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Question #1

If you were driving west along Interstate 70 from Topeka to Denver, for much of your trip the landscape around you would appear relatively flat, but overall you would be driving ________.,,

A Uphill and then downhill

B Actually you would remain level

C Downhill

D Uphill

Question #2

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?

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

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

A Idaho

B Wyoming

C North Dakota

D Colorado

E Utah

Question #4

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

A Cotton

B Sunflowers

C Wheat

D Corn

Question #5

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?

A Copper

B Gold

C Silver

D Oil

Question #6

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

A A lack of snowfall in winter

B Chinook winds

C Thunderstorms and tornadoes

D El Niño

Question #7

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

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

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

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

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

A Kern River

B Missouri River

C Canadian River

D Arkansas River

E Red River

Question #10

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 800,000

B 80,000,000

C 80,000

D 8,000,000

Question #15

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?

A The Jackson Accord.

B The Homesteading Act

C The Five Tribes Act

D The Trail of Tears

Question #16

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

A The Nebraska Sand Hills

B The Clovis Dunes

C The South Dakota Dunes

D The Ogallala Sand Hills

Question #17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosZ2ZRJymU (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. According to the video, where did the various routes lead the Cherokee people to?

A Arizona

B Oklahoma

C Louisiana

D Nova Scotia

E Kentucky

Question #18

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

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

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

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

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?

A Waterfowl birds

B Bats

C Grasslands birds

D Shore birds

E Waterbirds

Question #21

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?

A Solar power

B Hydroelectric

C Wind

D Biofuels

Question #22

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

A Logging

B Mining

C There is little secondary sector activity in the Great Plains

D Agriculture

Question #23

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?

A Supercell thunderstorms

B Blue Northers

C Dust storms

D Sundowner winds

E El Nino

Question #24

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

A Nebraska

B Oklahoma

C Utah

D Texas

E South Dakota

Question #25

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

A People from overseas

B People from the Great Plains

C People from all over North America

D People from nearby regions

Question #26

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

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

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

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

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

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

According to the lecture, which of the following is incorrect regarding the ranching industry of the Great Plains region?

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

Recent Latino and Asian immigrants have been attracted to the Great Plains because of jobs in what industry?

A Meat packing

B Mining

C Agriculture

D Automobile manufacturing

Question #31

Early settlers used the name the “Great American Desert” to refer to the Great Plains because of what characteristic of the region?

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

What law passed in 1862 encouraged settlement of the Great Plains by providing up to 160 acres of land to settlers who were able to make productive use of it?

A The Homestead Act

B The Morrill Act

C The Dawes Act

D The Donation Land Claim Act

Question #33

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

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

Looking at the diagram (11.4), about how many inches of precipitation does Bismarck, North Dakota get on average in May?

A 3 inches

B 20 inches

C 30 inches

D 2 inches

Question #35

Looking at the diagram (figure 11.4), on average when are the temperatures in Lubbock and Bismarck most similar?

A Summer

B Winter

C Fall

D Spring

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