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World Regional Geography, 10e (Clawson) 

Chapter 2  United States and Canada

 

1) Which of the following is true about the United States and Canada? A) They each have about the same population.

1. They are handicapped by a lack of resource variety.
2. They house about 325 million people.
3. Their histories have nothing in common.

Answer:  C

 

2) The precipitation patterns of the United States and Canada include: A) two major humid regions.

1. one humid region extending across the southern United States.
2. massive humid zones throughout the interior.
3. a dry region in the southeastern United States.

Answer:  A

 

3) Which of the following land surface form regions extends from Massachusetts to Texas?

1. Appalachian Highlands
2. Coastal Plain
3. Blue Ridge
4. Interior Plains

Answer:  B

 

4) A major agricultural region that suffers from frequent drought is the: A) Corn Belt.

1. Great Plains.
2. southeastern United States.
3. North Central dairy region.

Answer:  B

 

5) The boreal forest is associated with: A) the western United States.

1. the Interior Highlands of North America.
2. the far northern edge of Canada.
3. a band across Canada from Newfoundland to Alaska.

Answer:  D

 

6) Soils, terrain, and precipitation make which of the following a most favored agricultural region?

1. the area from central Ohio to Nebraska
2. eastern Kentucky and Tennessee
3. the Coastal Plain
4. the Pacific Northwest

Answer:  A

7) Early explorers and settlers of Anglo-America came from all of the following European countries except: A) Spain.

Answer:  B

 

8) A condition that renders much of Canada unsuitable for agriculture is: A) the dominance of highlands.

1. the short growing season of high latitudes.
2. vast forest lands.
3. the limited population.

Answer:  B

 

9) Which of the following statements about the Canadian population is true? A) It is largely concentrated in the Maritime Provinces.

1. It is rather evenly distributed.
2. It is more concentrated in the St. Lawrence Valley and the Ontario Peninsula than elsewhere.
3. It forms a continuous east-west region from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Answer: C

 

10) African-American migration to urban centers: A) is a twentieth-century phenomenon.

1. was a post-World War II phenomenon.
2. peaked shortly after the Civil War.
3. has been important only since 1960.

Answer:  A

 

11) Which of the following may be a new cultural settlement core for the United States?

1. Muslim
2. Hispanic
3. Asian
4. Iraqi

Answer:  B

 

12) The United States population distribution exhibits: A) a massive concentration in the Northeast.

1. highest population densities in the South.
2. a single major population region on the West Coast.
3. a remarkably uniform distribution throughout the country.

Answer:  A

13) Several reversals in long-standing population growth patterns became evident during the 1970s, including:

1. rural areas experiencing increased outmigration.
2. central cities experiencing renewed population growth.
3. smaller metropolitan areas growing more slowly than larger ones.
4. the South experiencing a major net immigration.

Answer:  D

 

14) Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the Canadian demographic experience?

1. It has followed Malthusian theory.
2. It has been affected by migration to the United States.
3. It has not included post-World War II immigration.
4. It has led to a population only half that of the United States.

Answer:  B

 

15) The age group distribution of population in the United States in the year 2030 will most likely show:

1. a rather even distribution of population by age groups.
2. a disproportionate share of elderly age groups.
3. nearly 40 percent of the population in the less than fifteen years of age group.
4. little change from today.

Answer:  B

 

16) Which of the following statements is true of commercial activity in colonial America? A) It was based on manufacturing.

1. It was facilitated by water transport.
2. It involved only agricultural products.
3. It was not a motivating factor in early settlement.

Answer:  B

 

17) The Ozark Plateau and the Ouachita Mountains:

1. are geologic extensions of the Appalachian Highlands.
2. include the Columbia Plateau.
3. extend from Massachusetts to Texas.
4. are the largest continuous highland plains in the world.

Answer:  A

 

18) In the United States in recent years the greatest amount of water removed from surface sources has been for: A) the Erie Canal.

1. household use.

Answer:  D

19) Starting points for culture core areas that, through the diffusion process, created lasting imprints on the human geography of the United States and Canada included: A) Jamestown, Quebec, and Plymouth.

1. Santa Fe, St. Augustine, and Pittsburgh.
2. New Orleans, Detroit, and St. Louis.
3. Philadelphia, Savannah, and Wilmington.

Answer:  A

 

20) This European culture core was initially a destination for religious and political dissidents who preached thrift, hard work, and pietya combination of traits that helped the settlers to achieve agricultural self-reliance despite a harsh physical environment.

1. French Canada
2. Middle Atlantic
3. New England
4. Southern

Answer:  D

 

21) In this European culture core, wealth was accumulated from the cultivation of subtropical crops (tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton) that could be exported to consumers elsewhere in the Americas and in Europe.

1. French Canada
2. Middle Atlantic
3. New England
4. Southern

Answer:  D

 

22) What was the origin of the earliest European settlements in Canada?

1. English
2. French
3. German
4. Scots-Irish

Answer:  B

 

23) In the early eighteenth century, descendants of the Scots-Irish, Germans, and English came from this European culture core to carve out small subsistence farms as slaveless yeoman farmers, contributing traits that still distinguish southern Appalachia from the rest of the lower South (e.g., a population of small farmers that is almost totally white and Protestant).

1. French Canada
2. Middle Atlantic
3. New England
4. Southern

Answer:  B

 

24) Which one of the following groups contributed least to lasting cultural characteristics in the United States and Canada?

1. Native Americans
2. English
3. Europeans
4. French

Answer:  A

25) Which of the following best describes the agricultural system diffused from the Middle Atlantic culture core southward in the Appalachians and westward along the Ohio Valley into the Midwest?

1. A) plantations that produced subtropical crops including tobacco, indigo, rice, and cotton B) a mixed system of fattening hogs and cattle on Indian maize
2. dairying
3. off-season vegetable production

Answer:  B

 

26) According to U.S. geographer Wilbur Zelinsky, the colonial era of immigration into the U.S. was characterized by:

1. most of the European migrants’ coming from the British Isles.
2. the absence of Africans brought as slaves.
3. lasting from about 1820 to the present.
4. the “Great Deluge” during which over 26 million people migrated to the U.S. Answer: A

 

27) Which of the following industries is less common in the New York Metropolitan region? A) “smokestack”

1. printing
2. machinery making
3. high fashion apparel

Answer:  A

 

28) Since the 1970s, the manufacturing coreland of the United States has faced unprecedented challenges to its industrial pre-eminence.  The response to these challenges is called:

1. globalization
2. economic restructuring
3. unemployment
4. destabilization

Answer:  B

 

29) The United States and Canada have approximately five acres (2.0 hectares) per person for food and fiber production. This figure: A) is typical of most countries.

1. ranks below the figures for China and India.
2. represents an abnormally large food producing resource per person.
3. is not sufficient to provide food for other countries.

Answer:  C

30) In a developed country such as the United States, one can expect: A) service employment to surpass that in the secondary sector.

1. secondary employment to dominate the economy.
2. tertiary decline.
3. primary employment to stabilize near 20 percent. Answer: A

31) The period during which manufacturing was most basic to urban growth was: A) the colonial era.

1930. 1865-1930.
1931. the post-World War II era.
1932. the antebellum period.

Answer:  B

 

32) Trends in U. S. and Canadian agriculture during the past two decades include: A) stabilized yields.

1. decreasing numbers of farmers.
2. federal incentives to expand acreage.
3. decreasing average farm size.

Answer:  B

 

33) Irrigation systems are most common in: A) New England.

1. the Corn Belt.
2. the Great Valley of California.
3. the north central states.

Answer:  C

 

34) The largest single manufacturing center in the United States is: A) Chicago.

3. New York.

Answer:  D

 

35) One of the earliest and most industrialized regions in the U.S. or Canada was: A) New England.

1. Nova Scotia.
2. the Midwest.
3. the West Coast.

Answer:  A

 

36) Recent Southern industrial growth has largely depended upon: A) southern raw materials.

1. local markets.
2. the availability of labor and material resources.
3. federal intervention in the location of economic activity.

Answer:  C

 

37) Which of the following is true about Canada? A) It is rich in natural resources.

1. It is overpopulated.
2. It is a minor trading partner of the United States.
3. Its people are unconcerned about the “giant” to the south. Answer: A

38) Which of the following is true about Canadian manufacturing? A) It matured simultaneously with that of the United States.

1. It was aided by Canadian tariff policy.
2. It is based largely upon imported material resources.
3. It has been little affected by U.S. industrialization.

Answer:  B

 

39) The major Canadian aluminum industry is based on: A) Canadian domestic markets.

1. Canadian bauxite reserves.
2. utilization of hydroelectric potential.
3. inexpensive labor.

Answer:  C

 

40) The term “golden horseshoe” refers to:

1. the Southeastern Manufacturing Region.
2. a crescent of extremely fertile land in the Great Plains.
3. a regional concentration of Canadian industries.
4. a megalopolis.

Answer:  C

 

41) An example of a worker in the service sector is a: A) factory worker.

Answer:  B

 

42) The principle of comparative advantage leads to: A) regional specialization.

1. high production costs.
2. protective tariffs.
3. cheap transportation.

Answer:  A

 

43) The economic restructuring of a post-industrial society is often accompanied by: A) a loss of capital.

1. selective urban growth.
2. a shift from quaternary activities.

Answer:  B

 

44) Agriculturally productive land in the United States Northeast is: A) limited to the Connecticut Valley.

1. abundant, as was the case at the time of European settlement there.
2. the exception.
3. not located in river valleys. Answer: C

45) The one great advantage available to northeastern farmers is: A) proximity to markets.

1. abundant productive land.
2. river access to markets in the interior of the continent.
3. podzolic soils.

Answer:  A

 

46) Rostow’s takeoff stage occurred in the United States by the: A) 1840s.

Answer:  A

 

47) Eastward movement of goods from the interior by way of the Mohawk Valley and Hudson River promoted population growth in: A) Pittsburgh.

3. New York.

Answer:  D

 

48) Most of the workers in the United States and Canada are engaged in: A) industries that extract natural resources from the earth.

1. agriculture and construction.
2. government services.
3. the distribution of goods or the provision of services.

Answer:  D

 

49) What economic principle suggests that some locations are clearly better for the production of one or more items than other locations are and, therefore, if transportation is adequate for commercial exchange, regional specialization will result?

1. comparative advantage
2. drive to maturity
3. podzolization
4. multiplier effect

Answer:  A

 

50) Manufacturing enterprises in the United States that survive do so by: A) utilizing the residual labor force.

1. emphasizing capital-intensive technology and reduced labor requirements.
2. importing European workers.
3. employing semi-skilled workers. Answer: B

51) Which of the following regions in the United States has experienced a decline in manufacturing employment?

1. South
2. West
3. industrial coreland
4. none of the above

Answer:  C

 

52) New industrial jobs have a multiplier effect because they:

1. generate employment in the service activities that support the new employees.
2. increase employment in the construction industry.
3. decrease the number of relatively low-paying jobs in the tertiary sector.
4. increase the demand for agricultural products.

Answer:  A

 

53) Which of the following contributed to the success of agriculture in the United States and Canada?

1. an abundance of good land
2. a high level of mechanization
3. regional specialization
4. all of the above

Answer:  D

 

54) Which of the following statements about poor people in the United States is true? A) The number of poor blacks is double that of poor whites.

1. Poor people are nearly equally divided between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.
2. The majority of poor people live in metropolitan areas.
3. The greatest concentrations of poor people live in the southern United States. Answer: C

 

55) Poverty in the United States is: A) confined to Louisiana.

1. experienced by both rural and urban dwellers.
2. chiefly a Hispanic problem.
3. a challenge to the African-American people only.

Answer:  B

 

56) Which of the following statements best characterizes efforts to aid the Appalachian region? A) Highway development has been emphasized.

1. Outmigration has been subsidized.
2. New markets for coal have been developed.
3. The efforts can be described as successful.

Answer:  A

 

57) Which of the following areas has been severely affected by the declining need for coal miners?

1. the north central states
2. Louisiana and Alabama
3. the New England states
4. West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania Answer: D

58) The most numerous Canadian minority is: A) African-American.

Answer:  C

 

59) A part of Appalachia that is experiencing rapid industrial growth is: A) the Blue Ridge.

1. the Piedmont.
2. the eastern Kentucky coalfields.
3. the Nashville Basin.

Answer:  B

 

60) In which of the following southern areas has the African-American population always been small in numbers? A) the inner Coastal Plain

1. the Mississippi Valley
2. the Appalachian Highlands
3. the Black Belt of Alabama

Answer:  C

 

61) Most of the French of Canada reside in: A) Newfoundland.

1. Nova Scotia.
3. Answer: D

 

62) In the United States, African-American migration to urban centers has been: A) a twentieth-century phenomenon.

1. decreasing since shortly after the Civil War.
2. a post-World War II phenomenon.
3. important only since 1960.

Answer:  A

 

63) The percentage of the U.S. African-American population that currently lives in the South is approximately: A) 10.

Answer:  C

 

64) The initial distribution of the African-American population in the United States reflected the: A) distribution of the southern plantation system.

1. areas suitable for cotton culture.
2. major ports of entry for immigrants.
3. distribution of northern urban centers. Answer: A

65) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the Hispanic population of the United States?

1. It is the fourth ranking minority.
2. It has contributed a major cultural infusion to the Borderlands.
3. It mainly resides in rural areas.
4. It has merged smoothly into the mainstream of American culture.

Answer:  B

 

66) The French of Canada are mostly: A) urban.

3. indistinguishable from other Canadians.

Answer:  A

 

67) Which of the following is true about the Appalachian region? A) It has suffered from a lack of resources.

1. It has become a focus of federal efforts to alleviate poverty.
2. It has excellent agricultural resources.
3. It has little recreational potential.

Answer:  B

 

68) Canada’s poverty regions are primarily a result of: A) their distance from the Canadian heartland.

1. the clash between French Canada and English Canada.
2. successive waves of unskilled immigrants.
3. the decline of Canada’s forest industry.

Answer:  A

 

69) Excluding language differences, the key difference between French Canadians and English Canadians is:

1. political ideology.
2. a historical conflict between the French and the English.

Answer:  C

 

70) The level of poverty among Hispanics in the United States is now: A) greater than that of whites in absolute numbers.

1. significantly less than that of blacks and whites in absolute and relative numbers.
2. greater than that of African-Americans in southern cities.
3. as high as that among African-Americans.

Answer:  D

 

71) Which of the following is not true about the United States? A) It has a large area of plains.

1. Income disparity among regions is almost non-existent.
2. Appalachia is an economically depressed area.
3. Most of the population is not rural.

Answer:  B

72) Poor people in the United States:

1. exceed the number of poor people in California.
2. are mostly African-American.
3. do not experience material deprivation.
4. live only in cities.

Answer:  A

 

73) The Hispanic minority group in the United States:

1. is significantly larger than the African-American minority group.
2. includes most of the African-American minority group.
3. does not include whites.
4. includes both African-Americans and whites.

Answer:  D

 

74) The distribution of Hispanics in the United States:

1. exhibits a concentration in the Southwest that results from a long tradition of Spanish and Mexican influence.
2. results solely from post-World War II migrations of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans.
3. parallels that of African-Americans.
4. illustrates a strong concentration in the rural Southeast.

Answer:  A

 

75) A major problem in any dynamic and changing society is:

1. the slipping into poverty of groups of people who fail to modernize.
2. employment shifts from the primary and secondary sectors to the tertiary sector.
3. adoption of modernization by workers.
4. increases in per capita GNP.

Answer:  A

 

76) The fact that today most poor people in the United States live in large urban areas: A) suggests that they are located where they always have been.

1. is in sharp contrast to most of the periods of American history.
2. proves that descendents of Native Americans dominate the poverty rolls.
3. supports the thesis that poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon.

Answer:  B

 

77) Canada’s maritime provinces have long had income levels below the Canadian national norms because:

1. the area is occupied primarily by poor immigrants from southern European cities.
2. the people there depend primarily on subsistence agriculture for cash income.
3. it is an uninhabited region.
4. harsh environments and remote locations have limited development there.

Answer:  D

78) Approximately one-half of the African-American population in the United States is located in:

1. the rural South.
2. urban centers of the South.
3. large northern cities.

Answer:  C