GCU 322 READING QUIZZES 1-3, 5-6, 8- 18 PACKAGE (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY)

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 2 - Questions and Answers In very general terms, due in part to the Ferrel cell, we find wetter climates near the _____ degree latitude line. 60 Except for some relatively rugged hills, the _____ is a gently rolling landscape typified by many outcrops of bare rock and an extra...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 3 - Questions and Answers Modern freeways carry a large share of travel in most cities, permitting rapid movement at about _____ the accident risk of surface streets (per mile). one-third By 1920, the most flamboyant urban developments were in new cities far removed from the t...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 5 - Questions and Answers Montreal was a _____ and lumber-trading for the French, but its principal business and industrial growth occurred under the British. It was the largest city in Canada throughout most of its history, being surpassed by Toronto only relatively recently....

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 6 - Questions and Answers _____ is the only borough of New York City that is on the continental mainland. The Bronx 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...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 8 - Questions and Answers Southern hardwoods--oak, hickory, cypress, and gums--are in great demand for _____, veneers, and shingles, but one of its largest uses is in pallets for warehousing, and the shipping and trucking industries. Furniture Modern hog farms have sprung up i...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 9 - Questions and Answers The basic specialized secondary industry of the region is _____, which is found near the Gulf coast from Pascagoula to Corpus Christi. petroleum refining Shrimp trawlers take an average of _____ pounds of bycatch (unwanted fish) for every pound of shr...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 10 - Questions and Answers The human presence in the region dates to about 10,000 BCE. Over much of the Midwest, these prehistoric people are generally referred to as "_____ Builders." Mound The Shawnee chief Tecumseh tried to organize a Great Lakes-to-Gulf Indian confederat...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 11 - Questions and Answers _____ is the leading wheat producer in the region. Saskatchewan _____ has the largest known reserves of coal of any states, and is the largest coal producer in the nation by far. Wyoming The city of _____ is home to many significant defense corporati...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 12 - Questions and Answers The W.A.C. Bennett Dam backs up a reservoir for 70 miles on the _____ River and another 170 miles on two major tributaries, the Finlay and Parsnip River. Much of the power is transmitted 600 miles to metropolitan _____, the largest population concent...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 13 - Questions and Answers _____ National Park in western Texas best provides an example of the Chihuahuan desert in the US. Big Bend In central _____, steep-sided, flat-floored streamless canyons cut the local plateau into a maze known as the channeled scablands. Washington G...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 14 - Questions and Answers A gap between the Uintas and the main body of the Rocky Mountains marks the drainage area of the Colorado's major tributary, the _____ River, which extends northward into Wyoming. Only the gently sloping surface of the Great Divide Basin separates t...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 15 - Questions and Answers The basic characteristics of California's climate is abundant sunshine, absolutely dry summers, mild winter temperatures, and relatively dry winters. No other type of climate is so conducive to: outdoor living The Transverse ranges run east-west (he...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 16 - Questions and Answers Within the coastal ranges, the _____ Mountains mass appears as a complicated and disordered complex of slopeland. It is wild and rugged country extending inland to connect with the southern part of the Cascade Range. Klamath The influence of the sea ...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 17 - Questions and Answers The twin cities of _____ (in Ontario and Michigan--the twin cities have the same name) are at the crossroads of the east-west land and water route, and the north-south land route of the Upper Great Lakes. Sault Sainte Marie The northern floristic bou...