The South, West, and Environmental Change

Multiple Choice

Which one DOES NOT belong?

• Atlantic Coast & Natural Harbors

• Great Lakes and Navigable Rivers

• Fertile Farmland

• Tropical climate all year.

Draw

Draw a picture that shows your best understanding of the vocabulary term.

Multiple Choice

Why did the New South attract industry?

• Technology, resources, and growing cities

• Permanent Isolation

• No transportation

• Colder Climate

Multiple Choice

Sunbelt growth includes much of the--

• South and West

• Arctic only

• Northeast only

• Great Lakes only

Multiple Choice

Why is western settlement uneven?

• Water and landforms vary greatly

• The entire region is flat

• Climate is identical everywhere

• All land is fertile

Multiple Choice

Irrigation most directly changes

• Latitude

• tectonic plates

• water availability

• time zones

Multiple Choice

Which geographic advantage makes Pacific port economically important?

• Access to Atlantic fisheries

• Distance from major markets

• Direct trade routes to Asia

• Separation from transportation networks

Multiple Choice

Which pair represents major western economic specializations?

• Subsistence farming and cottage crafts

• Technology and filmmaking

• Plantation agriculture and textile mills

• One- crop farming and no tourism.

Multiple Choice

Which interaction best explains why the Dust Bowl became so destructive?

• Urban growth plus factory pollution

• Prolonged drought plus damaging land use

• Heavy rainfall plus river flooding

• Earthquakes plus volcanic ash

Multiple Choice

Which population change resulted directly from the Dust Bowl?

• Families returned as the soil immediately recovered.

• Fewer farms were abandoned across the Plains

• Plains cities absorbed all displaced residents

• More than 2 million people left; many moved to California.

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