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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Uphill and then downhill
B Uphill
C Downhill
D Actually you would remain level
Question #2
A To open the area up for the mining of oil from deep shale reserves
B A huge grassland habitat for restored herds of bison
C A separate homeland for Native Americans
D For the development of wind farms
Question #3
A Utah
B Wyoming
C North Dakota
D Colorado
E Idaho
Question #4
A Cotton
B Sunflowers
C Wheat
D Corn
Question #5
A Copper
B Oil
C Gold
D Silver
Question #6
A A lack of snowfall in winter
B El Niño
C Chinook winds
D Thunderstorms and tornadoes
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 All of the answer choices are correct
D Spring wheat is well-suited to the region’s severe winters
E A major crop innovation was the so-called ‘hard’ winter wheat
Question #8
A Mild winters with dry, hot summers.
B Mild year round with dry summers and wet winters
C Dry with extreme temperature differences between the seasons
D Dry, frigid winters with periods of high rainfall in the summer.
Question #9
A Red River
B Kern River
C Missouri River
D Arkansas River
E Canadian River
Question #10
A This area has less resources
B People in this area have more money to spend
C Building materials are more expensive
D To help prevent damage and loss of lives
E To keep housing prices high
Question #11
A Regional droughts tend to occur about every 20 years
B Precipitation is influenced by Warm, moist air from Gulf of Mexico
C Most of the region’s precipitation occurs April through August
D Precipitation is influenced by cool dry air from the north
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 An expansion area for Texas.
C The Nation of Oklahoma
D A Mormon nation
Question #13
A Automobiles and the steel plow.
B The steel plow and the railroad.
C The automobile and the airplane.
D The railroad and the automobile.
Question #14
A 80,000,000
B 80,000
C 800,000
D 8,000,000
Question #15
A The Five Tribes Act
B The Trail of Tears
C The Homesteading Act
D The Jackson Accord.
Question #16
A The Ogallala Sand Hills
B The South Dakota Dunes
C The Nebraska Sand Hills
D The Clovis Dunes
Question #17
A Oklahoma
B Nova Scotia
C Arizona
D Louisiana
E Kentucky
Question #18
A Initially, the mobility of the Great Plains Indians was limited by lack of transportation
B Horses were first introduced into the region by English trappers heading west
C Buffalo hunting was the main economic base of the Plains Indians
D The first European settlers tended to settle next to sources of water
E The Great Plains were initially bypassed in favor of movement to the West Coast
Question #19
A The Great Lakes and the Mississippi River are the major transportation routes for Great Plains grain headed to market
B Most of the farms in Montana tend to larger than the farms in North Dakota
C The Ogallala aquifer occupies about 100,000 square miles and was created in the Pleistocene era about 25,000 years ago
D Wheat harvesting tends to be done by teams of crews operating large mechanical combines
E It would appear that Montana and North Dakota had the most harvested acres of wheat in 2002
Question #20
A Waterfowl birds
B Shore birds
C Waterbirds
D Bats
E Grasslands birds
Question #21
A Wind
B Hydroelectric
C Solar power
D Biofuels
Question #22
A Agriculture
B Logging
C There is little secondary sector activity in the Great Plains
D Mining
Question #23
A Blue Northers
B Dust storms
C Supercell thunderstorms
D Sundowner winds
E El Nino
Question #24
A Oklahoma
B South Dakota
C Nebraska
D Texas
E Utah
Question #25
A People from overseas
B People from all over North America
C People from the Great Plains
D People from nearby regions
Question #26
A The Lake Agassiz Basin once contained the largest of the Cretaceous era lakes
B The Black Hills are part of the Rocky Mountains
C The High Plains extend from Texas up to Nebraska
D Badlands National Park is in South Dakota
E Elevation rises from east to west
Question #27
A Near the border with Canada
B In the center of the region
C In the southern portion of the region
D Near the edge of the region
Question #28
A The US Homestead Act was passed to allow for settlement only on previously unclaimed lands.
B The defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn forced the US government to negotiate.
C Prospectors in the area brought diseases that largely wiped out the Native American presence in the area.
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 The post-World War I period saw the greatest expansion of the region’s ranching industry
E Every state in the region has some form of cattle ranching
Question #30
A Agriculture
B Mining
C Automobile manufacturing
D Meat packing
Question #31
A The miles and miles of sand and dunes.
B The use of dromedaries for travel.
C The low rainfall.
D The lack of trees.
Question #32
A The Morrill Act
B The Donation Land Claim Act
C The Dawes Act
D The Homestead Act
Question #33
A Chinooks are best known for warm, dry air descending from Rocky Mountains
B Tornadoes result from the collision of air masses
C Oklahoma and northern Texas seem to be the epicenter of tornado activity
D Chinook winds most often occur during the summer
E Blizzards occur when cold polar air masses push south along the Rockies
Question #34
A 30 inches
B 3 inches
C 20 inches
D 2 inches
Question #35
A Spring
B Winter
C Summer
D Fall