GCU322 Lecture Quiz 3 Answers Latest Update (Already Passed)
Americans have moved from rural areas and small towns not only to very big cities, but also to cities such as _____ (which is in the 250,000-500,000 population category), and _____ (which is in the 500,000-1 population million category)...
Americans have moved from rural areas and small towns not only to very big cities, but also to cities
such as _____ (which is in the 250,000-500,000 population category), and _____ (which is in the
500,000-1 population million category). Slides were shown in lecture of each of these cities. - Answers
Shreveport, Louisiana/Dayton, Ohio
Iowa was the last state to have a majority of its population in urban areas, which occurred in the: -
Answers 1960s
Which province had the largest population increase (by percentage terms) between 2011 and 2016
(which is indicative of longer-term trends)? - Answers Alberta
There are _____ US metro areas with populations of 1 million or more. - Answers 55
Since the 1950s, and especially during the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, many Americans left
the more populated northeastern part of the country and headed for the _____, an amorphous term
that encompasses the South, Texas, the Southwest, California, some parts of the Intermountain West,
and even places like Portland (Oregon) and Seattle. - Answers sunbelt
The _____, when completed (in 1825), "bypassed" the Appalachian Mountain barrier in many ways. -
Answers The Erie Canal
From 1992 to 2009, and again after 2016, a sizeable number of people moved out of _____ and headed
for other locations in the American West, but yet that state did not appreciably lose population because
of _____. - Answers California/ international migration
In North America there are roughly _____ people living in US for every 1 person that lives in Canada. -
Answers 9
It was during a 17-year period, from _____, that there was a massive increase in the number of paved
roads built in US. - Answers 1926-1943
The Pennsylvania Turnpike (built in the 1930s, and cutting through both the Appalachian Ridge-Valley
region and the Appalachian Plateau) originally had only 11 traffic interchanges (or freeway on/off ramps)
as well as 7: - Answers tunnels
Since the 1790 census, the geographic center of US population has continually moved _____ and slightly
_____. - Answers west/south
From the 1920s to the 1950s, a sizeable number of African-Americans migrated to the cities of the
north, as well as the cities of _____ in the west. - Answers Los Angeles and Oakland
Which province lost population between 2011 and 2016 (which is indicative of longer-term trends)? -
Answers New Brunswick
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