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New Jersey Economy

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Why are ports, railroads, highways, and customers important to warehouse locations?

  • They prevent goods movement
  • They influence transport efficiency and access to markets
  • They have no influence on logistics
  • They determine rainfall
Correct answer(s):
  • They influence transport efficiency and access to markets

Which sector may increase seasonal jobs at New Jersey’s coast?

  • Tourism and hospitality
  • High-altitude forestry
  • Arctic shipping
  • Deep underground mining
Correct answer(s):
  • Tourism and hospitality

Why is agriculture still possible in a highly urbanized state like New Jersey?

  • Agriculture requires no land
  • Urban states cannot grow any crops
  • Every farm has become a skyscraper
  • Farms, nurseries, and productive growing areas remain
Correct answer(s):
  • Farms, nurseries, and productive growing areas remain

Which services employ substantial numbers of New Jersey workers?

  • Only deep-ocean mining
  • Only mountain guiding
  • Hospitals and other health care facilities
  • Only Antarctic research
Correct answer(s):
  • Hospitals and other health care facilities

How do ports and airports support New Jersey jobs?

  • By eliminating delivery services
  • Through transport, storage, logistics, and connected businesses
  • By ending all road travel
  • By removing the need for trade
Correct answer(s):
  • Through transport, storage, logistics, and connected businesses

How did New Jersey’s manufacturing sector change over time?

  • From early water-powered mills toward diverse modern industries
  • From computer factories to colonial plantations in the 1700s
  • From deserts to glaciers
  • From fishing to no industries at all
Correct answer(s):
  • From early water-powered mills toward diverse modern industries

What are the two broad types of economic activity found in New Jersey?

  • Only exports and imports
  • Only public and private schools
  • Only farms and forests
  • Goods-producing and service-providing activities
Correct answer(s):
  • Goods-producing and service-providing activities

Which work is an example of professional services?

  • Mining iron ore
  • Assembling physical machinery
  • Engineering consulting
  • Growing blueberries
Correct answer(s):
  • Engineering consulting