GEOG 250 Quizzes Lessons 4-6
Around what year did a spatial shift in the location of manufacturing (the geographic component of economic restructuring) away from the manufacturing core to other areas of the continent begin?
1970
Although the Northeast megalopolis is dominated by urban areas, about what percent of the region is still devoted to farming.
20
Which of the following cities is not a fall line city? Boston Baltimore Philadelphia Washington
Boston
Which of the following cities was the premier flour-milling center in North America until the end of WWII?
Buffalo
What is the term used by social scientists to refer to the part of the city popularly called downtown?
Central Business District
Which of the following is the largest inland city in the U.S.?
Chicago
Which of the following cities is the major iron and steel port city of Lake Erie?
Clevland
Which of the following cities is the major automobile producing center of the manufacturing core?
Detroit
Canada's cultural and regional diversity is maintained in part by a _______ type of governmental political geography.
Federal
Which of the following is a situational characteristic of the Northeast megalopolis?
It has excellent natural harbors. It occupies a coastal location. It is in a good location for trade with Europe
In 1920, states in the manufacturing core east of the Appalachians were generally less engaged in what than the states of the interior core were.
Manufacturing
Which of the following cities, located in the heart of the Dairy Belt, is one of the leading centers of the continent's brewing industry?
Milwaukee
Which of the following cities is the urban-industrial center of French Canada and also the country's major eastern port?
Montreal
What major American city is located along the Delaware river?
Philadelphia river
Which of the following is an example of an "accessibility resource" in the Northeast megalopolis?
good routes to the interior
Which of the following is true of the importance of manufacturing companies as employers and contributors to national income since 1960?
Their importance has been steadily declining in the United States and Canada.
What is the primary characteristic of the Northeast megalopolis?
its continuous urbanism
Which of the following is the process that involves the merging of urbanized areas of separate metropolitan centers?
metropolitan coalescence
Rising property values in the Northeast megalopolis helped to
quicken the decline of farms in the region.
Economic activities such as those found in business headquarters or government policy forums are classified as which kind of economic activities?
quinary
According to your text, economic restructuring is largely the result of which of the following?
technological innovations
Which of the following describes the quaternary sector of the economy?
the collection, processing, and manipulation of information
Which of the following is a problem created by gentrification?
the displacement of low-income residents from their neighborhoods
Even if one day Quebec votes to politically separate itself from the rest of Canada
the economic integration between Quebec and Ontario is so extensive that it would likely preclude any separation of the economic relationship.
Which of the following was a major change in the industrial geography of New England in the last two decades of the nineteenth century?
the move of the textile industry to the Southeast
Identify the urban model devised by Harris and Ullman that describes how the automobile has generated intra-urban dispersal and has reduced the pull of the CBD.
the multiple nuclei model
Which of the following is not a geographic factor that helps shape the size and extent of the Canadian core?
Topography
Which of the following is Canada's largest port city on Lake Ontario?
Toronto
Which of the following is not one of Borchert's epochs of metropolitan growth? Auto-air-amenity epoch Walking-horse epoch Sail-wagon epoch Steel rail epoch
Walking-horse epoch
What is the single greatest reason many French Canadians worry about immigration?
What is the single greatest reason many French Canadians worry about immigration?
Which of the following is an example of an accessibility resource in the Canadian national core?
Which of the following is an example of an accessibility resource in the Canadian national core?
Which of the following has New York City's economy seen over the past few decades?
a decline in manufacturing jobs and an increase in service jobs
The fall line along the East Coast is found at the boundary of what two physiographic regions?
Piedmont and coastal plain
Which of the following cities' names was synonymous with steel throughout the first half of the twentieth century?
Pittsburgh
Canada's early economy was based on the export of __________ products, such as cod, furs, timber, and minerals, which had steady demand in Europe.
Staple
Where in Quebec are there few English speakers?
between Montreal and Quebec City
Which of the following is the term for the persistence of economic activities within a specific region after the advantages for locating in that region have dissipated?
locational inertia
