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What sector benefits from Florida’s cruise ports?

  • Inland coal railways
  • Cruise travel and related services
  • High-altitude mountaineering
  • Downhill ski resorts
Correct answer(s):
  • Cruise travel and related services

Which activities are handled by PortMiami?

  • Only freshwater fishing
  • Only mountain rail travel
  • Cruises and commercial shipping
  • Only aerospace launches
Correct answer(s):
  • Cruises and commercial shipping

What activity is important at Jacksonville’s seaport?

  • Cargo movement and logistics
  • Mountain skiing
  • Deep-desert irrigation
  • Gold mining
Correct answer(s):
  • Cargo movement and logistics

Which broad international region is closely linked to Miami’s trade and culture?

  • Arctic Scandinavia alone
  • Interior Siberia alone
  • Central Asia alone
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
Correct answer(s):
  • Latin America and the Caribbean

Which set of industries commonly benefits from Orlando’s tourism economy?

  • Mountain logging, glacier tours and ski lifts
  • Ice fishing, tundra mining and snow removal
  • Desert uranium mining alone
  • Hotels, restaurants, conventions and transport
Correct answer(s):
  • Hotels, restaurants, conventions and transport

What economic activities are especially associated with Fort Lauderdale?

  • Alpine skiing and ice climbing
  • Marine business and tourism
  • Coal mining and steel mills
  • Wheat farming and grain elevators only
Correct answer(s):
  • Marine business and tourism

Which citrus fruit has long been grown commercially in Florida?

  • Crabapple
  • Orange
  • Lime from Greenland
  • Cranberry
Correct answer(s):
  • Orange

Besides citrus, which berry is grown on Florida farms?

  • Strawberry
  • Lingonberry
  • Cloudberry
  • Bilberry
Correct answer(s):
  • Strawberry

Which Florida metropolitan area is especially associated with major theme parks?

  • Gainesville region
  • Pensacola region
  • Tallahassee region
  • Orlando region
Correct answer(s):
  • Orlando region

What can affect Georgia’s measured household-income change besides individual pay changes?

  • Only changes in the number of state symbols
  • Changes in sea level with no income connection
  • Changes in household composition
  • Only changes in the state’s postal abbreviation
Correct answer(s):
  • Changes in household composition

Georgia’s nominal and real GDP were 884,844.7 and 699,540.6 million in 2024, and 936,086.7 and 719,741.7 million in 2025. What is the approximate percentage change in the nominal-to-real ratio?

  • 5.79%
  • 8.68%
  • 2.82%
  • 2.89%
Correct answer(s):
  • 2.82%

What should be checked before treating a small difference in ACS estimates between Georgia communities as meaningful?

  • Margins of error and statistical uncertainty
  • Only the number of digits printed
  • Only the alphabetical order of community names
  • Only which figure appears first in a table
Correct answer(s):
  • Margins of error and statistical uncertainty

How should annual Georgia GDP divided by July population be labeled?

  • An approximation with the denominator disclosed
  • A direct estimate of median household wages
  • Automatically identical to every official per-capita series
  • A quarterly labor-productivity measurement
Correct answer(s):
  • An approximation with the denominator disclosed

How should a five-year ACS estimate for a Georgia community be interpreted?

  • As five independent complete censuses
  • As a pooled period estimate
  • As a forecast for the following five years
  • As a count taken only on the final December 31
Correct answer(s):
  • As a pooled period estimate

What should remain fixed when comparing revisions to Georgia GDP?

  • The measurement year and GDP concept
  • Only the number of displayed decimal places
  • Only the download date
  • The release vintage but not the measured year
Correct answer(s):
  • The measurement year and GDP concept

Why are overlapping five-year ACS periods not independent observations?

  • They always use different populations by definition
  • They cover entirely separate time intervals
  • They contain no sample uncertainty
  • They share some survey years and observations
Correct answer(s):
  • They share some survey years and observations

What is wrong with comparing Georgia nominal GDP directly with another state’s real GDP for the same year?

  • Their population totals must be equal
  • Their industry lists must contain no services
  • Their price bases are inconsistent
  • Their geographic units must be identical counties
Correct answer(s):
  • Their price bases are inconsistent

Why is Georgia GDP per resident not the same as labor productivity?

  • The denominator includes people who are not employed
  • State GDP excludes all output by workers
  • Population measures only full-time employees
  • Every resident works the same number of hours
Correct answer(s):
  • The denominator includes people who are not employed

Why is higher GDP per worker not direct proof of greater individual effort?

  • All industries use identical equipment
  • Capital intensity can affect output per worker
  • Industrial classification removes capital effects
  • Worker effort alone determines measured GDP
Correct answer(s):
  • Capital intensity can affect output per worker

Why is the gross value of goods through Savannah’s port different from Georgia value added?

  • Every cargo shipment is produced entirely in Savannah
  • Port activity is omitted from all state accounts
  • Cargo value includes production beyond local port services
  • Cargo value measures only dockworkers’ wages
Correct answer(s):
  • Cargo value includes production beyond local port services