Gcu 322 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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 (hence, transverse) from Santa Maria (near the coast) to the eastern edge of the _____ Basin, near Redlands. Just south of that eastern edge, across the San Gorgonio Pass, the Peninsular ranges run north...

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 shrimp caught. 10 Lake Okeechobee overflows broadly southward through the Shark River Slough in a channel 50 miles wide that maintains the natural water supply of the _____ and Big Cypress Swamp. Evergla...

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 in many parts of the country, but most notably in: North Carolina Tobacco now accounts for just a little over _____ percent of farm income in North Carolina, in contrast to 60 percent in the mid-twenti...

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. Fur Throughout the region, more than half the cultivated acreage is in _____, with oats the other principal crop. Hay "New France" was to be an agricultural colony, but throughout the early decades...

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 extraordinary amount of surface water. Canadian Shield The islands known as the Florida keys off the southern tip of the state are made of exposed fossil remnants of massive: coastal reef colonies Which of...

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 traditional urban centers. The most spectacular growth occurred _____, and similar trends took form in Florida, Texas, the desert Southwest, and on the prairie edge of the Rockies (Colorado and Alberta...

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 in _____; it now provides jobs for only one-tenth of the total. Providence The _____ "River" is actually a tidal estuary connecting New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. East There are _____ miles...

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 18 - Questions and Answers Along the east coast of three islands (_____) and Labrador are innumerable fjords, some of which penetrate inland for more than 50 miles. Ellesmere, Devon, Baffin Precipitation is light and varies over much of the region from _____ inches annually. 5-15 For the Inuit people, dependence on _____ foods has dramatically increased the use of tooth decay and malnutrition; obesity has made its first appearance. Packaged Trapping in the Arctic Region ha...

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 Great Salt Lake is a remnant of prehistoric Lake Bonneville, a great body of freshwater that was as large as present-day Lake _____. Huron Vegetation in the Mojave Desert includes Yucca plants, various...

GCU 322_ Reading Quiz 17_ Geography of U.S. and Canada ( Fall - B) Arizona State University