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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Uphill
B Downhill
C Uphill and then downhill
D Actually you would remain level
Question #2
A To open the area up for the mining of oil from deep shale reserves
B A huge grassland habitat for restored herds of bison
C For the development of wind farms
D A separate homeland for Native Americans
Question #3
A North Dakota
B Idaho
C Utah
D Wyoming
E Colorado
Question #4
A Corn
B Wheat
C Sunflowers
D Cotton
Question #5
A Oil
B Copper
C Gold
D Silver
Question #6
A A lack of snowfall in winter
B Thunderstorms and tornadoes
C El Niño
D Chinook winds
Question #7
A A major crop innovation was the so-called ‘hard’ winter wheat
B Initially, settlers in the region lived in sod houses
C All of the answer choices are correct
D Spring wheat is well-suited to the region’s severe winters
E Most agriculture tends to be localized, small-scale farms operated by single families
Question #8
A Dry, frigid winters with periods of high rainfall in the summer.
B Mild winters with dry, hot summers.
C Mild year round with dry summers and wet winters
D Dry with extreme temperature differences between the seasons
Question #9
A Arkansas River
B Canadian River
C Missouri River
D Red River
E Kern River
Question #10
A People in this area have more money to spend
B Building materials are more expensive
C To keep housing prices high
D To help prevent damage and loss of lives
E This area has less resources
Question #11
A One of the region’s worst droughts took place between 1945 and 1950
B Precipitation is influenced by cool dry air from the north
C Regional droughts tend to occur about every 20 years
D Most of the region’s precipitation occurs April through August
E Precipitation is influenced by Warm, moist air from Gulf of Mexico
Question #12
A An expansion area for Texas.
B The Nation of Oklahoma
C A Mormon nation
D As “Indian Territory” for thousands of Native Americans displaced from the southeastern United States
Question #13
A The automobile and the airplane.
B The railroad and the automobile.
C Automobiles and the steel plow.
D The steel plow and the railroad.
Question #14
A 8,000,000
B 80,000
C 800,000
D 80,000,000
Question #15
A The Jackson Accord.
B The Trail of Tears
C The Five Tribes Act
D The Homesteading Act
Question #16
A The Ogallala Sand Hills
B The Clovis Dunes
C The Nebraska Sand Hills
D The South Dakota Dunes
Question #17
A Kentucky
B Oklahoma
C Arizona
D Louisiana
E Nova Scotia
Question #18
A Buffalo hunting was the main economic base of the Plains Indians
B Initially, the mobility of the Great Plains Indians was limited by lack of transportation
C The first European settlers tended to settle next to sources of water
D The Great Plains were initially bypassed in favor of movement to the West Coast
E Horses were first introduced into the region by English trappers heading west
Question #19
A Wheat harvesting tends to be done by teams of crews operating large mechanical combines
B Most of the farms in Montana tend to larger than the farms in North Dakota
C The Great Lakes and the Mississippi River are the major transportation routes for Great Plains grain headed to market
D The Ogallala aquifer occupies about 100,000 square miles and was created in the Pleistocene era about 25,000 years ago
E It would appear that Montana and North Dakota had the most harvested acres of wheat in 2002
Question #20
A Shore birds
B Grasslands birds
C Waterfowl birds
D Bats
E Waterbirds
Question #21
A Solar power
B Biofuels
C Hydroelectric
D Wind
Question #22
A Agriculture
B There is little secondary sector activity in the Great Plains
C Mining
D Logging
Question #23
A Sundowner winds
B Supercell thunderstorms
C Blue Northers
D Dust storms
E El Nino
Question #24
A Texas
B Utah
C Nebraska
D Oklahoma
E South Dakota
Question #25
A People from the Great Plains
B People from nearby regions
C People from all over North America
D People from overseas
Question #26
A The High Plains extend from Texas up to Nebraska
B The Black Hills are part of the Rocky Mountains
C Badlands National Park is in South Dakota
D The Lake Agassiz Basin once contained the largest of the Cretaceous era lakes
E Elevation rises from east to west
Question #27
A In the southern portion of the region
B Near the border with Canada
C Near the edge of the region
D In the center of the region
Question #28
A Prospectors in the area brought diseases that largely wiped out the Native American presence in the area.
B The defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn forced the US government to negotiate.
C The massacre of more than 200 Dakota men, women, and children near Wounded Knee
D The US Homestead Act was passed to allow for settlement only on previously unclaimed lands.
Question #29
A Railroads linking the region to the West Coast contributed to the expansion of the ranching industry
B Overgrazing was a major contributing factor to the collapse of the ranching industry
C Ranching was introduced into Texas by Spanish
D The post-World War I period saw the greatest expansion of the region’s ranching industry
E Every state in the region has some form of cattle ranching
Question #30
A Meat packing
B Mining
C Agriculture
D Automobile manufacturing
Question #31
A The low rainfall.
B The use of dromedaries for travel.
C The miles and miles of sand and dunes.
D The lack of trees.
Question #32
A The Donation Land Claim Act
B The Homestead Act
C The Dawes Act
D The Morrill Act
Question #33
A Chinook winds most often occur during the summer
B Oklahoma and northern Texas seem to be the epicenter of tornado activity
C Tornadoes result from the collision of air masses
D Chinooks are best known for warm, dry air descending from Rocky Mountains
E Blizzards occur when cold polar air masses push south along the Rockies
Question #34
A 30 inches
B 2 inches
C 20 inches
D 3 inches
Question #35
A Winter
B Fall
C Summer
D Spring