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Test Bank For The Geography of North America Environment Culture Economy 2nd Edition by Hardwick

Chapter 2 North America's Environmental Setting

1) The study of the environmental characteristics of Earth is called

what? A) Human geography

Chapter Section: Introduction

Bloom's Taxonomy: 1 Knowledge - Select

GeoStandard1: 3 How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface

GeoStandard2: 7 The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface

2) Which major physical feature in North America was created by down-cutting? A) The Appalachian mountains

B) The Erie Canal C)

The Great Lakes D)

The Grand Canyon

Answer: D

Diff: 3

Chapter Section: Landforms, Hydrology, Soils

Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 Comprehension - Select

GeoStandard2: 8 The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth's surface

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3) Which major physical feature in North America did glaciers

create? A) The Rocky mountains

B) The Erie Canal C)

The Great Lakes D)

The Grand Canyon

Answer: C

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4) The first mountain chain that slowed the western movement of early

American settlers was

A) The Rocky Mountains

B) The Appalachian Mountains

C) The Ozark Mountains

D) The Sierras

Answer: B

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: 3 Application - Relate

GeoStandard1: 2 How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments

GeoStandard2: 15 How physical systems affect human systems

5) The Fall Line is an imaginary line formed by points

A) Along eastern rivers that was the limit of accessibility for ocean going ships B) At which draft animals of settlers moving west would drop from exhaustion C) Along eastern rivers where there were waterfalls

D) All of the above

E) Both A and C

Answer: E

Diff: 2

GeoStandard1: 15 How physical systems affect human systems GeoStandard2:

8 The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth's surface

6) Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain in the Appalachians is the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada

A) Much higher than

B) Much lower than

C) About the same elevation

as D) Almost as high as

Answer: B

Diff: 3

Bloom's Taxonomy: 3 Application - Compare

GeoStandard1: 4 The physical and human characteristics of places

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7) The Erie Canal was constructed to provide water route between the

Atlantic Coast and what?

A) The Great Lakes

GeoStandard1: 14 How human actions modify the physical environment GeoStandard2: 4 The physical and human characteristics of places

8) Most of North America is located on which tectonic

plate? A) The Juan de Fuca Plate

B) The Pacific Plate

C) The Atlantic Plate

D) The North American

Plate Answer: D

Diff: 1

GeoStandard2: 4 The physical and human characteristics of places 9) The San Andreas Fault is located in which part of North

America? A) The southeast

B) The northwest

C) The Great Plains

D) California

Answer: D Diff: 2

GeoStandard2: 4 The physical and human characteristics of places 10) Another name for the process of mountain building is

what? A) Orogeny

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11) Explosive eruptions of pyroclastic debris and gases are associated with which type of volcanoes?

12) The lava of a shield volcano

A) Has a low viscosity and so flows across the landscape

B) Erupts explosively, spreading ash and debris through the atmosphere

C) Is the hottest form of lava because it comes from deeper within the earth D) Tends to contain a large amount of gas bubbles

Answer: A

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13) During the maximum extent of glaciation in North America, continental

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glaciers extended how far south?

Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 Comprehension - Locate

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14) Sinkholes are associated with which type of landscape?

15) When depositional forces are dominant on a coastline, those forces produce which of the following features?

16) The Mississippi-Missouri river basin flows into the A) South-east, Atlantic Ocean

B) North, Hudson Bay C)

South, Gulf of Mexico

D) South-west, Pacific

Ocean Answer: C

Diff: 2

GeoStandard2: 8 The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on

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Earth's surface

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17) The Great Lakes-St Lawrence system flows into the

A) South-east, Atlantic Ocean

B) North, Hudson Bay

C) North-east, North Atlantic

D) South, Gulf of Mexico

Answer: C

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18) The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain physiographic province has which of the following characteristics?

A) Many fertile swamps and marshes

B) Low, rolling hills

C) Folding, uplift, and faulting

D) Small mountain ranges and flat

valleys Answer: A

Diff: 3

19) The Intermontane physiographic province has which of the

following characteristics?

A) Low, rolling hills

B) Many fertile swamps and marshes

C) Steep canyons, mesas and buttes

D) Widespread volcanism and tectonic

uplift Answer: C

Diff: 2

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20) The Canadian Shield covers about how much of the area of Canada?

21) Which variable influences that amount of solar radiation of a place, and

the length of day in that place?

Chapter Section: Weather and Climate

GeoStandard2: 7 The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's

surface

22) If the same amount of sunlight was hitting an area of land and an area of water, which area would heat more rapidly?

A) The land would heat more rapidly

B) The water would heat more rapidly

C) They would both heat at about the same rate

D) It would depend on the characteristics of the water and

land Answer: A

Diff: 4

Bloom's Taxonomy: 4 Analysis - Compare

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23) Differences in atmospheric pressure are measured using

GeoStandard2: 3 How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface

24) On average, temperatures decline about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit for every

1000 ft rise in elevation What is this temperature decline called?

A) Altitudinal decline

B) Nominal rate of decline

C) Normal lapse rate

D) Vertical thermic lapse

Answer: C

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25) Orographic precipitation is caused by what?

A) Moist air cooling as it is forced to higher elevations

B) Dry air warming as it is forced to higher elevations

C) Moist air warming as it is forced to lower elevations

D) Dry air cooling as it is forced to lower

elevations Answer: A

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26) Areas with dry climates on the leeward (downwind) side of mountain

ranges are said to be located in the what?

27) The Chinook winds in the Rocky Mountains and the Santa Ana winds

in Southern California are both examples of winds caused by changes in what? A) Topography

28) In general, warmer air masses can hold moisture than colder air masses

A) More

B) Less

C) About the same

D) Actually there isn't a stable relationship between temperature and moisture in the air

Answer: A

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29) Looking at the maps (Figure 2.12), what part of North America receives the highest levels of precipitation during the summer?

A) The Pacific Northwest

B) The Gulf Coast

C) New England

D) The Great

Plains Answer: B

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30) Looking at the map (Figure 2.13), during what time of the year does

Toronto, Ontario have the most precipitation?

A) During the summer

B) During the winter

C) During the spring and fall

D) Actually the precipitation is even all year

round Answer: D

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31) The process of orographic uplift cools air as it rises over mountain ranges, the opposite process, in which air warms as it descends in elevation, is called what? A) Adiabatic heating

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32) How are people living near the Great Lakes impacted by the weather

changes related to presence of a large body of water?

A) Temperatures are unaffected by the presence of the lakes, and precipitation

33) Parts of the Subarctic climate zone are characterized , in which soils that are totally or partial frozen all year

34) What type of natural vegetation covers most of

Canada? A) Grassland

B) Tundra

C) Needleleaf evergreen forest

D) Mixed broadleaf deciduous and needleleaf evergreen

forest Answer: C

Diff: 2

Chapter Section: Biogeography and Ecology

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