GCU322 Reading Quiz 6

Boston has one of the first beltways completed around a major American city, known as the Circumferential Highway, or Route _____, at a radius of about 12 miles from the city center (it is sometimes referred to as the "electronics parkway").

128

The New York-Newark MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area, or metropolitan area) has around _____ million people.

20

Within the District (of Columbia; in the Washington metro area), is the highest percentage of federal government workers in the country, which is about _____ percent of the District's workforce.

20

There are _____ miles of subway routes in New York City.

250

Precipitation is generally fairly high, with most of the region receiving between _____ inches annually.

40 and 45

Megalopolis has 52 million people, of which nearly _____ is urban.

90

Baltimore is still a highly segregated city; two-thirds of the census tracts are either more than _____ percent White or more than _____ percent non-White (mostly Black).

90/ 90

As the upstream end of the Hudson River axis and the eastern end of the low-level Mohawk corridor to the Great Lakes, the _____ area had major crossroads significance from its earliest days.

Albany

Most of the port of Philadelphia consists of imported raw materials, including petroleum (from both overseas and coastwise traffic) and iron ore (largely from _____ and Canada).

Brazil

The mid-Atlantic coast has a long history as a leading fishery for oysters and crabs, particularly from:

Chesapeake Bay

_____ do well in southern New Jersey in part because of the acidic, sandy soils.

Cranberries

Which of the following is NOT a leading beach resort in Megalopolis?

Delmarva Island

The _____ "River" is actually a tidal estuary connecting New York Harbor and Long Island Sound.

East

In the New York City metro area, the containerized cargo handling facilities of Port _____ and Port Newark are among the finest and most extensive in the world, and much of New York's general cargo traffic funnels through these facilities.

Elizabeth

In metropolitan Washington, one of the most rapidly growing counties in the US is _____ County, with a current population of over 1.1 million (out of 6.2 million in the whole metro area).

Fairfax

Moving from the Piedmont (of the Appalachians) to the Coastal Plain, streams flowing seaward will produce a rapid or small waterfall, and a line drawn on a map to connect these sites of rapids or small waterfalls is called the _____ Line. This is where harder rock (underlying the Piedmont) changes to softer rock (underlying the Coastal Plain).

Fall

In the Connecticut Valley there is a notable concentration of the nation's insurance industry in:

Hartford

Brooklyn occupies the southwestern tip of _____ Island.

Long

The Wall Street financial district with its cluster of skyscrapers is in:

Lower Manhattan

Within the Merrimack Valley, _____ is new New Hampshire's banking and insurance center.

Manchester

The Pine Barrens area in _____ has remained practically intact for several hundred years, mostly because of poor agricultural potential.

New Jersey

Wilmington, Delaware is considered to be part of the _____ metropolitan area.

Philadelphia

The Narragansett Basin has been hit hard by the drop in textile worker employment. The textile industry once employed more than half of all manufacturing workers in _____; it now provides jobs for only one-tenth of the total.

Providence

Philadelphia was founded on well-drained land near the confluence of the _____ and Delaware Rivers.

Schuylkill

New York City is arguably the most important city in the world in terms of:

economics and culture

The deer population in Megalopolis is now greater than it was in former times, and many areas actually have more woodland than they had a century ago, in part because of:

farm abandonment

_____ is the only borough of New York City that is on the continental mainland.

The Bronx

The most innovative approach to revitalization of Baltimore was _____ (i.e., buying an old house from the city for $1.00, provided that you renovate it and live in it). The practice began in the 1970s and lasted into the mid-1980s when it was phased out, in part because of a lack of more salvageable properties.

homesteading

In New York City, the three securities exchanges (stock markets) handle nearly _____ of the organized stock and bond transactions of the country

nine-tenths

Often considered the first planned suburban area in the US is Levittown _____ which started in 1947.

on Long Island

Comprising _____ percent of the continent, Megalopolis is a very small region territorially but contains 15 percent of the total population of US and Canada.

one

Daily activities in Megalopolis consume more than _____ of the energy used in the US, and generate an equal share of the nation's solid, liquid, and gaseous waste.

one-sixth

Connecticut was _____ wooded in 1850 and is _____ wooded today--and the trend seems likely to continue for some time.

one-third/ two-thirds

The remaining farms of Megalopolis tend to be efficient and specialized, emphasizing on the production of:

perishables

Atlantic City is now the _____-leading gambling town. Currently there are nine major hotel-casinos there.

second

The western boundary of Megalopolis is also the eastern boundary of:

the Appalachian Mountains

New York City is the number-one tourist city, and _____ is not far behind.

Washington

The Boston _____--the informal name given to the Central Artery/Tunnel Project--was constructed under central Boston to alleviate traffic congestion; it was completed in 2007 at an estimated cost of $24 billion.

"Big Dig"

_____ is a peninsula at the southern tip of New Jersey that shelters Delaware Bay from the open ocean.

Cape May

Fenway Park in Boston derives its name from fen, defined as _____ land.

low and marshy