Railroad and highway systems and Agriculture in the United States

Railroad and highway systems and Agriculture in the United States

Type of Service: Academic Writing

Work Type: Essay (any type)

Format: MLA

Pages: 2 pages – 550 words, Double spaced

Academic level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)

Discipline: Geography

Number of sources:  2

Paper instructions:

Worth 20% of final grade. Pick TWO questions, discuss and answer fully. Let me know if you can’t see the picture. Below is an overview of picture

1. Over the past 150 years, railroad and highway systems influenced patterns of urban growth in the United States. A. Identify and explain one way that railroads affected the size and one way that railroads affected the form of cities in the United States between 1870 and 1920. B. Identify and explain two ways that the Interstate Highway System affected cities in the United States between 1950 and today

2. The development of suburbs in North American metropolitan areas has greatly accelerated since the

1950’sand 1960’s. Discuss how THREE of the following have contributed to this acceleration. (a)

Transportation(b) Housing production(c) Landscape preferences(d) Social and demographic trends.

3. Agriculture in the United States has changed significantly in the past few decades. With respect to the past, present, and projected trends in agriculture detailing the decline of dairy farms and rise of organic farms: A. First identify and then explain TWO factors contributing to the steady decline in the number of dairy farms since 1970. B. First identify and then explain TWO factors contributing to the increase in the number of organic farms since 1970.

4. Explain the popularity, purpose, uses and shortcomings of the Mercator map projection.