Exam 2: North America

The Great Lakes are depressions left by glacial scouring.

The estimated job impact of NAFTA on the United States has been a net:

The Appalachian Mountains stretch from New Brunswick and New Jersey to Georgia.

What is the main source of moisture east of the Rocky Mountains?

Which of the following features on the North American physical landscape is the work of glaciers that once covered large parts of the continent as recently as 10,000 years ago?

Today,nuclear families comprise about 75 percent of American households.

The largest concentration of Canadians is located in what part of Canada?

The first humans to North America were most likely Viking explorers who came across the north Atlantic Ocean in sailing vessels.

According to the text,what is a characteristic of most new immigrants to the United States?

Briefly define clear-cutting,the cheapest and most widely practiced method of timber harvesting in North America,and discuss three environmental costs of clear-cutting,including the potential problem with clear-cut land that has been reforested.

What term refers to spatial inequity in the availability of information technology,such as the Internet?

The United States __________ has made possible the dispersal of industry and related services into suburban and rural locales across the country.

The term used to describe the road,rail,and communication systems that help an area prosper is:

What agreement between the United States,Canada,and Mexico did the U.S.legislature create in 1994?

In the culture of poverty,impoverished individuals must find coping strategies that may be counterproductive to social advancement,thereby reinforcing poverty.

Given the high value of water,it is safe to conclude that most Americans greatly underpay for their current water supply.

The Interstate Highway System has largely replaced the national railway network for the long-distance transportation of cargo.

The Nunavut and Dogrib territories are located in southern Canada.

Levees and other flood-control measures in Louisiana are causing the Mississippi delta to sink into the Gulf of Mexico.

Approximately how many people live in North America?