Exam 2: North America

Underground water basins are called:

In both the United States and Canada,approximately 90 percent of workers are employed in service industries.

Corporate agriculture has brought to farm communities a social structure of:

What organization was behind the September 11,2001,attacks on the United States?

Roughly __________ percent of the oil used in the United States comes from Canada.

Married couples in which both spouses have a college education are more likely to divorce.

Which of the following is NOT a port city?

Women currently represent more than half of the North American labor force.

The majority of Native Americans now live in Canada.

Which of the following does NOT explain why the mid-Atlantic colonies (New York,New Jersey,and Pennsylvania)surpassed the colonies of New England and southeastern Canada,economically and in population?

By the mid-nineteenth century,North America's economy was based on which industry?

The logging method by which all trees on a given plot of land are cut down,regardless of age,health,or species,is known as:

San Diego,Los Angeles,San Francisco,Portland,Seattle,and Vancouver are all:

The warm ocean current that flows up the eastern seaboard of North America from the tropics is called the:

Immigrants in North America are most likely to compete for jobs with:

Which organization claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks on the United States?

Which of the following is NOT an effect of massive,interstate,water engineering projects in the Southwest?

Agriculture and the presence of surplus food gave rise to city-like settlements in North America.

The term coined to describe the urban band from Boston to Washington,DC,is:

Most Native American reservations in the United States are self-sufficient and have abundant resources.