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GCU 322 Map Quiz 11 - Questions and Answers Which is NOT in North Dakota? Rapid City Devils Tower is in: northeastern Wyoming The capital cities of both _____ are on the Missouri River. North Dakota and South Dakota Which is closest to Denver? Cheyenne Which is furthest from Oklahoma City? Amarillo The eastern side of _____ is NOT in the Great Plains. Nebraska The Sand Hills are in: central Nebraska Which city is NOT on the Arkansas River? Grand Island Which is furthest from Denver? Casper Bad...

GCU 322 Map Quiz 10 - Questions and Answers Which is furthest east? Ottawa Which is furthest from Chicago? Detroit Which is furthest from Toronto? Kitchener Saginaw is closest to: Sarnia Which is furthest south? Madison Which is furthest west? Manhattan What is in between Milwaukee and Minneapolis/St. Paul? La Crosse Which is NOT in Ohio? Fort Wayne Which is furthest from Lake Ontario? Barrie Which is closest to Cincinnati? Indianapolis

GCU 322 Map Quiz 9 - Questions and Answers Which is furthest from Orlando? Fort Myers Which is furthest from Houston? Lake Charles Which is a NOT a coastal city? Orlando Which is furthest from Virginia Beach? Greenville Which is on the coast? Sarasota Which is furthest from Tampa? Panama City Which is the only Alabama city shown on the map? Mobile Which is NOT on the Atlantic Ocean? Orlando Brownsville is next to the border with: Mexico Which is furthest from Jacksonville? Orlando

GCU 322 Map Quiz 8 - Questions and Answers Which city is closest to Memphis? Little Rock _____ is on the Savannah River. Augusta Which is NOT in Texas? Shreveport Which is furthest from Dallas? Longview Raleigh is roughly halfway between: Richmond and Charlotte Columbia is on the _____ River. Broad Which city is closest to the area labeled "Mississippi Delta" on the map? Memphis Which cities are in between Dallas and Austin? Temple and Waco _____ is on the James River. Richmond Nashville is ...

GCU 322 Map Quiz 6 - Questions and Answers Which city is on the Potomac River? Washington, DC Which is NOT in New Jersey? Yonkers Wilmington and Dover are in: Delaware Which of the following is NOT part of the New York City metropolitan area? Bridgeport Which river is NOT in New York State? Merrimack Which river forms the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania? Delaware Which 2 cities are on Chesapeake Bay? Annapolis and Baltimore Which is NOT in eastern Massachusetts? Connecticut River ...

GCU 322 Map Quiz 5 - Questions and Answers What separates Quebec from Newfoundland? Gulf of St. Lawrence Which is furthest west? Trois-Rivieres Gatineau St. Jerome Montreal Quebec City Which 2 cities on the map are part of New Brunswick? Bathurst and Edmundston Which is furthest east? Montreal St. Jerome Drummondville Gatineau Sherbrooke Which is furthest east? Saguenay Rimouski Sept-iles Edmundston Trois-Rivieres Which is the furthest south? Saguenay Quebec City Gatineau Trois-Rivieres Rimous...

GCU 322 Map Quiz 4 - Questions and Answers St. John's (with the "s") is the capital and largest city of: Newfoundland The Annapolis Valley is part of: Nova Scotia The Strait of Belle Isle separates: Newfoundland from Labrador Mt. Washington, the highest point in the region, is found in: New Hampshire The White Mountains are found in: Maine and New Hampshire The Kennebec River is found in: Maine The Bay of Fundy separates Nova Scotia from: Maine and New Brunswick Charlottetown is the capital...

GCU 322 Map Quiz 2 - Questions and Answers Which landform region is found in US, but not in Canada? Interior Uplands Which landform region stretches from the US-Mexico boundary all the way to the Arctic coast? Interior Plains Which state does NOT have both the Interior Plains and the Appalachian Uplands within its boundaries? Virginia Which state or province does NOT have both the Intermontane Region and the Pacific Coast Region within its boundaries? Alaska Which southern state does NOT have ...

GCU 322 Map Quiz 1 - Questions and Answers Which state does NOT have land that was part of the "California and the Southwest cession from Mexico" category? Oklahoma Which state has land split only between the "Louisiana Purchase from France" and the "Treaty of Oregon" categories? Montana While it is quite well known that the US has four states that meet at a single point (the "Four Corners" states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah). Lesser known is the fact that Canada also ha...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 6 - Questions and Answers 80% of the land in Megalopolis is nonurban, and the majority of this is comprised of: Forest The very first factories in America were powered at the Fall Line of the _____ River. Merrimack Metro Baltimore has nearly _____ of Maryland's population. Half In the 1600s, the Dutch purchased _____ Island from the local Indians for $24 ($5,000 in today's money) worth of beads and trinkets. Manhattan The most populous city in Delaware, _____, is part of...