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