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WorksheetsChapter 12, Harcourt SS, Grade 4
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which state has the highest land in North America?
a)
Alaska
b)
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
c)
Hawaii
d)
Idaho
2.
What causes an earthquake?
a)
A tropical storm forms off the Pacific Coast
b)
Gases, Ash and lava pour out from a crater
c)
Hot and cold air masses collide
d)
Movement occurs along faults
3.
Which is the lowest, hottest, and driest place in the US
a)
Central Valley
b)
Death Valley
c)
Great Salt Lake
d)
Great Basin
4.
Which of these physical features formed the greatest barrier for early explorers and settlers of the West?
a)
Death Valley
b)
Mississippi River
c)
Pacific Ocean
d)
Rocky Mountains
5.
Which is the wettest place in the US?
a)
Grand Teton
b)
Mt Waialeale
c)
Death Valley
d)
Prospect Creek
6.
Who was Lewis and Clark's guide?
a)
Virginia Reed
b)
Pocahontas
c)
Sacagawea
7.
Which form of communication replaced the Pony Express?
a)
computer
b)
telephone
c)
telegraph
d)
radio
8.
What are public lands?
a)
Lands set aside to protect resources
b)
land owned by government
c)
lands all citizens can use for recreation
d)
no logging, ranching, or farming allowed
9.
Group of wagons pulled by horses, mules, or oxen
a)
wagon train
b)
Oregon Trail
c)
Forty niners
10.
Person who went to California in 1849 in search of gold
a)
Boomer
b)
Guide
c)
Forty-Niner
11.
An opening in Earth's surface out of which hot gases, ash and lava pours.
a)
volcano
b)
crater
c)
fault
d)
boom
12.
A town that grew quickly.
a)
Boomtown
b)
Settlement
c)
Fort Smith
13.
A machine that uses electricity to send messages over wires.
a)
Telephone
b)
Telegraph
c)
Telepath
14.
Hot melted rock that comes from a volcano.
a)
Lava
b)
Molt
c)
Crater
15.
Who did the US buy Alaska from?
a)
China
b)
France
c)
Spain
d)
Russia
16.
Name the form of communication that was used before the telegraph.
a)
Telephone
b)
Internet
c)
Pony Express
d)
Transcontinental Railroad
17.
Most ____ and _____ in the West are in the states that border the Pacific Ocean.
a)
Rainforest and grasslands
b)
Tundra and grasslands
c)
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
d)
Volcanoes and Floods
18.
What is the name of the imaginary line that splits the West and where the water flows to 2 different oceans?
a)
Transcontinental
b)
Fault
c)
Continental Divide
19.
Lewis and Clark traveled up the _____ River.
a)
Missouri
b)
Mississippi
c)
Polk
d)
Green
20.
Which wagon is larger?
a)
Conestoga
b)
Prairie Schooner
21.
Line above which trees to not grow?
a)
crater
b)
fault
c)
timberline
d)
divide
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