The United States West of the Mississippi River

These rolling lands with a flat appearances are covered with many farms and ranches today?

• Rocky Mountains

• Great Plains

• Southwest Desert

• Great Basin

This large area of elevated, generally flat lands are called?

• Basins

• Mountains

• Valleys

• Plateaus

Laying in the Pacific Ocean about 2,400 miles southwest of California, these island landforms depict the last state added to the United States?

• Hawaii

• Texas

• Alaska

• Missouri

This is the largest salt lake in the Americas?

• Salt Lake City

• Lake Michigan

• Great Salt Lake

• Lake Salt

This major river in the western United States is dammed at places to provide hydroelectric power to the desert regions of the area?

• Colorado River

• Missouri River

• Columbia River

• Mississippi River

The term “contiguous” United States refers to?

• All 50 states in the union

• All 2 states that are not connected together

• All 48 states between the two oceans that are connected together

• All 48 states that have major resources

Hawaii has a subarctic climate and Alaska has a tropical rain-forest climate?

• True

• False

Wyoming has an abundant supply of which energy resource?

• Petroleum

• Coal

• Natural Gas

• Ethanol

This 1994 economic trade agreement was made among the United States, Canada and Mexico to make trading easier and less expensive?

• USMC

• NAFTA

• NATAF

• Trump Trade

This new type of fuel is made from corn and blended with gasoline?

• Coal

• Petroleum

• Natural Gas

• Ethanol