What event effectively ended Native American resistance to Euro-American settlement in the Great Plains?

1. The defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn forced the US government to negotiate.
2. The massacre of more than 200 Dakota men, women, and children near Wounded Knee
3. Prospectors in the area brought diseases that largely wiped out the Native American presence in the area.
4. The US Homestead Act was passed to allow for settlement only on previously unclaimed lands.

Most major cities in the northern Great Plains are located where?

1. In the center of the region
2. In the southern portion of the region
3. Near the border with Canada
4. Near the edge of the region

According to the lecture, which of the following is NOT true regarding the Great Plains region?

1. The High Plains extend from Texas up to Nebraska
2. Badlands National Park is in South Dakota
3. The Black Hills are part of the Rocky Mountains
4. The Lake Agassiz Basin once contained the largest of the Cretaceous era lakes
5. Elevation rises from east to west

Most of the tourism and recreation sector in the Great Plains relies on visitors from where?

1. People from all over North America
2. People from the the Great Plains
3. People from overseas
4. People from nearby regions

According to the lecture, which state would appear to have the LOWEST average Certainty Rating

1. Oklahoma
2. South Dakota
3. Texas
4. Utah
5. Nebraska

http://www.tornadofacts.net/tornado-alley-facts.php (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

According to the webpage, what weather phenomenon commonly occurs in this region?

1. Supercell thunderstorms
2. Dust storms
3. Sundowner winds
4. El Nino
5. Blue Northers

Most secondary sector activity in the Great Plains is related to what primary sector activity?

1. Agriculture
2. There is little secondary sector activity in the Great Plains
3. Logging
4. Mining

The Department of Energy is investing $60 billion in rural parts of the United States, largely in the Great Plains, in order to develop what alternative source of energy?

1. Biofuels
2. Solar power
3. Wind
4. Hydroelectric

https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Wild-Places/Prairie-Potholes (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

According to the webpage, which of these is NOT a species that benefits from prairie potholes?

1. Bats
2. Waterfowl birds
3. Shore birds
4. Waterbirds
5. Grasslands birds

According to the lecture, which of the following is INCORRECT?

1. The Great Lakes and the Mississippi River are the major transportation routes for Great Plains grain headed to market
2. Wheat harvesting tends to be done by teams of crews operating large mechanical combines
3. It would appear that Montana and North Dakota had the most harvested acres of wheat in 2002
4. The Ogallala aquifer occupies about 100,000 square miles and was created in the Pleistocene era about 25,000 years ago
5. Most of the farms in Montana tend to larger than the farms in North Dakota

According to the lecture, which of the following is NOT true regarding the settlement of the Great Plains region?

1. Initially, the mobility of the Great Plains Indians was limited by lack of transportation
2. Horses were first introduced into the region by English trappers heading west
3. Buffalo hunting was the main economic base of the Plains Indians
4. The Great Plains were initially bypassed in favor of movement to the West Coast
5. The first European settlers tended to settle next to sources of water

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According to the video, where did the various routes lead the Cherokee people to?

1. Arizona
2. Oklahoma
3. Louisiana
4. Kentucky
5. Nova Scotia

The largest dune field in North America is located in the Great Plains and is called what?

1. The Clovis Dunes
2. The Nebraska Sand Hills
3. The South Dakota Dunes
4. The Ogallala Sand Hills

The forced migration of tens of thousands of people from the “Five Civilized Tribes” — Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole from their homelands in the southeastern United States to “Indian Territory” in what is now Oklahoma is called what?

1. The Five Tribes Act
2. The Jackson Accord.
3. The Homesteading Act
4. The Trail of Tears

About how many bison were living on the Great Plains before Euro-Americans began hunting them?

1. 800,000
2. 80,000
3. 80,000,000
4. 8,000,000

What two 19th Century technologies were key to encouraging settlement in the Great Plains?

1. The railroad and the automobile.
2. Automobiles and the steel plow.
3. The automobile and the airplane.
4. The steel plow and the railroad.

Before it became a U.S. state, eastern Oklahoma was set-aside for what?

1. The Nation of Oklahoma
2. A Mormon nation
3. An expansion area for Texas.
4. As “Indian Territory” for thousands of Native Americans displaced from the southeastern United States

According to the lecture, which of the following is NOT true regarding precipitation in the Great Plains region?

1. One of the region’s worst droughts took place between 1945 and 1950
2. Most of the region’s precipitation occurs April through August
3. Precipitation is influenced by cool dry air from the north
4. Regional droughts tend to occur about every 20 years
5. Precipitation is influenced by Warm, moist air from Gulf of Mexico

http://www.tornadofacts.net/tornado-alley-facts.php (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

According to the webpage, why are building codes more strict in this area?

1. To help prevent damage and loss of lives
2. Building materials are more expensive
3. People in this area have more money to spend
4. This area has less resources
5. To keep housing prices high

Which of these rivers does NOT cross the Great Plains region?

1. Arkansas River
2. Canadian River
3. Missouri River
4. Red River
5. Kern River

Which of the following best describes the climate in the Great Plains?

1. Dry with extreme temperature differences between the seasons
2. Mild winters with dry, hot summers.
3. Mild year round with dry summers and wet winters
4. Dry, frigid winters with periods of high rainfall in the summer.

According to the lecture, which of the following is INCORRECT regarding the region’s agriculture?

1. All of the answer choices are correct
2. Spring wheat is well-suited to the region’s severe winters
3. Initially, settlers in the region lived in sod houses
4. A major crop innovation was the so-called ‘hard’ winter wheat
5. Most agriculture tends to be localized, small-scale farms operated by single families

When warm air from the Gulf of Mexico meets cold, dry air from the Arctic in the Great Plains the result is what?

1. Thunderstorms and tornadoes
2. Chinook winds
3. A lack of snowfall in winter
4. El Niño

The discovery of what resource, in 1874, in the Black Hills of South Dakota caused the U.S. government to break their treaty with the Dakota Sioux?

1. Oil
2. Gold
3. Copper
4. Silver

The United States and Canada produce 99% of the world’s exports of what crop, most of which is produced in the Great Plains?

1. Wheat
2. Corn
3. Cotton
4. Sunflowers

According to the lecture, which state gets the LEAST amount of hail on average?

1. Idaho
2. Utah
3. Colorado
4. Wyoming
5. North Dakota

Geographers Frank and Deborah Popper have proposed that in the future, much of the Great Plains should be taken out of agricultural production and instead used for what?

1. To open the area up for the mining of oil from deep shale reserves
2. A separate homeland for Native Americans
3. A huge grassland habitat for restored herds of bison
4. For the development of wind farms