Geography 301

1)
ALL Mediterranean climates are known for:

A) Hot Summers

B) Wet summers

C) Getting less than 10” precipitation
per year

D) Mild winter temperatures

E) Supporting growth of Douglas firs

2) Which of these groups
did NOT settle in early Pennsylvania (1682-1775)?
A) English Quakers
B) German Quakers
C) Italians
D) Non-Quaker Germans
E) Scot-Irish

3) Which of the Sub-cultural groups
can best be summed as bi-racial, hierarchical, and Anglican/ Baptist?
A) New Mexico’s Hispanos
B) Lower Midwest
C) Upper South
D) Upper Midwest or “Yankee”
E) Lower South

4) The modern Rocky Mountains were
created:

A) during the plate collisions that
lead to the formation of the supercontinent of Pangaea.

B) before the inland sea developed
from Texas to the Arctic Ocean 90 million years ago.

C) during the Laramide Orogeny caused
by the very shallow subduction of the oceanic
Farallon Plate under the continental North American plate.

D) during the formation of the North
America Craton.

E) as the continental glaciers
retreated leaving behind tons of rocky rubble.

Settled
as a French fur-company town of mostly French Catholic peasants. Strong working relationship with Indian
trading partners

Plantation-based society with wealthy British landowners, slaves and indentured
servants to grow the tobacco. Cities not
well developed, very hierarchical social structure

Mix of English and German Quakers with Scotch-Irish, most tolerant society with strong middle class. Foundation of both
upper South and Lower Midwestern Sub-Cultures

Plantation
culture straight from Barbados, British landowners, like “A” above except crops
were indigo and rice and it was one of the origins of the bi-racial Lower South
American subculture

Which of these was recently named by
the United Nations as one of the Seven Wonders of the World?
A) The Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan near modern Mexico City
B) The Cahokia Mounds near St. Louis
C) The Cliff Dwellings of the Anasazi at Mesa Verde in Colorado
D) The Kukulkan Pyramid of the Maya at Chechen Itza

Which of these statements is most
accurate about the Upper Southern Culture group?

A) Its origins are in Tidewater Virginia and
coastal South Carolina

B) It was (is) a bi-racial culture

C)It had a strong middle class of farmers, merchants and craftsmen.

D) While the elites were
primarily Anglican Church members, the entire culture became a Southern Baptist
stronghold

E) All of the above are accurate

Which
of these is the most accurate about the Lower Southern Cultural group?

A)
It originated in Tidewater Virginia and South Carolina

B)
Many were of German origin

C) It included many
farmers who migrated south along the Great Valley into western North Carolina,
Tennessee, and Kentucky.

D) Many of the group
like Sam Houston and Davy Crocket would find their way to Texas by 1835 where
they would play key roles in the Texas Revolution.

E) None of the above is
accurate

Between 60 degrees N and the
North Pole, the prevailing winds are out of the west across most of North
America.

True
False
True False

A North American city
has an average January temperature of 44.1 degrees F with 5.1 inches of
precipitation. In July, it averages 81.5
degrees with 4.5 inches of precipitation.
For the year, it gets 55.6 inches of rain. Which climate zone is it in and what direction
from College Station is it?

A) Mediterranean, west of College
Station, probably Los Angeles

B) Subtropical Humid, east of
College Station, probably Jackson MS

C) Continental Humid, north of College
Station, probably Ames Iowa

C) Desert –west of College Station,
probably El Paso.

D) Subtropical Humid, west of College
Station, probably Austin

A North American city
has an average January temperature of 42.8 degrees F with 0.4 inches of
rain. In July, it averages 82.2 degrees
with 1.5 inches of precipitation. For
the year, it gets less than 10 inches of rain.
Which city and climate zone is it in?

A) Los
Angeles -Mediterranean

B) Kansas City -Continental Humid

C) Seattle – Marine West Coast

D) El Paso – Desert

E) Miami -Subtropical Humid or Tropical
humid

A North American city has an average January temperature of 56.3 degrees F with 2.6 inches of rain. In July, it averages 71.6 degrees F with 0.0 inches of precipitation. For the year, it gets less than 12 inches of rain. Which climate zone is it in?

A) Mediterranean
B) Tundra
C) Desert
D) Subtropical humid
E) West Coast Marine

Lichens and small, short, quick maturing plants are the main vegetation of which Koppen climate zone?

A) Marine West Coast
B) Subtropical Humid
C) Continental Humid
D) Tundra
E) Mediterranean

Which of the following is most accurate about what is taken into account in determining Koppen climate zones?

A) A and C only
B) Average precipitation
C) Soil type
D) Average temperatures
E) B and C only

Which of these is NOT true about the geomorphic processes?
A) They include weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition.
B) The processes themselves are virtually unchanged over the history of the planet.
C) They are driven by seafloor spreading.
D) They work to smooth the surface of the earth.
E) None of the above is correct

During the Pleistocene (Ice Age), all of the following happened except:

A)The formation of the super-continent Pangaea.
B) Sea level fell several hundred feet, allowing the erosion of submarine canyons where riversflowed,
creating today’s natural harbors.
C)The great Missoula floods took place
D)Lake Bonneville, the ancestor to the Great Salt Lake, covered much more of
modern day Utah than the Great Salt Lake does today.
E)Humans crossed over from Asia to North America

Which of these is true about the exposed part of the North American Craton (Canadian
Shield)?

A) It has been under the water for most of the last 2 billion years
B) It was largely scrapped free of soil and many lakes craved out during the Wisconsinan
C) It was assembled over the last 300 million years.
D) It is centered on Denver, Colorado
ice advance.

Whichof the following is attributable to a “hot spot”?

A) Melting of the ice dam that created Lake Missoula
B) Creation of the Hawaiian islands
C) The isostatic rebound being experienced on the Canadian Shield and in Scandinavia.
D) The formation of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Rangevolcanoes
E) All of the above are attributable to hot spots

Which of the following is NOT true about the Anasazi culture?

A) They built ceremonial or burial mounds from east Texas to near St. Louis.
B) They built cliff dwellings in modern day Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.
C) Mesa Verde National Park includes many of the culture’s famous ruins.
D) They left no written record to explain why their culture disappeared.

The most massive mountain ranges have been and are built by:

A) the divergence of two continental crustal
plates

B) the convergence of two continental crustal plates

C) the divergence of a continental and a oceanic plate

D) the transverse movements of either type of plate

Creation
of oil and gas fields require

A) Intrusions of molten
lava to create metamorphic processes in the formation

B) Deposition of
layers of organic materials (mostly one cell plants and animals)

C) Cooling under
glacial advances

D) A and B only

E) B and C only

Between 30O N and 60O N, the prevailing winds are out of the east across most of North America.

A)True
B)False

Mineralized
zone aregoing to be found where:

A) The Pleistocene glaciers covered
the ground

B) The Pleistocene glaciers stopped
and then retreated

C) Magma
intrusions have led to metamorphism of the rocks

D) Calcite (Calcium Carbonate) secreting
and skeletonal organisms have created thick beds of limestone.

E) None of the above is
true

The
great inland sea of about 90 million years ago left its greatest mark on which
Physiographic region?
A) The Great Plains.
B) Appalachian Highlands
C) Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain.
D) The Pacific Mountains
E) Piedmont.
and Valleys

The
mountain range created during the formation of Pangaea

A) has been largely eroded away.

B) provided much of the
sediment to build the coastal plain on widening oceanic crust.

C) provided sediment to
create sediment cover for coal fields from Pennsylvania to Texas.

D) All of
the above are true.

E) None of the above is true.

Which
of the following is LEAST accurate?

A) Natural vegetation type is
determined mostly by climate and to a lesser extent soil type.

B) Soil type is dependent on geology
and climate.

C)The more rainfall, the larger and
denser the primary vegetation type.

D) In the rainforest of the northwest,
large, densely spaced Douglas fir and western hemlock prevail on the windward
side.

E) All of the above are true.

What limits the inland
penetration of the Pacific marine polar air mass’s moisture?

A) The prevailing
westerlies

B) The Coast Ranges
developed during the collisions that formed Pangaea

C) The Mohave Desert

D) The Coast Ranges,
the Cascades, the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies

Going toward the center of the earth from HECC, which of the following are you LEAST
likely to find:
A) Sandstone.
B) Salt deposits
C) Part of the old North American Craton
D) Oil
E) Oceanic crust

Mineralization
is most associated with
A) Intrusion of Magma
B) Deposition
C) Physical weathering
D) Chemical decomposition
E) Erosion

Which
of the following did NOT contribute to Cortez’s conquest of the Aztec Empire?

A) Aztec lack of immunity to European
diseases like small pox and the flu

B) The Aztecs had never seen a horse

C) The Aztecs feared Cortez might be a
returning God

D) The disloyalty of the peoples the
Aztec had conquered.

E) The superior numbers of troops Cortez
had on the battlefield

while only about ¼ of white
Southerners came from slave holding families, in the first 60 years of the US
Presidency, most the time the President would be a slaveholder.

A)True
B)False

Which
of the following is NOT true about the Pennsylvania Cultural hearth

A) Wm
Penn received land for a Quaker colony centered around the old Swedish and
Dutch settlements on the Delaware River (Philadelphia)

B) the
colonists defeated the American Indians in the region and took the lands in a
series of wars.

C)
Original colonists included English Quakers from London and Bristol, some rich,
some craftsmen, some shopkeepers, and some manual laborers

D) German
Quakers also came, then other Germans, creatinga “German problem” for the colony.

South Carolina started as a colony of a colony (Barbados), making it most culturally diverse of the original cultural hearths.

A)True
B)False

The super continent Pangaea formed very, very early in Earth’s geological history.

A)True
B)False

Scierophyllous
vegetation dominates which Koppen climate zone?
A) Tundra
B) Mediterranean
C) Continental Humid
D) Marine West Coast
E) Subtropical Humid

The subduction of the Pacific plates
under the North America plate:

A)
Scraped islands and small continents off the oceanic crust and piled them up as
terrenes, forming many of the coastal ranges

B) Caused formation of Sierra Nevada
and Cascade Ranges.

C) Caused the last major mountain
building process in the Rockies.

D)
Thinned the continental plate between the Sierra and the Rockies which would
lead to the formation of the Basin and Range topography.
E) All of the above are true.

Mark
Twain is quoted as saying the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San
Francisco. Why did he say that?.

A) San Francisco is high in the
Sierra Nevada near a glacier.

B) He
worked the summer of 1851 as a young man for a San Francisco salmon fisherman
packing fish in ice for shipment up to the Gold Fields.

C) San
Francisco is so far north it never gets very warm.

D) San
Francisco has a very continental climate

E).The
cold Pacific Current, the prevailing westerlies, the coastal mountains, and the
constant summer onshore breeze keeps most of the city in a cool fog most of the
summer.

East of the Rocky Mountains, the climate tends to get wetter and wetter the further straight east one goes in North America.

A)True
B)False

47)
Plate boundaries are ALL areas of
A) High Risk for volcanic and/or earthquake activity
B) Divergence
C) Transverse movement
D) Convergence
E) Sea-floor spreading

The earth is closer to Sun in January than in July.

A)True
B)False

The
Scablands of Washington and Oregon were most shaped by

A) The erosion and deposition caused by
the glaciers advancing out of the Rockies and Cascades

B) Slow erosion by regional rivers

C) Wind erosion over many thousands of
years

D) The great Pacific tsunami of about
5000 BC.

E) The catastrophic flood cause by the
collapse of the ice dam forming Lake Missoula during the last days of the last
ice age advance.

“Aggieland” is an example of a
___________Region
A) Functional
B) Perceptual
C) Nodal
D) Formal

Immigration to the US from which of the following
areas has never been limited by US law?

A)
Britain

B)
Germany

C)
Latin
America

D) Puerto Rico

E)
Canada

Santa Fe, New Mexico

A) Was founded by
colonists from the Republic of Texas

B) Was established by
immigrants from the Republic of Mexico

C) Was established by Spanish
soldiers and priests sent to Christianize the local Indians around the time
Jamestown was established

D All of the above
are true.

E)None of the above
is true.

C) Was established by Spanish

Which of the following is true of Montreal?

A) American troops
burnt it to the ground during the War of 1812.

B) It grew early
because it was the capital of Upper (Ontario) and all roads led to it

C) It sits at the head of navigation on the St
Lawrence River

D) It is the largest
city in Canada

E) It sits at one end
of Ontario’s “Golden Horseshoe”

What was Boston “Big Dig”?

A)
The
1820s construction of the Erie Canal using mostly Irish-immigrant workers.

B) The $14.8 billion, 26 years project to try to retrofit
the 1700s city to the automobile by moving a major-cross town interstate
highway underground.

C)
The
pit dug to create a landfill north of the city.

D)
Construction
of the city’s subway system in the 1890s

None
of the above.

Which of these is a reason why Detroit became
the center of the automobile industry?

A) Detroit was the
rubber tire capital of the world.

B) It was John D. Rockefeller’s hometown

C) The Michigan topography gaveearly
automakers a good local market because it the Michigan roads were perhaps the
best in the nation for the somewhat unreliable “motor car.”

D) All of the above
are true

E) None of these
statements are true

Marketing catalog sales based retailing in rural
areas, meatpacking, petroleum refining, steel making, and agricultural equipment
manufacturing

Historically steel making capital and heavy
equipment manufacturing

Small engine manufacturing, brewing, food
processing, automobiles and automotive parts

Government and hot air only

Rubber and tires

The Donora killer smog in 1948:

A)
Killed 20 people near Los Angeles

B) Destroyed millions
of trees in the Appalachian Mountain because of the resulting Acid Rain

C)
Was the nickname of the national champion USC defensive secondary.

D) Sickened hundreds in a little Allegheny
Plateau river valley town of Donora south of Pittsburgh when a temperature
inversion and the steep valley walls trapped automobile exhausts in the valley air
for days.Zinc plant emissions, not automobile

E) Raised awareness of the problems of air
pollution and would eventually lead to the passage of the Clean Air Act many
years later.

Petroleum refining and petrochemical

Mixed and varied manufactured products

Automobiles
and automotive parts

Iron,
steel and heavy equipment

Which of these is NOT true of the Erie Canal?

A) It was able to
eventually lower the cost of moving a ton of freight from Buffalo to New York
City from $100 to $4.

B)
It
would eventually be made non-competitive by the Steel-Rail era railroads that
would parallel it.

C)
It
was the most successful of the early 19th century canal systems.

D)
It
improved New York City’s situation so much that NYC soon became North America’s
major city and commercial center.

E) All of the above are true.

Texas immigration patterns were unique in that
it was the only former Confederate state to attract large numbers of European immigrants during the 19th century

A)True
B)False

The Salt Lake Valley
was:

A) Settled by Mormons
during the Mexican War.

B) Settled by Mormons while it still belonged to France.

C) Settled first by Hispanics from Santa Fe

D) Was established as an army post by General Brigham Young on his way to capture California

The first transcontinental railroad was largely
constructed with Chinese immigrant laborers working eastward from Sacramento
and by Irish immigrant laborers working westward from Council Bluffs.

A)True
B)False

Which of these is
true about the Underground Railroad?

A) Its tracks were often torn up by
slave owners

B) People who ran it were violating Federal
laws

C) It helped millions of slaves
escape to Canada

D) The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
shut it down.

E) Runaway slaves only had to reach
New York to achieve freedom.

Which of these are
NOT associated with Borchert’s1870-1920 Steel-Rail Era

A)Trains become more powerful and railroads
more efficient

B) Decrease in relative importance
of inland waterway system.

C) Rise of the cities that are purely rail
centers (Youngstown, Columbus, Akron, Dallas, Indianapolis, and Denver)

D) Most factories locating on “Fall line” to tap hydro-energy.

E) The decline of the Erie Canal
towns

Which of the
following is least accurate about Washington D.C.?

A)
It was not really break-in-bulk location, became important because of political
compromise.



B)
It was a new city designed to be the national capital; nothing was there except
for the small colonial village of Georgetown now inside the city.

C) The
development of the elevator helped it grow vertically with many tall office and
apartment buildings.

D) Washington and the federal government were
limited in size until the New Deal through WWII growth period which matched the
rise of the automobile. Sprawl into the suburbs particularly great.

Which of these is NOT
true about New York City?

A) It has the highest population density of
any American city.

B) Its high density was achieved with the help
of the elevator and it has more tall buildings than any American city.

C) Its subway system developed about the same
time as the main growth in the city and itprovides a veryeffective mass transit
to this day.

D) The automobile’s ability to drive spatial sprawl
was limited by Hudson River and East River and the tunnels and bridges become
choke points.

E) It has been experiencing great growth in manufacturing
and warehousing activities over the last 30 years

Which
of the following are NOT manufacturers’ optionsto reduce labor cost?

A) Outsource to low labor cost
areas.

B) Relocate manufacturing facilities
to lower labor cost areas

C) Relocate manufacturing to be closer customers
D) Encourage increased immigration

E) Invest in machinery and equipment

Which is NOT true about the Louisiana
Purchase?

A) Originally Jefferson only wanted to purchase San Francisco from France to
improve US claim to the Oregon Country.

B) The purchase gave the
US a claim to Red River Valley of Texas, which it negotiated away in exchange
for Florida a couple of years later.

C)
Napoleon
(France) had just taken Louisiana back from Spain after over a little more than
a third of a century of Spanish rule.

D)
The
Purchase originally included all of the Mississippi River drainage basin not
already under US control.

E)
The
Louisiana Purchase approximately doubled the size of the US.

The Pennsylvania Dutch are really Germans.

A)True
B)False

Which city is most famous for manufacturing gunpowder and nylon?

A) Chicago
B) Montreal,Quebec.
C) Detroit
D) Wilmington, Delaware
E) Boston

26) According to the
Wisconsin video, Wisconsin is famous for the following EXCEPT:
A) The largest Islamic community in the US.
B) Invention of the motorcycle
C) Cheese making
D) Beer making
E) Ship wrecks

Before 1921, the only limitations on immigration to the US were placed on Latin Americans.

A)True
B)False

Mexico had high
hopes when it went to war with the US in 1846 because:

A) It had a much larger
standing army than the US that was well trained by the British.

B) It looked certain the
US was going to go war with the British over the Oregon Country and that would
split the US forces.

C) They planned to march
into the South and trigger slave revolts.

D) All of the above are good reasons why the Mexicans were not afraid of
the US military in 1846.

E)
Mexico was lead at the start of the war by the Napoleon of the West – Santa
Anna, the greatest general the Americas ever produced.

The New York video stated that the invention of
the elevator started the NYC skyscraper construction boom in the 1920s

A)True
B)False

Manufacturers have decreased their
inventory related cost by:

A)
Moving closer to the customers

B)
Outsourcing to lower labor cost markets

C)
Going to just-in-time manufacturing
techniques

D)
All of the above reduce Inventory related manufacturing cost.

E)
None of the above reduces inventory related manufacturing cost.

Which of these statements is NOT true
about the North American manufacturing core?

A)
It started in New England with ship building and related activities.

B)From its founding, Washington D. C. has
been the center of manufacturing activities in North America

C) Manufacturing core had all
resources nearby for a steam and electric powered economy

D) Agricultural surpluses drove
initial growth across the Appalachians.

E) Erie and Welland Canals and Soo
Locks open entire Great Lakes to water access to world markets.

Which of these statements is least
accurate about the petroleum refineries in the Chicago, Cleveland, St Louis,
Sarnia, Ontario, and Lima, Ohio areas?

A)
They got started refining locally produced petroleum for local markets.

B)
They continued to be successful refining gasoline for the new automobile.

C)
The oil fields they relied for on have
being largely depleted so they haveall been forced to shutdown over the last 30
years.

D)
Large pipelines have been built from Alberta, West Texas, the Rocky Mountains,
and offshore Gulf Coast to the refineries, making crude oil transportation cost
very low and keeping the refineries viable.

Akron, Ohio is famous for:

A)Being the Steel Capital of the World

B)Being the location of the synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities built by
the government during World War II
C)The home of the Akron Professionals, the
first champions of what would become known as the National Football League.
D)The original home of the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson, the first African-American
Major League baseball player.
E) Its breweries

) Immigration dropped to lower levels
during the 1920s because

A) Canada was able to attract more
settlers to the Prairie Provinces.

B) the prohibitions on Chinese and
Japanese immigration were initiated about that time.

C) The European economy was better
during that time than the US economy

D) the 1924 quota-based immigration law was
passed.

Which of the following is NOT true of the
Canadian Core

A) It is limited to
the north by the thin soils, muskeg, and cold conditions of the Canadian Shield

B) It is exclusively the English speaking
heart of Canada.

C) It is limited to
southern Ontario and southern Quebec

D) it was almost torn
apart by the Quebec Secessionist vote in 1995

E) It’s industrial
zone is centered in southern Ontario between the Toronto and the Golden
Horseshoe and the Windsor-Sarnia region.

Which of the following contributed the
LEAST to the migration of African-Americans from the South to northern cities?

A)
The arrival of the Boll weevil

B)
The immigration quotas of the 1923 immigration law.

C) Freedom at the end of the Civil War.

D)Continued growth of Northern industries and the Federal Government,
particularly during World War II.

In 1900, the percent of foreign born Americans tended
to be highest in the largernorthern cities and lowest in small southern cities.

A)True
B)False

In the American Civil War, the
Confederate states’ main hope was

A)
That its larger population would wear the North down

B)
That its advantage in manufacturing would prevail over the North

C)
That cutting off Southern food production would starve the North into
submission.

D)
That the English would provide military support
to the South to keep cotton flowing to British textile mills.

Which of
the following is least accurate about
Appalachian corn and ethanol production?



A) Conversion of corn into alcohol
has long been a method of getting an agricultural product to the market for
farmers in and west of the Appalachians.

B) Because conversion to alcohol was so important for western farmers
in 1790 to get their corn production to market, alcohol was exempt from federal
excise taxes.

C)The original excise taxes put on
alcohol caused unrest and rioting in Pittsburgh that President Washington
prepared to use the militia to put down.

D) The roots of NASCAR can be
traced to the tradition needing a car faster than the police in case the
illegal ethanol production facility is raided


E) Appalachian corn was also
converted to ham, cheese and eggs by hogs, cows and chickens.

Which of the following is true about Appalachian Coal?



A) The
seams of coal are thin, (less than one meter thick), requiring vertical mines.

B) It’s
higher BTU content gives it a great environmental advantage over Western coals

C) It
was formed in the highlands created during the formation of Pangaea a billion
years ago.

D) Mechanization
and stagnate demand have led to un- and under- employment of mineworkers.

E)
None of the
above are true.

If Houston, Texas
wanted to change its bowl game’sname to an agriculturally correct one for its
region,what would be the best choice?

A) Vegetable


B)
Rice

C) Lime

D) Chili
pepper

E) Asparagus

Which of the following is true about petroleum and natural
gas operations in the southern coastal regions

A) There is so much guaranteed oil
and gas in offshore Florida that drilling for oil there is supported by most
political leaders.

B) Oil and gas production offshore
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama is now the third greatest oil
producing area in the country

C) About 80% of all US petroleum
refining is in the GulfCoast region.

D) Petroleum pipelines move oil from the oil fields to the refineries
and product pipelines move gasoline, diesel and jet fuel to markets very
economically.

E) Many offshore oil platform
designs are tested for ability to survive storms and storm waves at the t. u.
wave tank in Austin

Which of the following is most accurate about the
environmental factors affecting the Agricultural Core?

A) The terrain is generally very
mountainous.

B) Exception to the generalized terrain include the driftless zone of
Wisconsin and the karst terrain in Kentucky

C) All lakes in the Agricultural
Core are slowly increasing in size because of erosion and sea-level rise.

D) All parts of the Agricultural
Core average less than 30 inches of rain a year.

E) Until the arrival of Europeans,
the Prairie Wedge did not exist.

Which the following is most accurate about the Old South?



A) The
Old South’s population in 1860 mostly consisted of descendents of African
slaves and English, German, Irish, Scotch-Irish, and Cuban immigrants.

B) The
first contacts between the settlers of the Old South and the civilized tribes
of American Indians resulted in immediate race warfare.

C) By
1900, about 90% of America’s African-American population had moved to northern
cities.

D)
While
African Americans lacked political and economic power, their numbers and
contribution still influenced the development of Southern culture greatly with
contributions ranging from architecture to agriculture to music.

E) The
primary reason for racial conflict in the Old South was religious.

Which city: economic activity association is not correct:



A) Atlanta – Center for Disease
Control and Coca Cola headquarters

B) Charlotte – Banking and finance

C) Memphis - Graceland and the
river

D) Nashville – FEDEX planes

E) Birmingham – steel

Which of these is not associated with Miami

A) First established by the Spanish

B) Home to
half of the Cuban-Americans (Miami and Dade County)

C) Grew with Flagler’s railroad
bringing in tourist and retirees from cold Northern States

D) Had to re-built (renourish) its
beach

E) Will have to renourish its beach
again eventually

Which of the following is not associated with the By-Passed
East?
A) Lobsters
B) Ben and Jerry’s
C) Excellent ports with excellent landside connections to the rest of
North America.
D) The oldest English settlement
in Canada
E) Offshore oil production

Which of the following is LEAST accurate about the TVA?

A) a primary purpose of the program
was to create jobs

B) ithelped control flooding in the region

C) All of the electricity generated by TVA comes from renewable energy sources
(mostly water power)

D) the TVAdams created
hydroelectric power, miles of waterfront property, and improved navigation on
the Tennessee and CumberlandRivers.

E) The TVA gave the region a great
advantage in electric power costs

What does the quote “General Electric has proved a more devastating invader than General
Sherman” refer to?



A) The
General Electric Company imported boll weevils into Jackson MS for research and
accidentally let them escape.

B) Union
General Winfield R. Electric destroyed the levees on the Mississippi and
allowed floods to destroy the cotton fields of Mississippi and Louisiana until
the levees were finally rebuilt in the 1880s.

C)
Air
conditioning turned the open, well ventilated southern homes dominated by front
porches into closed homes and less friendly neighborhoods.

D) Television
has destroyed southern moral values

E) Air
conditioning helped attract more Northerners to the South (remember Frank grew
up in Pennsylvania so be careful!)

Which of the following is NOT true about sand beaches?



A)
Raking of
beaches is important for beach stability because it keeps the vegetation off
the beach and dune area.

B) Sand
on a beach is constantly moving one general direction alongshore in a movement
called longshore drift.

C) Sand
moves from the dunes to offshore berms in response to storm waves.

D) Groins
built to stop beach erosion only relocate where beach erosion takes place.

E) Loss
of sediment sources caused the beach at Miami Beach to all but disappear and it
had to be renourished several years ago.

Which of these is NOT related to Houston, Texas?



A) Owes
early growth to railroads centered there.

B) Took
advantage of air conditioning to create a more amenity rich place.

C) Became
the center of the petrochemical industry
after the WWII synthetic rubber plant was awarded the city.

D) It
built a ship channel to the Gulf in the early 20th century that made
it one of the world’s great ports in terms of tonnage.

E) It became a major banking center and
insurance center when the Federal Reserve Bank located there.

Which of the
following does not affect the pattern of the typical Iowa farm and farm
community?

A) Barn designs from colonial
southern eastern Pennsylvania.

B) Roads laid out on one mile wide
grids running east-west and north-south.

C) Increasing importance of high
technology and information systems

D) Western migration of the New
England and Lower Mid-west cultural groups.

E) All of the above affect the modern Iowa farm and farm community

Which of the following is true about the Great Plains and
Prairies?



A) The
region as area extends from the Mexican border to just short of the Canadian
border.

B) The
entire area was a high mountain range that developed about 65 million years ago
when two continental plates collided.

C) The
major crops of the entire region are corn and soybeans

D) A
large part of the region is underlain by the Ogallala formation, one of the
great sources of crude oil in the country.

E)
Gravels,
sands and mud eroded off the rising Rocky Mountains helped fill the inland sea,
providing the sediments required for both coal/lignite and oil/natural gas formation
over much of the region

Which of the following generally decreases going east to
west across the Great Plains and Prairies? (Going from Kansas City to Denver)



A) The
elevation

B)
The amount
of annual rainfall

C) The
average farm size

D) The
IQ of the residents

E) None
of the above.

The number one coal-lignite producing state is now?
A) Texas
B) Kentucky
C) Wyoming
D) Montana
E) West Virginia

Which of the
following physical regions is NOT in the Intermountain West (or Birdsal’sEmpty
Interior?)

A) The northern
Rockies

B) The Ozarks

C) The Colorado Plateau

D) The Great
Basin

E) The Sierra
Nevada

Which of these is
LEAST accurate true about the Old South:

A) It was socially stratified
culture with an economy based on plantation grown export bulk crops and slave
and indentured labor.

B) The Civil War
destroyed the economy

C) Reconstruction helped reorient the South to
a new economic and social success

D) Regional
pride has remained strong through all the adversity

E) The region
became legally divided by Jim Crow laws into white and non-white societies that
were intertwined physically and both sectors went downhill economically on
separate paths

Iowa is least famous for ?

A) Wheat
production

B) Corn Production

C) Cattle outnumber humans

D) Pig production

E) New ethanol
plants

Which of the following human landscape features is not
attributable to the Land Ordinance of 1785?

A) New England road patterns

B) Roads on a one mile by one mile
square grid system oriented east-west, north-south

C) 160 acre
(quarter section) farms

D) Quilt
pattern to fields as seen from air

E)
36 square mile townships with at least two sections of land devoted to
developing schools and local government

Which of following is not part of the Appalachians
Mountains?

A) The Basin and Range

B) The Blue
Ridge

C) Ridge
and Valley Province

D) The
Appalachian Plateau

E) All of
the above are part of the Appalachian Mountains

Which of these statements is least true of Appalachian
Plateau?

A) Its
horizontal sedimentary layers include coal seams

B) The
layers are eroded to give “rumpled” topography – no flat land

C) Its sedimentary layers were thrust into an almost vertical
configuration and the layers eroded
differentially to create ridges and valleys

D) Almost
the entire area is underlain with multiple coal seems that can be 10 foot thick

The Appalachian ridges and valleys trend in a northeast to southwest direction

A)True
B)False

Which of these states is most entirely in the Appalachians?
A) Pennsylvania
B) Kentucky
C) Arkansas
D) West Virginia
E) Virginia

Which of the following is NOT associated with Memphis?
A) An airport that is very active
B) ) Beale Street blues music.
C) The Grand Old Opry
at night.
D)
Elvis
E) The Mississippi River

Which of these statements is NOT true of barrier islands?
A) They are very extensive on the Gulf and East coast of the US but rare on the West Coast
B) Sea-level rise is forcing all barrier islands seaward.
C) Occasional washover during storms is normal.
D) Cape Canaveral, Miami Beach, Galveston, Pensacola Beach, the Sea Islands of Georgia, South Padre and Hilton Head are examples of barrier islands
E) All of the above are true about barrier islands

Which of these
statements about the Hispanic and non-Hispanic Americans in the border region
is NOT accurate?

A) When the US acquired the Mexican
Cession and annexed Texas, Hispanics made up less than 10% of the population of
Texas and California

B) When the US acquired the Mexican Cession and annexed Texas, the
largest Hispanic community acquired was in modern day Arizona.

C)
Hispanics are a majority in San Antonio.

D) The two cultures continue side
by side, with varying degrees of cultural
sharing and acculturation taking place, with each increasing influenced
and modified by the other.

Which of the
following is most accurate about the Maquiladoras (Twin Plants)?

A)They are part of the program of to protect
Mexican industries by imposing high
tariffs on goods imported into Mexico.

B)They allow American manufacturers to take advantage of lower labor rates in Mexico (and perhaps less strict
environmental laws) for labor intensive activities.

C)They have led to lower than the
Mexican average wage rates for workers on both
sides of the borders.

D)They are developed to allow
American manufacturers to get around high Mexican
tariffs and get products into Mexico.

San Francisco and
the other coastal towns in north and central California experience a Summer Fog
Mediterranean climate, resulting in heavy cloudbanks hugging the hills and
cliffs and cooling the area during the summer.


A)True
B)False

The Ogallala formation:

A) Will
never run dry

B) Contains
huge reserves of crude oil and natural gas

C) Provides
irrigation water for the Agricultural Core states

D) Has
a maximum thickness of about 10 feet.

E)
Is
considered a fossil aquifer in that it is has been cut off hydraulically from
its recharge zone and is not being recharged and will soon be dried up.

The 8.2 Richter (estimated)
scale earthquake that rocked San Francisco in1906

A) Could never happen again

B) Was 25% more powerful than the 6.5 San Fernando
earthquake in 1971

C) Probably had a
Mercalli scale reading of X or XI.

D) Most damage was caused by the resulting tsunami.

E) None of the above are true.

Which of the following is NOT
true about corn.

A) It is
almost perfectly adapted to Agricultural Core’s climate

B)
Cows can eat the whole plant with proper treatment of
the stocks.

C) It is normally rotated with wheat that
returns nitrogen to soil that the corn depletes

D)
Ethanol has always been a product produced from corn,
first as sour mash whiskey and now as gasoline additive

E)
Ethanol demand is the fasting growing use corn and the
increased government driven demand has driven up the cost of corn and corn feed
meat and poultry products.

The Borderland have high levels of poverty, which of the
following provide the best explanation for this level of poverty?

A) US workers have to compete with
workers willing to work for much lower labor rates across the border on work
that can move across the border.

B) The border states have large
populations

C) Workers from the other side are
willing to risk all to join the labor pool on the US side of the border, adding
to the supply of labor and thus putting downward pressure on wage rates

D) All of the above.

E) A and C only

Which of the following is not associated with California
Agriculture

A) produces
half of the US fruits and vegetables

B) strongly dependent on irrigation
water from the Colorado and California Aqueducts

C) Great variety of sub-climates
allows for great variety of agricultural products and leads nation in growing
80 different fruits and vegetables

D) All of the above are true



E) None of the above are true.

Which of these is not associated with Florida (according to
the States video)

A)
An 84 million visitor a year tourist industry
contributing over $60 billion dollars to the state’s economy

B)
The oldest
average population of any state with 17% over 65 years of age.

C)
The southern part is a giant Sawgrass Swamp, essentially a wide, slow moving river

D) An overseas highway that connected Florida
to Cuba until it was destroyed by a hurricane in 1935.

E)
A state that owes much to an old railroad building oil
man whose friends thought had lost his mind.

Which of these statements is NOT true about Alabama.

A) It was the birthplace of Hank
Aaron, Willie Mays, Helen Keller, and Reuben Stoddard

B) Like much of the southern US,
Jim Crow laws required segregated public facilities for African-Americans after
the end of Reconstruction, including separate sections of public buses.

C) Alabaman Rosa Parks is credited
with starting the civil rights movement in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat
to a white woman on a Montgomery city bus.

D) Alabama governor George Wallace would lead the civil rights movement
after his election in 1963, largely because he wanted African-American football
players to be allowed to play for the University of Alabama and Auburn
University.

E) Alabama had a hill country
county that wanted to succeed from Alabama when Alabama joined the Confederacy

Which of these is not found in South Dakota?

A) Mount Rushmore

B) What when finished will be the
world’s largest statue, that of Crazy Horse.

C) The monument to the man who discovered gold in the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer.

D) The “world’s largest bird
feeder” in Mitchell

E) Parts of the Badlands