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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 Downhill
C Uphill and then downhill
D Uphill
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 Idaho
B North Dakota
C Wyoming
D Colorado
E Utah
Question #4
A Cotton
B Sunflowers
C Wheat
D Corn
Question #5
A Silver
B Copper
C Gold
D Oil
Question #6
A El Niño
B A lack of snowfall in winter
C Thunderstorms and tornadoes
D Chinook winds
Question #7
A Most agriculture tends to be localized, small-scale farms operated by single families
B Initially, settlers in the region lived in sod houses
C A major crop innovation was the so-called ‘hard’ winter wheat
D Spring wheat is well-suited to the region’s severe winters
E All of the answer choices are correct
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 Mild winters with dry, hot summers.
D Dry with extreme temperature differences between the seasons
Question #9
A Canadian River
B Arkansas River
C Missouri River
D Red River
E Kern River
Question #10
A To keep housing prices high
B This area has less resources
C To help prevent damage and loss of lives
D Building materials are more expensive
E People in this area have more money to spend
Question #11
A Regional droughts tend to occur about every 20 years
B One of the region’s worst droughts took place between 1945 and 1950
C Most of the region’s precipitation occurs April through August
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 As “Indian Territory” for thousands of Native Americans displaced from the southeastern United States
B The Nation of Oklahoma
C A Mormon nation
D An expansion area for Texas.
Question #13
A The railroad and the automobile.
B Automobiles and the steel plow.
C The automobile and the airplane.
D The steel plow and the railroad.
Question #14
A 80,000,000
B 800,000
C 8,000,000
D 80,000
Question #15
A The Five Tribes Act
B The Jackson Accord.
C The Homesteading Act
D The Trail of Tears
Question #16
A The South Dakota Dunes
B The Nebraska Sand Hills
C The Ogallala Sand Hills
D The Clovis Dunes
Question #17
A Louisiana
B Oklahoma
C Kentucky
D Arizona
E Nova Scotia
Question #18
A Initially, the mobility of the Great Plains Indians was limited by lack of transportation
B The Great Plains were initially bypassed in favor of movement to the West Coast
C Horses were first introduced into the region by English trappers heading west
D Buffalo hunting was the main economic base of the Plains Indians
E The first European settlers tended to settle next to sources of water
Question #19
A It would appear that Montana and North Dakota had the most harvested acres of wheat in 2002
B The Great Lakes and the Mississippi River are the major transportation routes for Great Plains grain headed to market
C Most of the farms in Montana tend to larger than the farms in North Dakota
D Wheat harvesting tends to be done by teams of crews operating large mechanical combines
E The Ogallala aquifer occupies about 100,000 square miles and was created in the Pleistocene era about 25,000 years ago
Question #20
A Bats
B Grasslands birds
C Waterfowl birds
D Waterbirds
E Shore birds
Question #21
A Hydroelectric
B Solar power
C Biofuels
D Wind
Question #22
A Mining
B Logging
C There is little secondary sector activity in the Great Plains
D Agriculture
Question #23
A Supercell thunderstorms
B El Nino
C Blue Northers
D Dust storms
E Sundowner winds
Question #24
A South Dakota
B Utah
C Oklahoma
D Texas
E Nebraska
Question #25
A People from nearby regions
B People from the Great Plains
C People from overseas
D People from all over North America
Question #26
A The High Plains extend from Texas up to Nebraska
B The Black Hills are part of the Rocky Mountains
C Badlands National Park is in South Dakota
D The Lake Agassiz Basin once contained the largest of the Cretaceous era lakes
E Elevation rises from east to west
Question #27
A In the center of the region
B Near the edge of the region
C Near the border with Canada
D In the southern portion 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 US Homestead Act was passed to allow for settlement only on previously unclaimed lands.
C The defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn forced the US government to negotiate.
D The massacre of more than 200 Dakota men, women, and children near Wounded Knee
Question #29
A Overgrazing was a major contributing factor to the collapse of the ranching industry
B Railroads linking the region to the West Coast contributed to the expansion of the ranching industry
C Ranching was introduced into Texas by Spanish
D Every state in the region has some form of cattle ranching
E The post-World War I period saw the greatest expansion of the region’s ranching industry
Question #30
A Meat packing
B Agriculture
C Mining
D Automobile manufacturing
Question #31
A The low rainfall.
B The miles and miles of sand and dunes.
C The lack of trees.
D The use of dromedaries for travel.
Question #32
A The Homestead Act
B The Donation Land Claim Act
C The Dawes Act
D The Morrill Act
Question #33
A Oklahoma and northern Texas seem to be the epicenter of tornado activity
B Tornadoes result from the collision of air masses
C Chinooks are best known for warm, dry air descending from Rocky Mountains
D Blizzards occur when cold polar air masses push south along the Rockies
E Chinook winds most often occur during the summer
Question #34
A 20 inches
B 3 inches
C 2 inches
D 30 inches
Question #35
A Fall
B Winter
C Spring
D Summer