Geo 330 Exam 2

Front 1

Beale Street

Back 1

"Home of the Blues"

Street in Memphis

Holds music festival every year

Front 2

Headquarters of Coca-Cola

Back 2

Atlanta, GA

Front 3

Charlotte, NC

Back 3

Hubquarter

Major banking and insurance center

Front 4

The Metroplex

Back 4

Dallas-Fort Worth

Petroleum, telecom, computer tech

Front 5

Research Triangle Park

Back 5

Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill

Duke, NC State, UNC

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Memphis International Airport

Back 6

Busiest in air cargo in NA, second in world to Hong Kong

FedEx World Hub accounts for most of airport's revenue

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Mississippi Delta

Back 7

Shrinking

Rising water levels

sand trapped upstream by dams

Wetlands being drained/fillrd near delta (normally absorb floodwaters)

Front 8

Hurricane directions

Back 8

Front 9

Hurricane season

Back 9

Need warm waters

August - October

Front 10

Extratropical stage of hurricanes

Back 10

Reaches mid-high latitudes and starts to die (NE US into Canada)

Front 11

Storm surge

Back 11

Pressure and winds push water into large mound just behind eye

Front 12

Black Seminoles

Back 12

Gullah (escaped slaves) ran away and intermingled with Seminoles

Front 13

Florida Seminoles

Back 13

First to have casinos on their reservations

Own Hard Rock Cafe

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Castillo de San Marcos

Back 14

Oldest intact masonry fort in NA

Coquina - shells cemented together

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Lafayette

Back 15

Center of Cajun culture in Louisiana

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"Holy Trinity"

Back 16

In gumbo, onions, peppers, and celery

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Balfa Brothers

Back 17

First to expose America to Cajun music

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Creole

Back 18

Colonial French, descendants of the original French colonists of the Louisiana territory

Often mixed with African Americans

Front 19

Zydeco

Back 19

Louisiana black Creole music

Front 20

SE Coast and citrus

Back 20

Most grapefruits from Texas coast

74% of oranges in US from Florida (most go to juice)

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Houston and oil

Back 21

Lots of refineries, factories for oil field equipment

Front 22

Energy Corridor District

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Houston, TX

Corporate or regional HQ for BP (US), ConocoPhilips, ExxonMobil, Shell, etc.

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Houston Ship Channel

Back 23

Links Port of Houston to Gulf of Mexico

Important shipping lane to oil industry

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Cancer Alley

Back 24

Lane of high cancer risks in Louisiana among Mississippi River

Over 150 petrochemical plants, produce more than 1/4 of US petrochemicals

Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans

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Margie Richard

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Grassroots movement against petrochemical companies to expose pollution

2004 Goldman Prize

Involved environmental scientist Wilma Subra

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Formation of Yellowstone and the Rockies

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Subduction of a plate underneath the North American plate

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Yellowstone

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MT/WY

First national park in world

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Grand Prismatic Spring

Back 28

Largest hot spring in US

Located in Yellowstone

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Faulting

Back 29

Crust is fractured, crust on either side shifts up or down

Front 30

Front Range/Foothills

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Eastern boundary of Rockies in Colorado

Most of CO population lives here

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Great Continental Divide

Back 31

Fault line that created Rockies extends all along NA and into SA

Divided watersheds that drain to Pacific from those that drain to Atlantic

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Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnel

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Tunnel through the Rockies

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Mount Elbert

Back 33

Highest peak in American Rockies

Front 34

Montana nickname

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"Treasure State"

Gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper

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Butte-Anaconda District, MT

Back 35

Past strip mining

"Richest hill on earth"

Gold, copper

Shut down in 1983

Butte now biggest hazardous waste site in US

Front 36

Winter X Games

Back 36

Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen, CO

Front 37

Tour de Fat

Back 37

Started by New Belgium beer company

Beer, bikes