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