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