GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 8

GCU 322 Lecture Quiz 8

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 the best agricultural land in the state of Kentucky.Jackson Purchase

_____ is a major hub of FedEx (the other is Indianapolis), while _____ is a major hub of UPS.Memphis/ Louisville

Charlotte is the leading center for _____ separate metro areas on the Piedmont of North Carolina and South Carolina.8

While urban sprawl has occurred in all of the following metro areas, which one has the worst reputation in this regard?Atlanta

The Piedmont (but close to Appalachians) city of _____ first started to grow as a railroad hub--as a place where rail lines from the Mississippi Valley and the Eastern Seaboard met. This hub location was duplicated later on when it became the major air- traffic center of the Southeast.Atlanta

The unofficial "capital" of the "Delta" of northwest Mississippi (the Yazoo Delta--even

though it really isn't a river delta) is the city of:

Memphis

Research Triangle Park is in the middle of the _____ and _____ metro areas.Raleigh/ Durham-Chapel Hill

The _____ is found in north-central Tennessee and south-central Kentucky and is comprised of much limestone, which (along with other factors) helped create the Mammoth Cave (now a national park) in south-central Kentucky.Pennyroyal Plateau

• metro areas in the Inland South rank between 42-50 nationally in population. Which

metro area in the Inland South is NOT included in that group?Little Rock

Among the several "push" factors that prompted many African Americans to move out of

the South starting in the 1920s was the desire to escape persistent:

racial discrimination

The metro area that is the fast-growing and leading high tech center of the Inland South

is:

Austin

What is the nickname for the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area?the Metroplex

Which is NOT correct in terms of "foreign" carmakers and their assembly plants in the Inland South region?Nissan is in Arkansas

The entire gradient of the Ohio River, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois, is a 6-inch drop in elevation for every mile of river distance. However, there is an abrupt drop of 25 feet (the "Falls of the Ohio") at _____, which falls were the major reason that a city began at that location.Louisville

In addition to growing cotton (although it is no longer as dominant in the South as it once was), the "Delta" of northwest Mississippi (the Yazoo Delta--even though it really

isn't a river delta), grows soybeans, has tree farms, and raises:

Catfish

The Kentucky city that's in the middle of the Bluegrass region is:

Lexington