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