Geography & The Great Plains

Which of the following is a feature of the Great Plains?

• Frequent rain storms
• Heavy snowfall
• Frequent dust storms
• Lack of grasslands

What area is the center of the automobile industry?

• Pittsburgh
• Chicago
• New England
• Detroit

Which area was the center of the meat packing industry?

• Chicago
• Detroit
• New England
• Pittsburgh

What area was the center of the textile industry post 1865?

• San Francisco
• New England
• New York
• Chicago

Which area is the center of steel production?

• Chicago
• New England
• San Francisco
• Pittsburgh

Which statement about the Great Plains is TRUE?

• The Great Plains
  lacked good
  farm land.
• The Great
  Plains were
  just desert
  areas.
• The Great
  Plains were a
  vast area to
  be settled
• The Great
  Plains were a
  treeless
  wasteland

Railroads, Windmills, Steel Plows and Barbed Wire can best be described as what?

• Native American Technology
• Items Used to Settle the Appalachian Mountains
• Life on the Great Plains
• Inventions and Adaptations Used to Settle the Great Plains

If you lived in Denver, which regions would you cross to reach St. Louis?

• Rocky Mountains (Western) and Midwest

• Pacific and Southwest

• Northeast and Southeast

• Midwest and Northeast

New York, Boston, and Philadelphia are part of which region?

• Midwest
• Northeast
• Rocky Mountains
• Southwest

Which of the following was NOT an adaptation used by settlers to change the Great Plains environment?

• Dry farming
• Sod houses
• Steel plow
• Plantations