-European period |
True |
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the city of Vancouver grew in part after 1846 because |
of it's proximity to the Fraser River Valley of it's port location the completion of the Canadian transcontinential railroad all of these answers are correct |
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The "Inland Empire" of Washington is an important producer of |
apples |
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The climate and weather of the Pacific Northwest are influenced by all of the following EXCEPT |
prevailing easterly winds |
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The computer software and hardware manufacturing cneter of California (and much of the United States) |
is concentrated in the Santa Clara Valley, also known as Silicon Valley |
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The most important landform feature of the region called the Pacfic Northwest is |
mountains |
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The Central Vallet was carved by the action of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers |
True |
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Between the Cascade Mountains and the Coastal Ranges, there is a long structural trough, including the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound |
True |
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Which of the following is NOT aproblem of agriculture in California? |
approximately 80%of farns in California are privately owned by small farmers |
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Seattle |
is home of Microsoft and Starbucks |
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One of the most important debates is the Pacific Northwest concerns |
environmental quality |
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The climate of much of California can best be described as |
Mediterranean |
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The first Europeans to visit the Pacific Northwest were |
Russian explorers and hunters |
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Which of the following "new" immigrants has been of particular importance in the Pacific Northwest? |
Russians and Ukrainians |
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The single most important factor controlling the development of much of California has been |
access to and control of water |
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The Sierra Nevada |
include the higest peaks in the lower 48 states |
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The capiatl of Alaska, Juneau, can only be reached by air or water |
True |
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Which of the folloeing products is NOT associated with California agriculture? |
corn |
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The automobile shaped the geography of southern California in all of the following EXCEPT |
the lack of ethnic pockets in major urban cities |
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Portland, Oregon |
was recently rated "the most livable city in the United States has incorporated solid environmental practices in land use planning is a major shipping point for wheat and other agricultural products all of these answers are correct |
