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