Arkansas History Chapter 1

Scientists call the breaking apart of the supercontinent Pangaea _____.

• natural selection

• plate tectonics

• continential drift

• Paleozoic divide

The seismic zone that runs 150 miles through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas is called ________.

• the Wasatch Fault

• the New Madrid Fault

• the San Andreas Fault

• the Denali Fault

Arkansas's boutdaries cover about how many square miles?

• 53,182

• 48,590

• 52,228

• 58,605

Every place in Arkansas has _________.

• forests

• wildlife

• prime meridian

• an exact location

The name Arkansas is a Quapaw Indian word that means ______.

• "Holy Ones."

• "Downstream People."

• "Keepers of the Land."

• "People of the Earth and Sky."

Archaeologists believe that Bayou Bartholomew was once a channel of which river?

• the Arkansas River

• the Mississippi River

• the Buffalo River

• the Ouachita River

Which Arkansas land region runs along our eastern border?

• Crawley's Ridge

• the Arkansas River Valley

• the Mississippi Alluvial Plain

• the Ouachita Mountains

Which Arkansas town or city is NOT part of the Ozark Mountain region?

• Eureka Springs

• Bentonville

• Fayetteville

• Fort Smith

Climate is described as _________.

• the state of what's happening in the atmosphere at any given moment.

• the long-term weather pattern of a place.

• nearness to the equator or large bodies of water.

• the ability to predict what the weather will do next.

What do scientists use to measure the strength of a tornado?

• the Richter scale

• a Geiger counter

• the Fujita scale

• a wind sock