Chapter 16 Test

Which term describes a gap between two mountains that makes them easier to get through?

• tundra

• pass

• flatland

In what part of the United States are the Rocky Mountains located?

• western

• eastern

• midwestern

Who were the first European explorers to investigate what is now Utah and Nevada?

• pioneers

• the English

• the Spanish

What discovery in Wyoming by a group of fur traders enabled pioneers to travel to Oregon and California in wagon trains?

• South Pass

• Pikes Peak

• Great Salt Lake

Who built their homes of clay on the mountain ledges?

• Spanish

• Pueblo Indians

• Ute Indians

The Continental Divide is best described as:

• A line of longitude that divides the Earth into eastern and western hemispheres.

• A natural boundary separating the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those that drain into the Atlantic Ocean.

• A political boundary between the United States and Canada.

• A mountain range that runs through the eastern United States.

An area in the artic region where only small shrubs, mosses and grasses can grow

a person who chops or saws down trees and takes the logs to a sawmill

a dry cliamte

a person with no permanent home who moves from place to place in search of food and water

• nomad

• homeless

• Mountain time