GSU 322 GSU 42344 Reading Quiz 3.pdf

Reading Quiz 3 • Questions 80 • Available Mar 12 at 12am - Mar 25 at 11:59pm Question 1 Growing wheat to sell to flour companies is a good example of what happens in: Correct! commercial/market economies Question 2 In terms of the primary sector, the most intensive agricultural products are: Correct! fruits and vegetables (including flowers) Question 3 Examples of specialized industrial regions include Silicon Valley in _____ or Silicon Alley in _____. the south San Francisco Bay area/ Manhattan Question 4 During the early twenty-first century (after some recovery from the terrorist attacks of 2001), US maintained its position as second only to _____ in attracting foreign tourists, but it leads the world in revenues generated by foreign tourism. Correct! France Question 5 In the US, New York City is the largest urban draw for tourists, followed by Los Angeles, _____, _____, and Chicago. !

Orlando/ Las Vegas Question 6 Today, no more than 1 percent of North Americans of working age are employed in the primary sector, while nearly _____ percent are employed in tertiary services (including quaternary and quinary services). 90 Question 7 The _____ sector of the economy has grown in North America and most other parts of the world, including government at all levels (from municipal to state/provincial to federal to international). This has been the fastest growing areas of the economy since 1950 in terms of the employment it has created. In many parts of the world, it is the largest employer. Correct! public Question 8 US and Canada are considered to be among the most developed countries in the world. Other developed countries are found in most of Europe, _____, and a few countries in Asia including Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Israel. orrect! Australia and New Zealand Question 9 People in developed countries like US and Canada live mostly in cities, not in rural or wilderness areas. Some _____ percent of residents of both countries live in urbanized areas, which includes large, medium, and small cities, and their attendant suburbs. Correct! 80 Question 10

Canadian cities tend to be more like US cities of similar longitude rather than other Canadian cities further east or west. Thus, Calgary is more like _____ that it is Toronto, and Winnipeg resembles _____ more than it does Vancouver. Correct! Denver/ Minneapolis Question 11 Canadian cities are less fragmented by freeways and parking lots; indeed US cities have _____ times the amount of urban expressways per capita as do Canadian cities. Correct! four Question 12 In contrast to most US cities, Canadian central city governments often enjoy healthy municipal: tax bases Question 13 Prior to 1830, a number of small ports existed, but a number of cities soon began to exert dominance. Which is NOT among one of the cities that soon began to exert dominance? Toronto You Answered Question 14 Toronto's original name was _____, and it was the capital of Upper Canada (after the partitioning of British North America into Upper Canada and Lower Canada). Correct! York Question 15

Each important coastal port began to organize its own railway and push it inland. Of the major American ports, _____ alone was forced to content itself with connecting lines; its own railway didn't reach very far. Boston Question 16 The Grand Trunk Railway, built after 1850 from Chicago through Toronto and Montreal, reached the Atlantic at: Correct! Portland, Maine Question 17 New York City rose to undisputed continental primacy (by the 1850s), partly because the opening of the _____ cemented its western trade advantages, but also because it was able to control much of the external trade of the South. Correct! Erie Canal Question 18 Growing from roughly equal in size with _____ at the turn of the century (1800), New York had a population that exceeded half a million by 1850; this population was more than twice that of any other city on the continent. Philadelphia and Boston Question 19 By 1870 there were fast-growing cities in the Midwest, and continued fast growth in New England and the Middle Atlantic states, especially near New York. _____ was the third largest city in the nation (and not yet a borough of New York City). Correct! Brooklyn

Question 20 In the South by 1870, only _____ had continued major growth and numbered nearly 200,000 people. Correct! New Orleans Question 21 _____, only half the size of Montreal at the beginning of the period (1870), began to capture trade territory to the north and west, and, by the turn of the century (1900), had approached parity in size. Correct! Toronto Question 22 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). on the West Coast Question 23 Since _____, there is evidence that city centers have actually been growing faster than their suburbs, a reversal of the long-standing pattern. 2010 Question 24 When a large population nucleus has at least 50,000 people--and together with its surrounding communities, at least 100,000 people--it is known informally as _____ area, a concept the text typically applies when referring to cities. Correct!

a metropolitan Question 25 The entire region of _____ is essentially the conurbation that runs from north of Boston to south of DC. Megalopolis Question 26 There are nearly _____ metropolitan areas in the US, ranging from about 20 million in metro New York City to 55,000 in Carson City, NV. Correct! 400 Question 27 The most rapidly growing US metropolitan areas are southern Sun Belt cities in _____, and western cities in _____. Correct! Florida, Texas, and the Carolinas/ Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona Question 28 Less than _____ percent of a city's land area is devoted to commercial activities, however these activities are often in the tallest and most conspicuous buildings in the urban area. 4 Question 29 The city of _____ continues to set the pace for underground urban activities, as there exists a 20-mile network of tunnels and shopping malls connecting over 1,600 stores

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