Michigan Intro Quiz

What 3 minerals built up over time from a smaller sea in the Lower Peninsula?

• Lime

• Copper

• Salt

• Gypsum

• Sandstone

How many counties does Michigan have?

• 80

• 83

• 90

• 45

How did the iron ore that we mine today get there?

• Michigan was once covered by salt water sea containing iron that settled at the bottom

• Volcanoes that were once covering Michigan

• Iron left behind from glaciers as they were melting away

• There has always been iron in Michigan

Who is NOT a MI artist

• Eminem

• Dr. Dre

• Kid Rock

• Bob Seger

What were the "footprints" that glaciers left behind once they melted?

• Rock and gravel that often created hills

• Thousands of Lakes

• Deep craters

• Colder weather that still affects Michigan today

This legendary coach has made the NCAA tourney 25 years consecutively in men's basketball

• Mike Krzyzewski

• Greg Kampe

• Bobby Knight

• Tom Izzo

The Detroit Riots took place in.....

• 1968

• 1967

• 1950

• 1992

This picture best represents what that help lead Michigan to statehood by dramatically increasing it's population.

• Kalamazoo Clinton Canal

• Erie Canal

• Northwest Passage

• New York

What animals that no longer exsist lived in Michigan?

• Mastadons, Saber tooth tiger and beavers

• Mastadons, Saber tooth tiger and beavers as large as bears

• Dodo bird and saber tooth tiger

• Mastadons and Dodo birds

Michigans land covers..

• 56,000 square miles

• 5,600 square miles

• 56,800 square miles

• 56,080 square miles