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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Uphill
B Actually you would remain level
C Uphill and then downhill
D Downhill
Question #2
A A huge grassland habitat for restored herds of bison
B For the development of wind farms
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 North Dakota
B Wyoming
C Idaho
D Colorado
E Utah
Question #4
A Wheat
B Sunflowers
C Cotton
D Corn
Question #5
A Copper
B Silver
C Oil
D Gold
Question #6
A Chinook winds
B Thunderstorms and tornadoes
C A lack of snowfall in winter
D El Niño
Question #7
A All of the answer choices are correct
B Spring wheat is well-suited to the region’s severe winters
C Most agriculture tends to be localized, small-scale farms operated by single families
D A major crop innovation was the so-called ‘hard’ winter wheat
E Initially, settlers in the region lived in sod houses
Question #8
A Mild winters with dry, hot summers.
B Dry with extreme temperature differences between the seasons
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 Kern River
C Arkansas River
D Red River
E Missouri River
Question #10
A Building materials are more expensive
B People in this area have more money to spend
C This area has less resources
D To help prevent damage and loss of lives
E To keep housing prices high
Question #11
A Precipitation is influenced by cool dry air from the north
B Precipitation is influenced by Warm, moist air from Gulf of Mexico
C Most of the region’s precipitation occurs April through August
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 As “Indian Territory” for thousands of Native Americans displaced from the southeastern United States
B A Mormon nation
C An expansion area for Texas.
D The Nation of Oklahoma
Question #13
A Automobiles and the steel plow.
B The railroad and the automobile.
C The automobile and the airplane.
D The steel plow and the railroad.
Question #14
A 80,000
B 8,000,000
C 800,000
D 80,000,000
Question #15
A The Homesteading Act
B The Jackson Accord.
C The Five Tribes Act
D The Trail of Tears
Question #16
A The Clovis Dunes
B The Nebraska Sand Hills
C The Ogallala Sand Hills
D The South Dakota Dunes
Question #17
A Nova Scotia
B Arizona
C Kentucky
D Louisiana
E Oklahoma
Question #18
A Initially, the mobility of the Great Plains Indians was limited by lack of transportation
B Buffalo hunting was the main economic base of the Plains Indians
C The first European settlers tended to settle next to sources of water
D The Great Plains were initially bypassed in favor of movement to the West Coast
E Horses were first introduced into the region by English trappers heading west
Question #19
A Wheat harvesting tends to be done by teams of crews operating large mechanical combines
B The Ogallala aquifer occupies about 100,000 square miles and was created in the Pleistocene era about 25,000 years ago
C Most of the farms in Montana tend to larger than the farms in North Dakota
D The Great Lakes and the Mississippi River are the major transportation routes for Great Plains grain headed to market
E It would appear that Montana and North Dakota had the most harvested acres of wheat in 2002
Question #20
A Waterfowl birds
B Grasslands birds
C Waterbirds
D Shore birds
E Bats
Question #21
A Wind
B Hydroelectric
C Solar power
D Biofuels
Question #22
A There is little secondary sector activity in the Great Plains
B Logging
C Agriculture
D Mining
Question #23
A Dust storms
B Blue Northers
C Sundowner winds
D Supercell thunderstorms
E El Nino
Question #24
A Oklahoma
B Texas
C South Dakota
D Utah
E Nebraska
Question #25
A People from overseas
B People from nearby regions
C People from the Great Plains
D People from all over North America
Question #26
A The High Plains extend from Texas up to Nebraska
B Elevation rises from east to west
C Badlands National Park is in South Dakota
D The Black Hills are part of the Rocky Mountains
E The Lake Agassiz Basin once contained the largest of the Cretaceous era lakes
Question #27
A Near the edge of the region
B In the southern portion of the region
C Near the border with Canada
D In the center 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 defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn forced the US government to negotiate.
C The massacre of more than 200 Dakota men, women, and children near Wounded Knee
D The US Homestead Act was passed to allow for settlement only on previously unclaimed lands.
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 Mining
C Meat packing
D Automobile manufacturing
Question #31
A The use of dromedaries for travel.
B The low rainfall.
C The lack of trees.
D The miles and miles of sand and dunes.
Question #32
A The Homestead Act
B The Donation Land Claim Act
C The Morrill Act
D The Dawes Act
Question #33
A Oklahoma and northern Texas seem to be the epicenter of tornado activity
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 Tornadoes result from the collision of air masses
Question #34
A 30 inches
B 3 inches
C 20 inches
D 2 inches
Question #35
A Summer
B Fall
C Winter
D Spring