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New Jersey Economic Geography

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Which factors determine the market value of a New Jersey crop harvest?

  • Only the number of school districts
  • Only the state’s population density
  • County names and election cycles
  • Quantity produced and selling prices
Correct answer(s):
  • Quantity produced and selling prices

Why can New Jersey specialty-crop farms benefit from nearby northeastern cities?

  • All local roads are closed
  • All produce must cross the Pacific
  • Quick access to large markets for perishable produce
  • Metropolitan consumers cannot buy local crops
Correct answer(s):
  • Quick access to large markets for perishable produce

What is economic diversification?

  • Making every employer produce the same product
  • Having several industries with different responses to shocks
  • Eliminating the service sector
  • Relying entirely on one seasonal business
Correct answer(s):
  • Having several industries with different responses to shocks

Which activities commonly gain from busy New Jersey seaports?

  • Only inland cattle ranching
  • Only mountain skiing
  • Freight handling, trucking, rail transport, storage, and services
  • Only offshore fishing
Correct answer(s):
  • Freight handling, trucking, rail transport, storage, and services

What happens in an intermodal freight network?

  • Each shipment avoids inland markets
  • Goods transfer among ships, trains, and trucks
  • Containers never change transport modes
  • Cargo is carried only by air balloons
Correct answer(s):
  • Goods transfer among ships, trains, and trucks

Why can air cargo and seaports both be useful in one regional economy?

  • They suit different cargo urgency, costs, and shipment types
  • They always transport exactly the same goods at the same speed
  • Seaports connect no markets
  • Air cargo can carry only passengers
Correct answer(s):
  • They suit different cargo urgency, costs, and shipment types

Why can New Jersey residents’ earnings differ from output produced inside the state?

  • State GDP is always identical to wages
  • All workers must live where they work
  • Commuting has been outlawed
  • Some residents work in New York or Pennsylvania
Correct answer(s):
  • Some residents work in New York or Pennsylvania

What is one economic benefit of dense regional markets and transport links?

  • Automatic elimination of every business cost
  • Guarantee of zero congestion
  • Easier matching of firms, workers, suppliers, and customers
  • Permanent price controls
Correct answer(s):
  • Easier matching of firms, workers, suppliers, and customers

What is a potential cost of intense development along New Jersey’s transport corridors?

  • No demand for infrastructure
  • Higher land costs and congestion
  • Elimination of all commute times
  • Unlimited free land
Correct answer(s):
  • Higher land costs and congestion

Why might shore hospitality hiring change strongly by season?

  • Tourism demand rises and falls over the year
  • All beaches are closed during summer
  • Tourism jobs depend only on GDP revisions
  • Every resort receives identical daily visitors year-round
Correct answer(s):
  • Tourism demand rises and falls over the year

Why do freight corridors encourage warehouse development in New Jersey?

  • They connect ports with customers and inland markets
  • They make all delivery distances identical
  • They prevent shipments from leaving ports
  • They remove the need for roads
Correct answer(s):
  • They connect ports with customers and inland markets

How do New Jersey and New York City economies interact?

  • Only through foreign shipping
  • They have no business connections
  • Through a complete ban on cross-border trade
  • Through commuting, businesses, and linked labor markets
Correct answer(s):
  • Through commuting, businesses, and linked labor markets

With which major city are southwestern New Jersey communities strongly linked?

  • Phoenix
  • Denver
  • Philadelphia
  • San Francisco
Correct answer(s):
  • Philadelphia

In port geography, what is a hinterland?

  • Only the dock beside a single ship
  • The inland area served by the port’s transport connections
  • The international waters beyond any coast
  • A mountain summit overlooking an ocean
Correct answer(s):
  • The inland area served by the port's transport connections

How do air cargo facilities complement New Jersey seaports?

  • They move shipments with different speed and cargo needs
  • They eliminate the need for warehousing
  • They serve exactly the same shipments at identical costs
  • They replace every shipping container with a passenger car
Correct answer(s):
  • They move shipments with different speed and cargo needs

Which combination commonly influences a manufacturer’s choice of site?

  • Only the state’s bird symbol
  • Only tourist attractions
  • The number of state senators alone
  • Transport access, workforce, and markets
Correct answer(s):
  • Transport access, workforce, and markets

What tradeoff can arise when coastal tourism grows?

  • No new demand for water or roads
  • Automatic reduction of every environmental impact
  • More revenue but greater pressure on infrastructure and ecosystems
  • Complete elimination of beach erosion
Correct answer(s):
  • More revenue but greater pressure on infrastructure and ecosystems

Which two processes significantly reshaped New Jersey settlement over time?

  • Glaciation and new volcanoes in the 2000s
  • Industrialization and suburbanization
  • Continual desert expansion
  • Only the end of fishing
Correct answer(s):
  • Industrialization and suburbanization

Why was Paterson well positioned for early industrialization?

  • Waterpower plus access to Northeast markets and trade routes
  • Its isolation from all trade routes
  • Only tourism demand for beaches
  • An active coal volcano within city limits
Correct answer(s):
  • Waterpower plus access to Northeast markets and trade routes