Missouri River - Quiz
A) 4,800 miles B) 3,500 miles C) 2,341 miles D) 1,000 miles
A) Columbia River B) Mississippi River C) Colorado River D) Ohio River
A) Underground Railroad B) American Civil War C) California Gold Rush D) Lewis and Clark Expedition
A) Cascade Range B) Sierra Nevada C) Great Plains D) Appalachian Mountains
A) Film production B) Automobile manufacturing C) Fur trade D) Pharmaceuticals
A) Oahe Dam B) Garrison Dam C) Table Rock Dam D) Fort Peck Dam
A) John F. Kennedy B) Franklin D. Roosevelt C) Richard Nixon D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
A) Navajo B) Sioux C) Iroquois D) Cherokee
A) Lake Oahe. B) Lake Sakakawea. C) Garrison Lake. D) Fort Peck Lake.
A) Denver, Colorado. B) Omaha, Nebraska. C) Kansas City, Missouri – Kansas City, Kansas. D) St. Louis, Missouri.
A) 60 percent. B) 25 percent. C) 70 percent. D) 45 percent.
A) The Continental Divide. B) Mount Lincoln at 14,293 feet (4,357 m). C) Mount Jefferson. D) Brower's Spring.
A) Great Falls, Montana. B) Williston, North Dakota. C) Bismarck, North Dakota. D) Omaha, Nebraska.
A) 50 B) Over 95 C) 120 D) 30
A) Over 17,000 B) 20,000 C) 10,000 D) 5,000
A) 55,400 cu ft/s (1,570 m3/s) B) 181,800 cu ft/s (5,150 m3/s) C) 21,920 cu ft/s (621 m3/s) D) 87,520 cu ft/s (2,478 m3/s)
A) 87,520 cu ft/s (2,478 m3/s) B) Over 750,000 cu ft/s (21,000 m3/s) on July 31, 1993 C) 602 cu ft/s (17.0 m3/s) D) 181,800 cu ft/s (5,150 m3/s) in 1993
A) 35% B) 50% C) 98.7% D) About 91%
A) 141 million acre-feet (174 km3) B) 50 million acre-feet C) 100 million acre-feet D) 200 million acre-feet
A) 91% B) 98.7% C) 50% D) 35%
A) Laramide Orogeny B) Quaternary Period C) Cretaceous Period D) Jurassic Period
A) Mississippi Seaway B) Atlantic Inland Sea C) Great Plains Sea D) Western Interior Seaway
A) Hudson Bay B) Pacific Ocean C) Atlantic Ocean D) Gulf of Mexico
A) Twenty species B) Five species C) Thirteen species D) No species are endemic
A) Building more locks and dams B) Expanding the navigation channel C) Closing alternative transportation routes D) Reducing agricultural production
A) The mid-20th century B) The late 21st century C) The early 1900s D) The 1800s
A) Barge designs B) Navigation channel C) Locks and dams D) River banks
A) 1682 B) 1701 C) 1607 D) 1754
A) 1858 B) 1890s C) 1900s D) 1819
A) Lack of sunlight B) Excessive rainfall C) Soil erosion during floods D) High salinity levels
A) White River Formation B) Broadwater Formation C) Ogallala Group D) Arikaree Group
A) Kra Isthmus B) Isthmus of Panama C) Land Bridge of Gibraltar D) Bering land bridge
A) 1803 B) 1812 C) 1783 D) 1795
A) Earthquakes B) Floods C) Tornadoes D) Drought conditions
A) Biodiversity generally increases proceeding downstream. B) Biodiversity decreases proceeding downstream. C) Biodiversity remains constant throughout the river. D) Biodiversity is highest at the cold, subalpine headwaters.
A) Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne B) Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont C) Jacques Marquette D) Louis Jolliet
A) 2006 B) 1925 C) 1912 D) 1945
A) 1925 B) 1912 C) 1945 D) 2006
A) Mackinaws B) Keelboats C) Side-wheeler steamboats D) Sternwheelers
A) The Independence B) The Yellowstone C) The Missouri Breaks D) The Western Engineer
A) Miocene-age B) Pliocene-age C) Jurassic-age D) Cretaceous-age
A) Eastern Montana B) Nebraska C) Western Montana D) South Dakota
A) To serve as a trading post for bartering with Native Americans for furs. B) To act as a military stronghold against Native American tribes. C) To house fur trappers from various companies. D) To serve as a permanent settlement for European settlers.
A) Less than a quarter B) About one third C) Nearly all D) More than half
A) Transporting settlers to new lands. B) The transport of thousands of beaver pelts. C) Moving military supplies. D) Carrying agricultural products from farms.
A) 5 B) 12 C) 29 D) 50
A) Pinckney's Treaty B) Treaty of Paris C) Jay Treaty D) Treaty of Ghent
A) Upper Missouri B) Middle Missouri C) Central Prairie D) All have equal diversity
A) Competition from railroads B) Increased shipping costs C) Lack of demand for agricultural products D) Overfishing in the river
A) Around 1819 B) 1830 C) 1890s D) 1858
A) Mink B) Pallid sturgeon C) River otter D) Beaver
A) Temperate and moist B) Semiarid shrub-steppe C) Characterized by large seasonal temperature fluctuations D) Cold, subalpine
A) Holocene Glaciation B) Pleistocene Glaciation C) Pre-Illinoian or Illinoian Glaciation D) Wisconsin Glaciation
A) Muddy Stream B) Big Muddy C) Silty Flow D) Sandy Waters
A) Mandan B) Navajo C) Dakota D) Otoe
A) Bleeding Kansas. B) The Battle of Boonville. C) Red Cloud's War. D) The Great Sioux War of 1876–77.
A) Levees B) Locks C) Hydroelectric dams D) Wing dams
A) 2010 B) 2000 C) 1977 D) 2006
A) 1858 B) 1890s C) 1819 D) 1830 |
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