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Reading Quiz 4 • Due Mar 25 at 11:59pm • Questions 80 Question 1 Essentially the Atlantic Northeast is a region of out-migration. Thetrend has been for Maritimers to move to _____ and northern NewEnglanders to move south. No large influx of immigrants has occurredto compensate. Ontario Question 2 0.5 pts Population numbers are very modest in this region. _____ is the second leastpopulated state (after Wyoming). Vermont Question 3 0.5 pts Maine is the most _____ state east of the Mississippi River. sparsely populated Question 4 0.5 pts The Atlantic Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island arethe _____ of Canada's provinces. poorest Question 5 0.5 pts The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia experiences up to a _____-foot range from high tideto low tide, the greatest on Earth. 53

Question 6 0.5 pts The Green Mountains of Vermont have rounded summits, the result of the great icesheets that covered ridges and valleys alike. The highest peaks are around _____feet above sea level. 4,500 Question 7 0.5 pts The highest points in the _____ Mountains are in the Presidential Range, whereMount Washington reaches an elevation of nearly 6,300 feet. White Question 8 0.5 pts The _____ Lowland and the _____ Valley were severely eroded by tongues of icethat moved southward between the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks, andbetween the Green Mountains and the White Mountains. Lake Champlain/ Connecticut Question 9 0.5 pts Much of the island of Newfoundland is a rolling plateau 500 to 1,000 feet above sealevel, with elevations above _____ feet in the Long Ranges. 3,000 Question 10 0.5 pts The coast of southern _____ is the rugged, elevated, fjorded edge of the CanadianShield and is strewn with small offshore islands. Labrador Question 11 0.5 pts Southeast winds from the warm Gulf Stream blowing across the cold waters betweenthe Gulf of Maine and Newfoundland create the summer _____ characterize thecoasts of New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.

fogs Question 12 0.5 pts The winters at Newfoundland and south coastal Labrador are much colder than arethose in _____ at the same latitude. British Columbia or Britain Question 13 0.5 pts No point in Newfoundland is more than _____ miles from the sea, but the ocean'srelative coldness and the prevailing westerly winds, which bring continentalinfluences, do not permit much amelioration of the temperatures. 90 Question 14 0.5 pts In the ____, all harbors freeze over in the winter, ice sometimes completely blockingthe Strait of Belle Isle. Gulf of St. Lawrence Question 15 0.5 The dominant soils throughout the region are _____, which develop under cool, moistconditions, under a cover of conifer forests; they are thus leached and acidic innature. spodosols Question 16 0.5 pts The sedimentary-floored lowlands give rise to soils that are more fertile for farming;the shales of Vermont and the sandstones of the _____ Valley and Prince EdwardIsland yield more productive agricultural soils than are found elsewhere. Annapolis (Annapolis-Cornwallis) Question 17 0.5 pts

Even today, more than _____ percent of the land is forested by a mixture of northernhardwoods along with pine, spruce, and fir trees 80 Question 18 0.5 pts In terms of the original forest cover, the _____ was the outstanding tree, attaining aheight of 240 feet and a diameter of 6 feet. It was sometimes called the "mastingpine" because the larger trees were reserved for masts for the Royal Navy. white pine Question 19 0.5 pts The wildlife in most of the region is typical for "_____" environment, with the usualnumerous species that one would expect in such a region. a north woods Question 20 0.5 pts The moose is now more numerous and widespread on Newfoundland than the native_____ and has yielded more than 100,000 legal kills to hunters. caribou Question 21 0.5 pts The _____ tribe, of the _____ language family, was dominant throughout theMaritimes. Micmac/ Algonquian Question 22 0.5 pts Speaking of the time right after the landing of the Pilgrims, the _____, then, the firstAmerican frontier. Beckoned by the soil and the sea, their adjustments to the two environments laid the foundations for the land and sea life of the nation. coast was Question 23 0.5 pts

In the Adirondacks, hostile _____ kept the English confined to the Hudson andMohawk Valleys until the close of the Revolutionary War. Iroquois Question 24 0.5 pts The clearing of the forest for farms led to an early development of logging andlumbering, which could be carried on _____, when farm work was not feasible. in winter Question 25 0.5 pts The first permanent settlement in North America _____ was at Port Royal on the Bayof Fundy in 1605. Here the French found salt marshes that needed no clearing. north of Florida Question 26 0.5 pts The reason most commonly given for the "Great Expulsion" was fear on the part ofEngland that such a heavy concentration of _____ in that part of the Maritimes was amenace to English safety. French Question 27 0.5 Despite a hard and lonely life, oriented almost exclusively toward exporting _____,increasing numbers of English and Irish settlers occupied the numerous bays ofsoutheastern Newfoundland through the seventeenth century. salted codfish Question 28 0.5 pts Large migrations of _____ people, principally from the Highlands, came after 1800,dominating the population of Nova Scotia and, to a lesser extent, Prince EdwardIsland. Scottish

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