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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 1/41 Reading Quiz 16 Due Nov 20 at 11:59pm Points 40 Questions 80 Available Nov 7 at 12am - Nov 20 at 11:59pm Time Limit None Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 41 minutes 39.5 out of 40 Score for this quiz: 39.5 out of 40 Submitted Nov 15 at 8:28am This attempt took 41 minutes. 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 1 The region stretches from _____ to _____. northern California/ southeastern Alaska southern Oregon/ southwestern Alaska southern Oregon/ southwestern Alaska southern Oregon/ southwestern Yukon northern California/ southwestern Alaska Correct! Correct! northern California/ southwestern Yukon 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 2
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 2/41 The interior (eastern and northern) boundary of the region is approximately coincidental with the edge of principal mountain ranges. Which is NOT among those principal mountain ranges? the Purcell and Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia Correct! Correct! the Wrangell and Alaska ranges in Alaska the Coast Mountains in British Columbia the Cascade Range in the conterminous states the St. Elias Mountains in Yukon 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 3 The influence of the sea is pervasive throughout the region, although it is somewhat subdued in such sheltered lowlands as Oregon's Willamette Valley and Vancouver Island's _____ coastal plain. western. southwestern eastern Correct! Correct! northern northwestern 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 4
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 3/41 No highway or railway is found along most of the _____ coastline. Alaska and Washington British Columbia and Washington British Columbia and Alaska Correct! Correct! Washington and Oregon Oregon and northern California 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 5 Even the state capital of Alaska--_____--must be accessed either by sea or air. Seward Skagway Cordova Juneau Correct! Correct! Sitka Kodiak 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 6
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 4/41 Within the coastal ranges, the _____ Mountains mass appears as a complicated and disordered complex of slopeland. It is wild and rugged country extending inland to connect with the southern part of the Cascade Range. Klamath Correct! Correct! Shasta Redwood Coast Rogue Sequoia 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 7 Although the highest peak in the Olympic Mountains is less than 8,000 feet, there are _____ named glaciers in the range. 20 Correct! Correct! 30 23 16 27 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 8
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 5/41 In glacial times, a large _____ of ice advanced down Puget Sound and was instrumental in shaping the basin that holds that body of water. moraine cirque lobe Correct! Correct! fjord sheet 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 9 North of Puget Sound the structural trough (or interior trough) persists as the: Vancouver Island Mountains Cascade Range Coast Ranges Strait of Georgia and Queen Charlotte Strait Correct! Correct! Rocky Mountain Trench 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 10 The Cascade Range, extending from _____ in northern California to southern British Columbia, is divided into southern and northern sections
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 6/41 by the deep gorge of the Columbia River. Lake Tahoe Lassen Peak Correct! Correct! Mount Whitney Mount Shasta Burney Falls 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 11 The caldera of the collapsed Mount Mazama is now occupied by: Crater Lake Correct! Correct! Lake Chelan Glacier Lake the Three Sisters Lassen Shasta 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 12 The northern Cascades are _____, rather than volcanic, and are much rockier and more rugged.
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 7/41 igneous shale sedimentary metamorphic granitic Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 13 Some 750 glaciers exist in the north Cascades, which is _____ of all the active glaciers in the conterminous states. Indeed, more than forty glaciers occur on Mount Rainier alone. three-fourths two-thirds Correct! Correct! two-fifths five-sixths one-third 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 14 North of the Fraser Valley, the ranges that correspond to the Cascades are known as the _____ Mountains. St. Elias
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 8/41 Skeena Columbia Coast Correct! Correct! Stikine 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 15 The Coast Mountains of British Columbia plunge directly down to the coast without a fringing lowland, where they are incised by a remarkable series of long _____ and inlets. routes fjords Correct! Correct! passageways estuaries trenches 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 16 Inland from the Gulf of Alaska, where Alaska, Yukon, and British Columbia come together, is the ice-and-rock wilderness of the _____ Mountains. This area contains Canada's highest peak and a dozen peaks higher than any in the conterminous states or elsewhere in Canada. These are the highest coastal mountains in the world, and they encompass the world's most extensive glacial environment outside the polar regions, with several glaciers that are more than 40 miles long.
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 9/41 Wrangell Dawson Chugach Logan St. Elias Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 17 The St. Elias range are the highest coastal mountains in the world, and they encompass the world's most extensive glacial environment outside _____, with several glaciers more than 40 miles long. the polar regions Correct! Correct! Siberia the Alaskan mainland Antarctica Greenland 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 18 Between the _____ Range and the _____ Peninsula is the only extensive lowland in the northern part of the region. About half of it is occupied by the broad bay of Cook Inlet, and the remainder consists of the valleys of the Susitna and Matanuska Rivers.
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 10/41 St. Elias/ Alaska Wrangell/ Alaska Wrangell/ Kenai Alaska/ Alaska Alaska/ Kenai Correct! Correct! St. Elias/ Kenai 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 19 The Alaska Peninsula extends about _____ miles southwest from the mainland of Alaska. Extending westward in a broad arc from there is the _____-mile long chain of the Aleutian Islands. 800/ 1,600 800/ 750 500/ 1,600 500/ 750 500/ 1,000 Correct! Correct! 800/ 1,000 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 20 The Aleutian chain contains about 280 islands, mostly small, but is especially notable in that it has more than twice as many _____ as the
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 11/41 rest of North America combined. active volcanoes Correct! Correct! deepwater ports extra-long fjords fringing reefs tidewater glaciers 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 21 Even the Alaskan Peninsula and Aleutian Islands have an average annual temperature at or above _____, unlike the rest of the state outside of the Northwestern Coast region. freezing Correct! Correct! 0 degrees Fahrenheit minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit 20 degrees Fahrenheit minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 22 During the winter, gigantic cyclonic storm systems, which migrate eastward across the Pacific Basin, bring simultaneous rains for _____ miles north and south along this coastal region.
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 12/41 800 1,300 1,800 1,600 1,000 Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 23 The southwest flank of the _____ Mountains, saturated in winter, has an average annual precipitation of 150 inches, the maximum for the conterminous United States. Coast Cariboo Cascade Vancouver Island Olympic Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 24 The _____ corner of Vancouver Island records 250 inches of precipitation annually and is considered the wettest spot in continental North America. north-central
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 13/41 southwestern northeastern northwestern Correct! Correct! southeastern east-central west-central south-central 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 25 The western slope of the Cascades in US and the Coast Mountains of Canada gets nearly 100 inches of precipitation, mainly as: light drizzling rain in the spring winter snows Correct! Correct! hail and freezing rain light drizzling rain in the fall summer thunderstorms 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 26 Throughout most of the region, the average number of clear days each year is less than _____; Juneau, for example, records only 45.
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 14/41 95 90 65 80 85 75 55 70 60 100 Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 27 Along the coasts of Oregon and Washington and in the Cascade Mountains, _____ is the dominant tree, constituting one of the major lumber trees of the continent. red cedar Engelmann spruce ponderosa pine blue spruce Douglas fir Correct! Correct!
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 15/41 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 28 The _____ is the leading tree in southeastern Alaska, but cedars and hemlocks are found here as well. Sitka spruce Correct! Correct! Gambel oak Engelmann spruce Douglas fir Puget Sound pine 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 29 The Willamette Valley's original vegetative cover may have been prairie grass, although some scholars believe that the original prairies were artificially generated and maintained by annual _____ by the Native Americans. fires set Correct! Correct! logging crop growing grass cutting cattle herding
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 16/41 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 30 Which area of the region is generally treeless? Vancouver Island the Aleutian Islands and southwest portion of the Alaska Peninsula Correct! Correct! British Columbia's coast the southeast Alaskan coast Oregon's coast 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 31 Which is NOT true regarding the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest? there were Salishan, Nootka, and other groups in British Columbia there were Algonquian groups in northern California the Haida and Tlingit were in southeastern Alaska there were Bellacoolas in western Washington Correct! Correct! there were Chinook groups in the Columbia River area 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 32
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 17/41 The native population built impressive buildings of evergreen planks, fashioned large dugout canoes from the native cedars, and, particularly in the north, became skilled artisans and woodcarvers--with giant _____ as their most lasting achievements. sacrificial temples totem poles Correct! Correct! communal "potlatch" buildings salmon catching nets harpooning ships 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 33 In terms of the native groups of the Northwest, the _____ were proud, well organized, and resourceful; for several decades, they exerted both political and economic hegemony in the Alaska panhandle area, controlling trade in the area, and between other native groups and the Europeans. Tlingits Correct! Correct! Nootkas Bellacoolas Chinooks Athabascans
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 18/41 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 34 There are about 200,000 native people, organized in some 200 bands, in: Yukon California Washington Oregon British Columbia Correct! Correct! Alaska 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 35 There may have been 25,000 Aleuts at the time of Russian contact in the eighteenth century. They were killed and enslaved by the Russian fur seekers, and in relatively few years, their number was reduced by some _____ percent. 50 75 90 Correct! Correct! 85 95 60 65
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 19/41 55 70 80 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 36 Which country had NOT, by the end of the eighteenth century, explored and claimed at least part of the Pacific Coast of North America? Great Britain the United States Russia Mexico Correct! Correct! Spain 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 37 Following the Lewis and Clark expedition, the American Fur Company in 1810 established a trading post at _____, at the mouth of the Columbia River. Victoria Astoria Correct! Correct! Bellingham
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 20/41 Vancouver Portland Tacoma Olympia 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 38 The city of _____ prospered as the transshipment point and funnel for the British Columbia gold fields in the same way that San Francisco did for the California mining areas. Comox Nanaimo Prince Rupert Victoria Correct! Correct! Vancouver 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 39 Russia did not want to sell Alaska to _____, their bitter enemy in the Crimean War of the 1850s, and therefore offered it to the US. France Portugal
11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 21/41 Spain Great Britain Correct! Correct! Finland Sweden 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 40 The important _____ connections that the cities of the Northwest had made possible the exploitation of the great forest resources, which became important at around the beginning of the twentieth century and also contributed to the industrial development and urban growth of that part of the region. coal mining rail Correct! Correct! sea river hard rock mining 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 41 Where was the final destination for the miners of the Klondike gold rush? headwaters of the Yukon River Dawson Correct! Correct!
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 22/41 Dyea Chilkoot Pass Skagway White Pass 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 42 More than half the people of Alaska live within _____ miles of Anchorage. 50 120 40 Correct! Correct! 75 20 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 43 _____ constitutes about half of both the sawtimber volume and cut of this region. Douglas fir Correct! Correct! Engelmann spruce Western red cedar
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 23/41 Sitka spruce Western hemlock Blue spruce 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 44 Oregon, Washington, and California were the leading lumber-producing states for many decades, but are now facing leadership challenges from several _____ states. Appalachian upper Midwestern northeastern mid-Atlantic southeastern Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 45 In 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) was adopted by the _____ government. Oregon state Alaska state Washington state
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 24/41 federal government Correct! Correct! California state 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 46 The federal government decreed a moratorium on timber cutting in some old-growth forests and greatly reduced the allowable cut in others, because of the apparent danger to the survival of the northern _____, an endangered species. great cormorant black bear timber wolf tree frog spotted owl Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 47 Which group was NOT a principal stakeholder that participated in the four years of "consultation" that produced the Clayoquot Compromise in 1993 regarding logging in British Columbia. provincial government local citizenry groups conservation organizations
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 25/41 forest products industry tourism industry representatives Correct! Correct! First Nations representatives 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 48 Integration of logging, transportation, processing, and manufacturing operations is widespread in western Oregon and Washington but is most notable in the _____ area of British Columbia, where functional interconnection in terms of both areal space and corporate organization is tightly knit. Strait of Georgia Correct! Correct! Inside Passage Queen Charlotte Strait Vancouver Island Queen Charlotte Sound 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 49 _____, particularly in the United States, is the largest market for the lumber producers of both the United States and Canada. Book publication Demand for cardboard boxes, closely associated with online shopping
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 26/41 Wood chips for playgrounds Forms for concrete pouring Home construction Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 50 The dominant farming activity of the region, and which accounts for a large part of all agricultural land, is: cotton growing the growing of oats and rye apple growing dairying Correct! Correct! berry growing 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 51 Which is NOT one of the locally important agricultural areas that contain most of the crop land in the region? southeastern Vancouver Island Willamette Valley in Oregon lowlands around Puget Sound in Washington lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 27/41 northeastern Olympic Peninsula in Washington Correct! Correct! Umpqua and Rogue River valleys of southwestern Oregon Cowlitz and Chehalis Valleys in Washington Bellingham lowland in Washington 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 52 The largest and best developed agricultural area in the region is the _____, with more than 2 million acres in crops. Cowlitz and Chehalis valleys lower Fraser Valley northeastern Olympic Peninsula southeastern Vancouver Island Bellingham lowland lowlands around Puget Sound Umpqua and Rogue River valleys Willamette Valley Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 53 The lower floodplains and deltas of four medium-sized rivers, often collectively referred to as the _____ Plain, occupy most of the eastern fringe of Puget Sound north of Seattle.
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 28/41 Tacoma Darrington Bellingham Correct! Correct! Burlington Everett 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 54 Farming in the British Columbia portion of this region is concentrated of the floodplain and delta of the _____ River and on southeastern Vancouver Island. Skagit Fraser Correct! Correct! Columbia Prince George Whistler 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 55 The leading agricultural industry of the Lower Fraser Valley is the production of whole milk for the _____ market. Portland
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 29/41 Puget Sound Vancouver Island Vancouver Correct! Correct! Victoria 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 56 The southeastern lowlands of Vancouver Island specializes in growing _____ for eastern Canadian markets. wheat and barley tomatoes and potatoes oats and rye spring flowers Correct! Correct! cauliflower and cabbage 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 57 In British Columbia _____ is an export worth several billion dollars per year, ranking with forest products and tourism as the leading businesses in the province. zinc lead ore
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 30/41 marijuana Correct! Correct! berry growing cotton growing 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 58 In the Matanuska Valley of Alaska, the growing season is short but summer days are so long (_____ hours) that cabbages can exceed 90 pounds and turnips 30 pounds. These are certainly among the largest vegetables in the world! 15-16 17-18 21-22 19-20 Correct! Correct! 23-24 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 59 In Canada, about _____ of farmed salmon come from British Columbia, making up by far the most valuable aquaculture in the country. three-fifths two-fifths three-fourths
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 31/41 two-thirds Correct! Correct! one-half 0 / 0.5 pts Question 60 Which is NOT a major pelagic (surface or mid-level feeder) fish from the waters of the Pacific Northwest? Pacific cod haddock orrect Answer orrect Answer herring Pacific perch flounder hake pollock ou Answered ou Answered salmon 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 61 _____ is the largest and most valuable of the bottom fish of the north Pacific. They are long-lived (up to 35 years) and can reach enormous size (up to 500 pounds). Halibut Correct! Correct!
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 32/41 Herring Alaska King Crab Haddock Cod 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 62 King crabs were caught in the Gulf of Alaska beginning in about _____, and they reached their peak in terms of being caught in _____. Since that time, there has been a dramatic decline. 1940/ 2000 1940/ 1980 1960/ 2000 1940/ 1960 1960/ 1980 Correct! Correct! 1980/ 2000 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 63 Alaska is by far the leading fishing state in the US, in both quantity and value. Most fishing occurs in the waters of the north Pacific, including the Gulf of Alaska and the waters _____ of the Aleutian Islands. south and east
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 33/41 south and west north and west east and west north and east south and north Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 64 British Columbia is Canada's largest fishing province, with _____ as its leading fishing port. Port Alberni Vancouver Port McNeill Nanaimo Comox Port Hardy Prince Rupert Correct! Correct! Victoria 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 65
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 34/41 The principal markets for Columbia Basin power have been the large cities of Washington and Oregon and major _____ factories, most of which are in the Pacific Northwest. electronics equipment copper smelting railroad locomotive aluminum Correct! Correct! fish processing 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 66 In 1989 an oil tanker collided with an underwater reef in the Prince William Sound, near the southern terminus of the Alaska pipeline at the town of: San Juan Seward Valdez Correct! Correct! Wasilla Cordova 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 67
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 35/41 The city of Portland's dual harbor facilities, part on the Columbia River and part on the _____ River, are among the most modern in the nation. Fraser Willamette Correct! Correct! Skagit Wenatchee Yakima 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 68 The Oregon state legislature enacted a law in the early 1970s mandating _____ for Oregon's cities. urban growth boundaries Correct! Correct! reduced paper usage (to help preserve timber) bicycle lanes carpool days no more self-serve gasoline pumping 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 69 The deep and well-protected harbor at _____ requires no dredging and this city has long been a major Pacific-oriented port as well as the
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 36/41 principal gateway to Alaska. Portland Victoria Tacoma Seattle Correct! Correct! Vancouver 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 70 The city of Vancouver overcame its early rivalry with _____ for economic dominance of British Columbia and has grown to become Canada's top- ranking port. Prince Rupert Whistler Prince George Nanaimo Victoria Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 71 Vancouver is clearly the primate city of western Canada as well as one of the nation's _____ largest industrial centers.
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 37/41 seven six five Correct! Correct! three four 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 72 Victoria is among the continent's most attractive cities and it has Canada's _____, which makes it a major destination for tourists and retirees. most productive agriculture mildest climate Correct! Correct! most significant museums cheapest housing best golf courses 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 73 Anchorage is clearly the primate city of Alaska as it is much than _____, the second largest city in the state. Kodiak Fairbanks Correct! Correct!
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 38/41 Homer Sitka Juneau Nome Ketchikan Seward 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 74 In the long stretch of coastland between Vancouver and Anchorage, only the dual towns of _____ and Kitimat, on the north coast of British Columbia, have useful surface transport connections with the rest of the continent. Comox Prince George Nanaimo Prince Rupert Correct! Correct! Whistler 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 75 On the Alaska panhandle, only _____ has land transport connections with the rest of the world. The others are all situated on islands or on mountain-girt peninsulas (and are thus only accessible by boat or plane).
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11/15/23, 10:27 AM Reading Quiz 16: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230318 39/41 Skagway Correct! Correct! Ketchikan Sitka Juneau Petersburg 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 76 According to the text, one of the finest combined scenic-and-sandy coastlines in the world is the: Strait of Juan de Fuca Vancouver Island Oregon coast Correct! Correct! Alaskan Peninsula coast Inside Passage 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 77 Around _____ cruises ply the Inside Passage each summer, and each ship carries several hundred passengers. 240 140
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