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Question 1 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following exposes water-

saturated strata underlying the Edwards Plateau and thus gives rise to a
series of natural springs at its margin?

The Balcones Fault Zone

The Alpine Fault Zone

The San Andreas Fault Zone

The Cascadia Fault Zone

Question 2 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand (Ch. 14), which of the following contained ten

thousand people who made the land run and was projected to be the new
capital of an envisioned Oklahoma Territory in April 1889?

Capitol Park

Sooners

Guthrie

Foucart

Question 3 1 / 1 pts

For this question, go here:

The Great Plains

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According to the video, in the 1920s and 1930s, farmers plowed their
fields too deep and grew the same thing every year. This caused which of
the following?

Fertile Soil

Soil Depletion

Excess Crops

Grasslands

Question 4 1 / 1 pts

How the Brutal Trail of Tears Got Its Name

According to the video, where did the various routes lead the Cherokee
people to?

Nova Scotia

Arizona

Kentucky

Oklahoma

Louisiana

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Question 5 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

Precipitation declines westward across the central Great Plains at roughly

one inch every thirty miles

The variation around a given average of precipitation is larger in the Plains

than anywhere else in the United States

The Great Plains are far more wooded today than it was a century ago

The limestone ledge known as Post Rock was named because the early
settlers cut pillars from it for fence posts since few trees were available

Drainage patterns formed as parallel, west-flowing rivers which eventually

flow into the Missouri or Mississippi Rivers

Question 6 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), within a span of fifty years, Texas

experienced all EXCEPT for which of the following?

Texas had been a state, first of the Confederacy, then of the United States

Texas had been ruled by Spain

Texas had constituted itself as an independent republic

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Texas had been a state, first of the United States, then of the Confederacy

Texas had been ruled by Mexico

Question 7 1 / 1 pts

For this question, go here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrie,_Oklahoma
According to the webpage, Guthrie was first established in 1887 as which
of the following?

Railroad Station

Post Office

Farmlands

Unknown Territory

Question 8 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following was NOT listed
as one of four larger Mexican counterpart cities to the principal US border
cities?

El Paso

Nuevo Laredo

Piedras Negras

Matamoros

Villa Acuña

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Question 9 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

More than nine thousand Germans immigrated to the Texas Hill Country in
the 1840s

Coals in this region, like elsewhere in the Western Interior Coal field, are
low in sulfur content

German Americans in the Hill Country hire Mexican shepherds to tend

their flocks

The Edwards and Stockton Plateaus are the major sheep and goat
production area in the United States

The Gulf Coast port of Indianola was leveled by a hurricane

Question 10 1 / 1 pts

For this question, go here:

The Ogallala Aquifer

According to the video, the National Science Foundation is analyzing data

as far back as the 1800's. Which of the following changes are they NOT
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analyzing?

Federal and Government Policies

Water Policy

Climate

Irrigation Technology

Question 11 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

The Chinook winds soften the harsh winters slightly for the Peace River
District

The Peace River District is the closest Canadian wheat and canola
production region to the Asian market

The Peace River District was settled slightly before southern Alberta

Wheat failure is too common in the Peace River District for it to be an ideal
crop

Both the Alaskan Highway and the Mackenzie Highway originate in the
Peace River District

Question 12 1 / 1 pts

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According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following statements is

TRUE?

Saskatchewan’s CCF established universal health care in the province in

the early 1960s

Unlike the rest of the Prairies, Alberta had a multi-crop economy

Canola can be grown in areas that have a growing season too long for
wheat

Substantial areas of Alberta remained unsettled as late as 1920

Prairie agriculture has long had to deal with problems created by the
international border which bisects it

Question 13 1 / 1 pts

According to the lecture, which of the following is incorrect regarding the

ranching industry of the Central Plains region?

Overgrazing was a major contributing factor to the collapse of the ranching

industry

Railroads linking the region to the West Coast contributed to the expansion
of the ranching industry

The post-World War I period saw the greatest expansion of the region's
ranching industry

Ranching was introduced into Texas by Spanish

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Every state in the region has some form of cattle ranching

Question 14 1 / 1 pts

http://youtu.be/MoyHIytVhn8

Keystone Pipeline video

The activists in the video are concerned about potential adverse effects of
the pipeline on which major industry?

Agriculture (ranching and farming)

Transportation (via trucks, trains, and ships)

U.S. oil production

Coal Mining

Tourism

Question 15 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

San Fernando de Bexar was the most successful of the presidios and
missions

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The counties south and east of San Antonio are some of the most heavily
Hispanic in the United States

Texas is one of three states where the first significant settlements by

Europeans came from Spain

Spain made plans for a series of widely spaced settlements that would
form a frontier barrier against French encroachment

Nacogdoches was the most remote outpost the Spanish built in Texas

Question 16 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following statements is

TRUE?

Texas has one of the steepest rainfall gradients in the United States

Texas is the only state that started as an independent republic

Texas is the most sparsely settled state

Texas is the largest state

Texas is predominantly in the Great Plains region with only a small fringe
of the Coastal Plains to the south

Question 17 1 / 1 pts

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According to Nostrand, Map 14.4, which agricultural belt is centered on

western Kansas where wheat is planted in the fall, is in the ground over
winter, and is harvested in the spring?

Winter Wheat Belt

Spring Wheat Belt

Corn Belt

Cotton Belt

Question 18 1 / 1 pts

Refer to this page to answer the following question.

According to the webpage, what is NOT an important function of the
prairie potholes?

Provide water and forage for livestock

They recharge groundwater systems

Birders and hunters use them to find birds

All of these answer choices are correct

Serve as sponges to hold excess water and reduce the risk of severe
flooding

Question 19 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson, the Great Plains slope upward towards which

direction?
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East

North

West

South

Southeast

Question 20 1 / 1 pts

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

Horses were first introduced into the region by English trappers heading
west

The Great Plains were initially bypassed in favor of movement to the West
Coast

Initially, the mobility of the Great Plains Indians was limited by lack of
transportation

Buffalo hunting was the main economic base of the Plains Indians

The first European settlers tended to settle next to sources of water

Question 21 1 / 1 pts

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According to Hudson, San Fernando de Bexar eventually became which

city?

El Paso

San Antonio

Houston

Austin

Dallas

Question 22 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand (Chapter 12), the Texas Hill Country lies north and
west of the Balcones Escarpment. With that said, all of the following trees
cover these hills, EXCEPT?

Live Oak

Sycamore

Cypress

Post Oak

Question 23 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand (Ch. 14), which of the following did Congress pass
that allowed the people of the Twin Territories to join in writing a
constitution on June 16, 1906?

Oklahoma Enabling Act

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Dawes Act

Curtis Act

Organic Act

Question 24 1 / 1 pts

Click on the link below to watch a video about opposition to the Keystone
XL pipeline.
http://youtu.be/MoyHIytVhn8

What is the intended purpose of the Keystone XL pipeline?

Transport fresh water from the Ogallala aquifer to drought-stricken Texas

and Alberta, Canada.

Transport water from desalination plants on the Texas Gulf Coast and
melting snow in Canada to replenish the Ogallala Aquifer.

Transport oil drilled offshore in the Gulf of Mexico to refineries in Canada.

Transport oil produced in the tar sand region of Alberta, Canada to the
Texas Gulf Coast.

Extend the reach of the Trans-Alaska pipeline into the lower 48.

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Question 25 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand (Chapter 12), geography Terry Jordan's analysis of

the Texas population in 1850 is revealing: of 212,000 total Texans,
approximately 53% (114,040) were which of the following?

Republicans

German

Slaves

Southern Anglos

Question 26 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

Manitoba’s population in 1870 was 4/6ths métis

The white-trunked aspen poplar is characteristic of the Parkland region

Louis Riel spent time in a mental institution

Louis Riel lived in exile in Montana until 1885 following the Red River
Rebellion

Anglo-Canadians resurveyed the land of the Red River Valley and

disregarded the métis titles to the long lots

Question 27 1 / 1 pts

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According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following business

sectors in Dallas was NOT listed as experiencing substantial employment
increases in the 1990s growth boom?

Financial

Energy

Transportation

Aviation

Telecommunications

Question 28 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), a precursor to the dissolution of the

Indian nations, members of the Five Tribes were recognized as U.S.
citizens by which of the following years?

1921

1881

1891

1901

Question 29 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following statements is

TRUE?

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Between 1915 and 1921, South Dakota politics was dominated by the
Non-Partisan League

Similar to the southern Great Plains, flour mills in the northern Great Plains
were important industries in many small cities

North Dakotans generally voted Democrat, like most Northerners, for at

least three generations following the Civil War

The state of North Dakota purchases some wheat directly from farmers,
mills it, and sells it under the state’s own brand label

The spring wheat crop is planted in the fall and harvested in the spring

Question 30 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), all of the following fields grow along
the rolling uplands bordering the deep valley of the Peace, which is one of
the larger tributaries of the Mackenzie River, EXCEPT?

Canola

Cotton

Wheat

Barley

Question 31 1 / 1 pts

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http://youtu.be/MoyHIytVhn8
According to the video, how many accidents/spills did the existing
Keystone I pipeline have in its first year of operation?

100

12

Question 32 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

Federal judges have ruled against the continuation of the Keystone XL

pipeline, and a pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver

Oil sands are extracted similarly to coal strip mining

Oil sands are cheaper to process than crude oil

Fracking techniques in the United States lessened the strategic terms

American oil companies saw with the oil sands

Canada is the United States’ largest foreign oil supplier

Question 33 1 / 1 pts
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According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

Nearly the entire state of Texas was submerged during the Triassic period

The only area without oil or gas resources is a southwest diagonal band
starting in the Ouachita Mountains

The search for oil and gas has moved from dry land into the Gulf of Mexico

The locations of some crude oil springs were known well in prehistoric
times

The largest oil and gas deposits accumulate under salt domes

Question 34 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand (Chapter 12), which of the following is a break in

slope which can mean a gentle decline or a high bluff?

An Anglo

Costal Plains

An Balcones

An Escarpment

Question 35 1 / 1 pts

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According to Hudson (Chapter 15), large tracts of Red River Valley land
were purchased by Eastern investors and operated as which of the
following in the 1870s as an experiment in plantation-scale agriculture
applied to wheat?

Bonanza Farms

Barley Farms

Bailey Farms

Boomerrang Farms

Question 36 1 / 1 pts

According to the lecture, which state is NOT a part of the Central Plains
region?

Iowa

Kansas

Nebraska

Oklahoma

South Dakota

Question 37 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), which of the following statements is

CORRECT?

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The Blackland Prairie was not a significant cotton-producing region after

the Civil War

By the 1880s, the Blackland Prairie had the largest cotton acreage of any
region in the United States

The main soil classification of the Coastal Plains prairies is Vertisols

African Americans accompanied cotton culture into the Blackland Prairie

The soils of the prairies have relatively high permeability to surface

infiltration

Question 38 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following is

INCORRECT?

Prairies, in Canadian parlance, are the northern equivalent of Great Plains

in American terms of reference.

Prairie is a French word indicating grassy vegetation.

Plains refers only to topography.

The Canadian Prairie surface sloped downward to the west in a series of

short terraces.

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Question 39 1 / 1 pts

http://www.tornadofacts.net/tornado-alley-facts.php
According to the webpage, why are building codes more strict in this
area?

Building materials are more expensive

People in this area have more money to spend

To keep housing prices high

This area has less resources

To help prevent damage and loss of lives

Question 40 1 / 1 pts

For this question, go here:

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According to the webpage, the relocated Native Americans did NOT suffer
from which of the following, while en route to their new designated
reserve?

Starvation

Exposure

Comfy Bed

Disease

Question 41 1 / 1 pts

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

Chinook winds most often occur during the summer

Blizzards occur when cold polar air masses push south along the Rockies

Chinooks are best known for warm, dry air descending from Rocky
Mountains

Tornadoes result from the collision of air masses

Oklahoma and northern Texas seem to be the epicenter of tornado activity

Question 42 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand (Ch.14), which of the following is considered to be

the "Williamsburg of the West"?

Guthrie

Twin Territories

Langston

Capitol Park

Question 43 1 / 1 pts

Refer to this page to answer the following question.

According to the webpage, which of these is NOT a species that benefits
from prairie potholes?

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Waterfowl birds

Shore birds

Bats

Waterbirds

Grasslands birds

Question 44 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand, Map 14.5, East of Omaha, rail networks already in

place linked Omaha with Chicago for a third segment. Which of the
following was an even denser network that linked for a final segment?

Sacramento with Ogden

Chicago with Sacramento

Omaha with Atlantic ports

Omaha with New York

Chicago with Atlantic ports

Question 45 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), nearly all of the prairies are devolved
on which type of soil?

Alfisols

Mollisols

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Vertisols

Histosols

Ultisols

Question 46 1 / 1 pts

How the Brutal Trail of Tears Got Its Name

According to the video, who was responsible for signing the Indian
Removal Act?

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Jackson

Question 47 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), which of the following statements is

NOT true?

Wheat yields less income per acre than corn

The Mennonites migrated from Germany to Kansas during the 1870s

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The hard-kerneled wheat the Mennonites brought with them was far
superior to the soft-kerneled wheat then in common use

The domestic demand of the wheat crop of the United States is less than
half of the total produced each year

Hard winter wheat is primarily used for manufacturing bread flour

Question 48 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 15), gargantuan grain-storage elevators

were a hallmark of the winter wheat belt, dominating the skylines of all of
the following cities, EXCEPT?

Amarillo

Texas

Oklahoma

Ohio

Question 49 1 / 1 pts

According to Hudson (Chapter 16), the first major oil discovery was
located where?

Spindletop

Wichita Falls

Midland

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Houston

Odessa

Question 50 1 / 1 pts

According to Nostrand (Chapter 12), drawing on firsthand accounts of

settlers and travelers, geographer Terry Jordan asked how these
southerners evaluated the mixed forest-grassland cover in selecting land
on which to settle. Which of the following did they choose?

Grassland

Mixed Forest

Praiaries

Woodlands

Quiz Score: 50 out of 50

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