Geography US and Canada Exam 1 (Part 2)

The percentage of direct investment to Canada from the United States in 2006 was about:

61%

It is evident that manufacturing is an important economic activity in the United States through:

Articles of clothing, Items of preserved food, Residential structures, Means of transport and communication

What major Manufacturing Core city changed to manufacturing electronic components and machinery?

Boston

Urban forms are manifested by

Dense patterns of streets and buildings, Industrial centers, Retail clusters and wholesale clusters, Governmental complexes

The Manufacturing Core rose to prominence:

During the 1870s

Since a variety of activities are carried on in a city, interaction is stimulated between or within zones of the same _________

Function

Which of the following is NOT true about John Borchert?

His model for metropolitan growth was called the concentric zone model

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, cheap transportation was of critical importance to those moving iron ore to the coal fields in:

Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia

Borchert's Third Epoch was stimulated by the development of steel, which replaced

Iron rails

Which statement is TRUE about location of the Canadian National core?

It is located at the far east of the center of the country

A city's site relates to

Its soil characteristics, Its terrain, Its topography, Its access to water transportation

Which statement is TRUE about the separatist referendum of Quebec?

Nearly half of Quebec does not want to succeed

European immigrants generally passed through what large Megalopolitan port?

New York

The Erie Canal was constructed in ________ to permit freight to bypass Lake Ontario:

New York

Which Manufacturing Core city developed an extremely diversified industrial mix

New york

The Manufacturing Core of the United States includes all of the following areas EXCEPT:

Northern New England

The New York metropolitan economy has become dominated by what kind of industries?

Office

Within the interior core, the _________River crosses the interior plains for hundreds of kilometers before joining the ___________ River.

Ohio, Mississippi

Site and situation are clues to the __________ of the Megalopolis

Origins and growth

Which two cities are so different in industrial inheritance and urban character but now show indications they may be becoming more alike?

Philadelphia and Baltimore

The spread of urban population far beyond city limits also had a strong impact on rural activities in Megalopolis such as

greater number of people having to be fed by foodstuffs shipped in from rural areas, Tens of millions of people in urban Megalopolis began consuming agricultural products from across America and beyond, Table crops such as tomatoes, lettuce and apples came to dominate farm production in sections of rural Megalopolis, The production of dairy products increased

An increasing number of urbanites have minimized some disadvantages of city living by moving their residences to _________locations

Suburban

What is generally true about the population and economics of Canada?

The Canadian core contains the majority of the population and most of the economic activities

According to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, in 2000 the most dominant religion at the county level in the United States is:

The Catholic Church

The Manufacturing Core region of the US is bordered by or overlaps all of the following EXCEPT:

The Mississippi River

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the relative location of the Manufacturing Core?

The Mississippi River formed a barrier to east-west transportation

North American's manufacturing hearth is:

The Pittsburgh steel cities region

America's broad interior plains are nearly enclosed by zones of metallic minerals found mostly in all of the following EXCEPT:

The Sierras

In the United States, the Baptist religion is MOST prevalent in

The South

Which canal was built to bypass Niagara Falls?

The Wellands

The growth of the region was reflected in the gradual shift of transportation concentration as railroad lines began to spread across:

The interior Plains

In terms of quality harbors, what makes Megalopolis different from other cities such as San Francisco, Seattle, and Mobile?

The location of the harbors and their proximity to one another.

The Great Lakes connect:

The mineral-rich Canadian Shield and the fuel-rich Interior Plains

Bochert's Second Epoch was triggered by the development of:

The railway

Much of the basis for the location of the industrial capacity that developed along the southern margins of the Great Lakes can be attributed to

Their function as a natural accessibility resource

What occurs wherever rivers flow off the Piedmont?

series of rapids form, A series of small waterfalls are formed along a line tracing the physiographic boundary, A boundary known as the fall line is formed, A source of water power is created

The Great Lakes are interconnected with only _____significant changes of elevation:

Two

Which city was no longer large enough to absorb the burgeoning civil service population and the growing number of people needed to feed, clothe, and otherwise serve that population?

Washington DC

Which fall line city is unique in that its growth has followed directly from expansion of the national government structure

Washington DC

Which of the following was NOT one of the Manufacturing Core cities based on commerce and the financial exchanges it stimulated?

Washington DC

Borchert identified the Sail-Wagon Epoch as when almost all cities and towns were associated with:

Water transportation

The Mississippi River does all of the following EXCEPT

all of the above are correct

Which one of the following is NOT one of the significant aspects of the Megalopolis

A common mix of economic qualities

Which of the following helped solidify the Canadian core as the focus of Canada's transportation network?

Strong economic trade connections to Europe