Deck 12: North America

Question 1

The United States with 4.5 percent of the world's population uses _____ percent of the world's energy resources.

A) 10
B) 15
C) 25
D) 40

Answer 1

40

Question 2

The largest minority in the United States is

A) Spanish-speaking
B) African American
C) Asian American
D) Native American

Answer 2

Spanish-speaking

Question 3

In the mid-1700s, the _________ became the dominant colonial power in North America.

A) French
B) Dutch
C) British
D) Spanish

Answer 3

British

Question 4

Canada gained a degree of independence through the British North America Act in

A) 1776
B) 1789
C) 1800
D) 1867

Question 5

The primary resource for the Native Americans who lived on the plains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains was

A) deer
B) salmon
C) bison
D) groundhogs

Question 6

The first commercial crop of the British North American colonies was

A) cotton
B) wheat
C) tea
D) tobacco

Question 7

Loyalists fleeing the incipient United States at the time of the American Revolution settled

A) east of the St. Lawrence Valley
B) on the north and west shores of Lake Ontario
C) both east of the St. Lawrence Valley and on the north and west shores of Lake Ontario
D) neither east of the St. Lawrence Valley nor on the north and west shores of Lake Ontario

Question 8

Industrialization in the United States first grew rapidly when transportation came to be based on the

A) canal
B) railroad
C) truck
D) airplane

Question 9

The first immigrants to the United States after the Native Americans came from

A) Asia
B) Africa
C) Southern Europe
D) Northwestern Europe

Question 10

Building larger factories to make more goods and thus reduce the price of an individual item is

A) management
B) amortization
C) economies of scale
D) vertical integration

Question 11

Horizontal integration means that

A) factories are all on one floor
B) one owner acquires many companies producing the same product
C) factories are built on flat land
D) none of the choices are correct

Question 12

In vertical integration,

A) one owner produces the inputs of a product, the product itself, and then another product that uses the first product
B) factories are built with many stories
C) products spread by hierarchical diffusion
D) managers attain higher education

Question 13

Fordism is

A) an advertising campaign by the Ford Motor Company
B) assembly of many components to make a few models of a product using a production line
C) an educational system for automobile workers
D) capitalism

Question 14

In the late 1800s, the majority of immigrants to the United States came from

A) Eastern and Southern Europe
B) Northern and Western Europe
C) Asia
D) Africa

Question 15

In the mid-1900s the main sources of immigrants were

A) Africa and the Middle East
B) Australia and New Zealand
C) Northern and Western Europe
D) Asia and Latin America

Question 16

The majority of African Americans live in

A) the Midwest
B) the Southwest
C) the Southeast
D) the Pacific Northwest

Question 17

The most important source of income to many Native American groups is

A) agriculture
B) manufacturing
C) cultural tourism
D) gambling casinos

Question 18

Francophones, or French-speaking people, make up about ___________ percent of the Canadian population.

A) 10
B) 25
C) 50
D) 75

Question 19

Which group is not a major part of the opposition to independence for Quebec?

A) English-speaking and other business owners
B) Recent, diverse immigrants
C) Native Cree people
D) All the choices are opposed to independence

Question 20

Most of the population of Canada lives

A) along the Pacific Coast
B) along the Atlantic Coast
C) in the North
D) in a narrow band near the U.S. border

Question 21

The value of manufactured products exceeded the value of agricultural products for the first time in

A) 1820
B) 1860
C) 1875
D) 1900

Question 22

The rapid growth of suburbs after 1945 depended on the development of

A) railroads
B) airlines
C) limited-access highways
D) canals

Question 23

New England's economic boom of the 1990s, known as the "Massachusetts Miracle," was based on

A) high-tech industries
B) steel
C) textiles
D) leather goods

Question 24

The economic fortunes of Appalachia have been based on the unstable market for

A) water power
B) tobacco
C) coal
D) manufactured goods

Question 25

The Southern rural region that is one of the materially poorest in the United States is

A) the Florida Panhandle
B) the Carolina Piedmont
C) the Mississippi Delta
D) southern Georgia

Question 26

A second U.S. core, besides Megalopolis, is

A) The Front Range of the Rockies
B) The southern end of Lake Michigan
C) The Georgia Piedmont
D) The West Coast

Question 27

Most of Canada's commercial timber production comes from

A) Ontario
B) The northern forests
C) Quebec
D) The West Coast

Question 28

The Canadian region receiving the most federal economic aid is

A) the Atlantic provinces
B) Quebec
C) The Prairie provinces
D) British Columbia

Question 29

The Canadian city with a pre-1800 historic heart is

A) Montreal
B) Toronto
C) Ottawa
D) Quebec

Question 30

Which of these provinces is not one of the Prairie Provinces

A) Manitoba
B) Ontario
C) Saskatchewan
D) Alberta

Question 31

Climatic environments within North America are mainly

A) temperate midlatitude
B) Mediterranean
C) humid temperate
D) cold polar

Question 32

There were three main areas of settlements along the Atlantic coast in the 1700's, which of the following was not one of them

A) New England
B) the Middle Atlantic area
C) the Georgia Florida area
D) the Virginia tidewater area

Question 33

Canada lagged behind the United States through the early 1900's economically due to

A) lack of natural resources
B) restrictions from its colonial ties to Britain
C) lack of good ports
D) small labor force

Question 34

A major growth in manufacturing occurred after the 1860's with the adoption of

A) lower taxes
B) better roads
C) new laws concerning exports
D) steel production

Question 35

A major factor in the decline of the Native American populations after the arrival of Europeans was disease.

Question 36

The economy of the Middle Colonies was characterized by plantation agriculture.

Question 37

The rate of population increase in the United States is similar to that of other materially wealthy countries.

Question 38

Immigrants often have higher birth rates and younger age structures than long-established populations.

Question 39

The primary factor in whether or not immigrants-legal and illegal-come to the United States is legislation.

Question 40

Many early manufacturing centers in the United States grew in already established market centers.

Question 41

The United States has more tornadoes each year than any other country.

Question 42

The delta of the Mississippi is shrinking because of dams along the Mississippi River.

Question 43

The best soils in the United States are in the Southeast.

Question 44

The growing affluence in the United States in the 1900s was urban-based.

Question 45

Air travel and telecommunications provide a vital infrastructure for future economic growth because they reduce the costs of distance between places.

Question 46

Throughout U.S. history, most people have lived in cities.

Question 47

In the late 1900s the Manufacturing Belt continued to be important although companies and products changed.

Question 48

Recent immigrants have tended to congregate in Canadian cities but are not segregated by discrimination.

Question 49

Canada's provinces have less autonomy than do U.S. states.

Question 50

Today the eastern mountains have thin soils on steep slopes.

Question 51

A greater range of natural hazards than in any other country in the world marks the natural environments of the United States.

Question 52

A major growth in manufacturing occurred after the 1860s with the adoption of steel production.

Question 53

The region called the America South includes all of Texas in the west and Florida in the east.

Question 54

The largest area of lowland and fertile farmland occurs in the combined drainage basin of the Mississippi-Missouri_Ohio rivers and the Great Lakes, covering nearly 1/3 of Canada and the United States.

Question 55

The ___________ is a political party formed to achieve independence for Quebec.

Question 56

In the 1930s, cultivation of dry lands in the Great Plains resulted in the ____________.

Question 57

The _______________ is charged with "maintenance of international peace and security."

Question 58

The population cluster along the eastern seaboard from Boston to Washington, DC, is called ______________________.

Question 59

The growing disparity between materially wealthy and poor in a country is known as____________.

Question 60

The federal program designed to attack the problem of poverty in Southern Appalachia in 1933 is the ______________________.

Question 61

The part of the city where the largest stores, banks, and offices cluster is the______________.

Question 62

The movement of materially wealthy people into inner cities, displacing materially poor people, is called _________________.

Question 63

The distinctive settlement pattern along the St. Lawrence River, developed by the early French settlers to give everyone access to the river, is called _____________.

Question 64

Canada's newest political division is _____________________.

Question 65

The physical and human geographies of North America are greatly affected by the region's surface _______________.

Question 66

The ____________________________ connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 67

Canadian indigenous groups are referred to as __________________.

Question 68

The term for the metropolitan region that stretches from the greater Washington D. C. area to Richmond Virginia is referred to as ________________.

Question 69

Many people in this province __________________ in West Coast Canada act more British that the British themselves with elaborate rituals of afternoon tea.

Question 70

The Midwest and Great Plains include 8 of the top 10 U.S. farming states, and is sometimes called the _________________ of the country because of its production of grain crops.