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