GCU 322 Reading Quiz 6 - Questions and Answers

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 6 - Questions and Answers _____ is the only borough of New York City that is on the continental mainland. The Bronx The Narragansett Basin has been hit hard by the drop in textile worker employment. The textile industry once employed more than half of all manufacturing workers in _____; it now provides jobs for only one-tenth of the total. Providence The _____ "River" is actually a tidal estuary connecting New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. East There are _____ miles of subway routes in New York City. 250 In the New York City metro area, the containerized cargo handling facilities of Port _____ and Port Newark are among the finest and most extensive in the world, and much of New York's general cargo traffic funnels through these facilities. Elizabeth Philadelphia was founded on well-drained land near the confluence of the _____ and Delaware Rivers. Schuylkill Precipitation is generally fairly high, with most of the region receiving between _____ inches annually. 40 and 45 The Pine Barrens area in _____ has remained practically intact for several hundred years, mostly because of poor agricultural potential. New Jersey The remaining farms of Megalopolis tend to be efficient and specialized, emphasizing on the production of: Perishables The New York-Newark MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area, or metropolitan area) has around _____ million people. 20 Atlantic City is now the _____-leading gambling town. Currently there are nine major hotel-casinos there. Second Boston has one of the first beltways completed around a major American city, known as the Circumferential Highway, or Route _____, at a radius of about 12 miles from the city center (it is sometimes referred to as the "electronics parkway"). 128 In the Connecticut Valley there is a notable concentration of the nation's insurance industry in: Hartford Brooklyn occupies the southwestern tip of _____ Island. Long In metropolitan Washington, one of the most rapidly growing counties in the US is _____ County, with a current population of over 1.1 million (out of 6.2 million in the whole metro area). Fairfax The Wall Street financial district with its cluster of skyscrapers is in: Lower Manhattan In New York City, the three securities exchanges (stock markets) handle nearly _____ of the organized stock and bond transactions of the country nine-tenths _____ do well in southern New Jersey in part because of the acidic, sandy soils. Cranberries Which of the following is NOT a leading beach resort in Megalopolis? Delmarva Island Megalopolis has 52 million people, of which nearly _____ is urban. 90 Fenway Park in Boston derives its name from fen, defined as _____ land. low and marshy Connecticut was _____ wooded in 1850 and is _____ wooded today--and the trend seems likely to continue for some time. one-third/ two-thirds The deer population in Megalopolis is now greater than it was in former times, and many areas actually have more woodland than they had a century ago, in part because of: farm abandonment