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