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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 18 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 18 - Questions and Answers Which parts of northern North America were NOT glaciated during the Ice Age? Much of northern and central Alaska The community of Rankin Inlet started out as a _____ town. It lost in a referendum on being Nunavut's capital city, but it has remained a place of significance, primarily as a community of Inuit artists, with a heavy emphasis on artistic ceramics production. Mining At Thule Air Base in far northern Greenland, the sun never sets for ne...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 17 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 17 - Questions and Answers Besides its area in Yukon Territory, the landform called "Yukon Basin and Plateaus" is found largely within _____ Alaska. Central Canada is one of the six mining "superpowers" in the world, along with: China, Russia, the United States, Australia, and South Africa The Klondike gold rush (the last major gold rush in North America in the late 1890s) took place near the upper reaches of the _____ River. Yukon The town of Yellowknife is on the sho...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 16 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 16 - Questions and Answers Which metro area is NOT in Oregon? Bellingham Certain places along the British Columbia and Alaska coastline may only be reached by sea or air. Among these include _____ and _____. Ketchikan/ Juneau The _____ river and valley of Oregon reach their northern end near the city of Portland. Willamette Anchorage, the largest metro area in Alaska, has strong ties to the _____ metro area, with multiple flights daily to that destination. Seattle The Klam...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 14 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 14 - Questions and Answers The Gila Wilderness area is a large portion of land in: southwest New Mexico Arizona produces about _____% of the nation's copper. 60 The _____ Rim is the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau in much of Arizona. Mogollon The Sonoran Desert has the greatest amount of _____ for any desert in the world. Vegetation Long-distance canals carrying water from the Colorado River reach as far as _____ (in southern California) and _____ (in southern Arizo...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 13 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 13 - Questions and Answers Certain areas within the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada have become major centers for the production of _____ energy, and, along the eastern margins of the Mojave Desert, in California, there are localities producing _____ energy. solar/ wind Numerous mountain ranges of the Great Basin are found: all of the other answers to this question are correct The rapid outflowing of ancient glacial Lake _____ and its associated fast-moving floods f...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 12 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 12 - Questions and Answers In much of the Rocky Mountains, there are very strong contrasts regarding slope aspect. What is the true statement regarding this? north-facing slopes are cooler, retain more moisture, and have more vegetation The San Juan Mountains, which are part of the Southern Rockies, is the high range found in a sizable area of _____ Colorado. Southwestern Which of the following is NOT among the large metro areas that are just outside of the Rocky Mountains...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 11 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 11 - Questions and Answers _____ initially brought Vietnamese and Laotian refugees into selected areas of the Great Plains in the 1970s and 1980s; later on Latin American immigrants began working at the same establishments. meat-packing plants The largest indoor shopping mall in the entire Western Hemisphere is at _____. The fact that this mall has not only shopping--but also lots of entertainment--fully indoors is a testament to the harshness of the winters experienced at...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 10 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 10 - Questions and Answers The _____ metro area meets the _____ metro area at the international boundary, and together they form a larger bi-national metro area. Detroit/ Windsor The most ethnically diverse metro area in North America is: Toronto The nickname for much of the Midwest in terms of its manufacturing (especially after the closures of many factories in the region) is the: Rustbelt What is true about using the term "Midwest" to describe this region? after the L...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 9 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 9 - Questions and Answers Houston is known as one of the most _____ large cities in America. Affordable Jacksonville is near the mouth of the _____ River. St. Johns _____, Florida (the furthest point from Miami) can be reached by car over a lengthy highway--a highway that bridges shallow water and connects various islands together. Key West The cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, and Newport News (all in southeast Virginia) are collectively ...
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 8 - Questions and Answers
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GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 8 - Questions and Answers The Grand Prairie of Arkansas (between the Arkansas and White Rivers) specializes in growing _____, and produces over half of this product in US. Rice _____ is the most important city in the Interior Lowlands that's on the Cumberland River. Nashville Which city is NOT on or near the Fall Line? Birmingham Furniture factories are found in the Piedmont city of: Greenville, South Carolina The _____, on the far western side of the state, contains some...
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