Geography Midterm

Tidal bore

A high wave caused by tidal flow

Smart growth

A period from 1950 to 1972 and 300 airports in Newfoundland were abandoned in favor of larger outports

Resource hinterland

A region outside the core that provides resources to the core

Milkshed

A region providing milk, to specific community

Exiled in 1755 the French speaking people who settled near the bay of Fundy, and New Brunswick were called

Acadians

The peninsula of Florida was a part of ________ 200 million years ago before it attached to North America

Africa

____ land is under pressure in megalopolis due to high land values and urban growth

Agricultural

When the gulf stream mixes with a labrador current, what happens

All of the above

Monadnock

An isolated hill of resistant rock rising above eroded lowlands

Hey spring that emits water due to underground pressure

Artesian Springs

Hey fee charge to use a plastic bag designed to reduce waste in generate income to improve the environment

Bag fees

Located on the Chesapeake Bay. This megalopolis said he has lost about 1/3 of a population since the 1950s

Baltimore

The two groups that have migrated and great numbers to Florida

Cubans and retirees

New York City became the Premier port city largely due to

Deep Harbor coastal positions, access to the interior, building of the Erie canal yeah

Which of the following is NOT a major environmental problem in Florida?

Dependence on imported fruits and vegetables

The population if Florida grew at ____ the national in recent years

Double

Ancient river mountains and valleys resulting from rising sea levels over the past 12,000 years

Drowned Rivers

Megalopolis cities were often built, following the old organic city, layout this has benefit of the cities today in which of the following ways

Emphasize the need for growth and sprawl

Barely above sea level this subregion was the last to emerge from the area

Everglades

The line where the coastal plain meets the Piedmont characterized by waterfalls in Rapids

Fall Line

Which of the following is not considered an environmental challenges in north Atlantic region?

Fragmentation of the landmass

The building of green Leed certified buildings has been enhanced because of

Government requirements for public buildings

The ______ or a series of raised submarine plateaus that are extensions of continental shelf and have relatively shallow water and abundant plant and animal life.

Grand barns

A hardwood and evergreen forest area that rises slightly above a flat plane

Hammocks

Resettlement

Hey, set of policies, governing transportation, and planning of cities away from sprawl in a favor and quality of life issues

Bay of Fundy

Highest title fluctuation in the world

Agricultural production in the Maritimes?

Include small, farmers, producing apples and potatoes, as well as CAFO's

Today the Everglades ecosystem:

Is endangered because natural flooding has been halted

Labrador is distinctive among territories in Canada, because

It is not a territory of Canada, but of Newfoundland

What is the largest in size and most industrialized city?

Jacksonville

The underlying cause for many Lakers and for the Lake District is

Karst

Brownfield

Land where the expansion redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous sub contaminants

The Florida keys were created by

Limestone and coral reefs

Prince Edward Island

Major agricultural and green energy area

A type of exposed fruit tree, or shrub that grows in title estuaries or salt marshes

Mangroves

40% of the nations office space

Manhattan

An immigrant Gateway city, that is also a Center of banking for central and South America

Miami

This tribe was one of the first to encounter Europeans, but their demise did not come from European diseases but a for for food trade system that reduce winter storage in allowed for starvation

Micmac

Before the quiet revolution in the 1970s, the largest city in Canada was_____ but after the quiet Revolution______ became the largest city.

Montreal and Toronto

Which of the following was not one of the three East Coast cultural hurts

New

Play the early decades of the 19th century coffee and woolen textile mills were dominate in

New England cities with the largest rivers

Which of the following is not considered a part of the Maritimes

Newfoundland

Cape Breton

Northern island of Nova Scotia connected by a causeway

Annapolis valley

Original state of Acadian settlement drained by British farmers in the 1700s

And economically segregated city, despite its imagineered design

Orlando

The largest city in North America during the 18th century was

Philadelphia Pennsylvania

______ what is the city situated in the 19th century to compete with New York for the Premier position in the culture population in trade?

Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The_______ is a New Jersey region of 650,000 acres and a low population density that has remained virtually intact due to its poor soils

Pine barrens

Cultural pre-adaptation

Possessing adaptable traits prior to migration

The landscape features of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket were largely due to all of the following, except

Precipitation patterns

At the founding of Canada, in 1867 which of the following was not part of the original British North America act?

Prince Edward Island

The largest city in the Narragansett basin is

Providence RI

The financial industrial hub of Canada has traditionally been in this province

Quebec

Well, there are Francophone pockets across the country. The province were French is the most spoken is.

Quebec

Residential Burrow with about 50% immigrants into airports

Queens

Many Florida beaches are

Re-nourish continually from dredge sand

One of the climate system characteristics has to do with the north Atlantic ocean, conveyor, part of the thermoline circulation this system

Recirculates, warmth and restabilizes weather patterns

Megalopolis occupies one percent of the continents, total land, but contains____ percent of the population

Seven

Maine's rivers played an important part in setting up industry in early America what nascent industries were important sources of developing maines water resources

Shipbuilding

A rounded depression in the landscape phone with an underground cavity collapses

Sinkholes

The major water corridor connect in Canada to the rest of the world is

St. Lawrence river

There is a part of Canada contain 60% of the people in only 2% of the land. This region is partially located along what river?

St. Lawrence river

The flat wood forests of the gulf coast eco region have declined because of all but one of the following reasons?

State and local park lands

Most suburban least populated of the boroughs

Staten Island

Collapse of the cod fishing economy is a stark example of

Strategy of the commons

The impacts of acid rain include

Stressing plants and deteriorating buildings

Once a center of cotton production today, the economy is driven by education and government jobs

Tallahassee

The economy revolves around phosphates, fisheries, tourism, and shipping port

Tampa

All of the following are true of Adirondack State Park except:

There are no people living in the park

How are Quebec and Ontario different today than when they joined the confederation

They were both Francophones

Mixed use development designed to be easily accessible by public transit

Transit orientated development

Sources of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay include all of the following, except

Trash from Pennsylvania and Maryland

The key is natural landscape is

Tropical forest and desert

Today, northern New England is a growing source of________, especially for the Megalopolis region

Vacation homes

The main reason fog is common place off. The Atlantic north east is:

Where are the golf stream hits the Labrador current

Halifax

eastern Canada, second leading Oceanport, and one of the largest natural harbors in the world

Everglades water management:

has drained much of the Everglades and is in short supply

The reason that Greenwich Village in childhood in New York City are not is built up as the Wall Street area is

Bed rock is too far below the support high rises

Most southern Floridians live

Between Miami and Palm Beach

A vegetated feature design to filter out debris in pollution in surface water

Bioswales

Most populous borough

Brooklyn

The 1879 national policy has defined the Canadian economy. What did it do?

Build and protect Canada's industry and goods

Historically the Premier religion in Quebec has been

Catholicism

What was the effect of the quiet revolution in Quebec? How did it change the province? What happened in 1995 in Quebec?

Church control declined

The loss of the Grand Banks cod fishery has been followed by several other fisheries closing worldwide. Reasons for the closure include all but one of the following:

Climate change

Newfoundland has recently become a "have" province because of the offshore oil production. However, the province in the rest of Canada suffered a terrible loss in the early 1990s because of:

Collapse of the cod fishery

Play metropolitan area, composed of surrounding metropolitan in micro Politan areas

Combined statistical area

Much of the Atlantic coastal areas or wants title swamps in wetlands they were originally cleared in order to

Convert to agricultural land

Soft limestone, composed of fragments of shell and coral

Coquina

By the mid-20th century main rivers, especially the Penobscot were:

Technologically, obsolete, and polluted

Only mainland borough

The Bronx

The region outline is one of the wealthiest in Canada for this reason, among others is known as

The golden horseshoe

The quiet Revolution in Quebec was a time that

The provincial government of Quebec placed the Catholic Church as protector of the French culture

After 1945, Florida became the number-one producers for all of the following reasons except:

Their concentration on naval oranges

Maritime influence

prevailing winds from the ocean, moderate summer and winter temperature extremes

Seniors who relocate to Florida during the winter months

snowbirds