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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is a feature of the Great Plains?Frequent rain stormsHeavy snowfallFrequent dust stormsLack of grasslands
- 2. Multiple Choice
What area is the center of the automobile industry?PittsburghChicagoNew EnglandDetroit - 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich area was the center of the meat packing industry?ChicagoDetroitNew EnglandPittsburgh
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat area was the center of the textile industry post 1865?San FranciscoNew EnglandNew YorkChicago
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhich area is the center of steel production?ChicagoNew EnglandSan FranciscoPittsburgh
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement about the Great Plains is TRUE?The Great Plains
lacked good
farm land.The Great
Plains were
just desert
areas.The Great
Plains were a
vast area to
be settledThe Great
Plains were a
treeless
wasteland - 7. Multiple ChoiceRailroads, Windmills, Steel Plows and Barbed Wire can best be described as what?Native American TechnologyItems Used to Settle the Appalachian MountainsLife on the Great PlainsInventions and Adaptations Used to Settle the Great Plains
- 8. Multiple Choice
If you lived in Denver, which regions would you cross to reach St. Louis?
Rocky Mountains (Western) and Midwest
Pacific and Southwest
Northeast and Southeast
Midwest and Northeast
- 9. Multiple ChoiceNew York, Boston, and Philadelphia are part of which region?MidwestNortheastRocky MountainsSouthwest
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was NOT an adaptation used by settlers to change the Great Plains environment?Dry farmingSod housesSteel plowPlantations
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat inventions helped farmers fence their fields?RailroadsSteel plowsWindmillsBarbed wire
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat development changed people’s perception of the Great Plains?Availability of land in the eastern areasNew TechnologiesRemoval of Native AmericansTransportation barriers
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich area was the primary destination for iron ore deposits to sites of steel mills?ChicagoDetroitPittsburghNew England
- 14. Multiple ChoiceSouthwest Region: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, __________ what state is missing?ColoradoOklahomaOregonMontana
- 15. Multiple ChoiceAfter 1865 manufacturing areas were clustered around what?the Great Plainsfarms in the Southcenters of populationformer Civil War battlefields
- 16. Multiple ChoiceAlaska and Hawaii belong to which geographic region?Rocky Mountains (Western)MidwestNortheastnoncontiguous
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhat grade are you going to get on this test?ABFD
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