WorksheetsGeography & The Great Plains
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is a feature of the Great Plains?
a)
Frequent rain storms
b)
Heavy snowfall
c)
Frequent dust storms
d)
Lack of grasslands
2.
What area is the center of the automobile industry?
a)
Pittsburgh
b)
Chicago
c)
New England
d)
Detroit
3.
Which area was the center of the meat packing industry?
a)
Chicago
b)
Detroit
c)
New England
d)
Pittsburgh
4.
What area was the center of the textile industry post 1865?
a)
San Francisco
b)
New England
c)
New York
d)
Chicago
5.
Which area is the center of steel production?
a)
Chicago
b)
New England
c)
San Francisco
d)
Pittsburgh
6.
Which statement about the Great Plains is TRUE?
a)
The Great Plains
lacked good
farm land.
lacked good
farm land.
b)
The Great
Plains were
just desert
areas.
Plains were
just desert
areas.
c)
The Great
Plains were a
vast area to
be settled
Plains were a
vast area to
be settled
d)
The Great
Plains were a
treeless
wasteland
Plains were a
treeless
wasteland
7.
Railroads, Windmills, Steel Plows and Barbed Wire can best be described as what?
a)
Native American Technology
b)
Items Used to Settle the Appalachian Mountains
c)
Life on the Great Plains
d)
Inventions and Adaptations Used to Settle the Great Plains
8.
If you lived in Denver, which regions would you cross to reach St. Louis?
a)
Rocky Mountains (Western) and Midwest
b)
Pacific and Southwest
c)
Northeast and Southeast
d)
Midwest and Northeast
9.
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia are part of which region?
a)
Midwest
b)
Northeast
c)
Rocky Mountains
d)
Southwest
10.
Which of the following was NOT an adaptation used by settlers to change the Great Plains environment?
a)
Dry farming
b)
Sod houses
c)
Steel plow
d)
Plantations
11.
What inventions helped farmers fence their fields?
a)
Railroads
b)
Steel plows
c)
Windmills
d)
Barbed wire
12.
What development changed people’s perception of the Great Plains?
a)
Availability of land in the eastern areas
b)
New Technologies
c)
Removal of Native Americans
d)
Transportation barriers
13.
Which area was the primary destination for iron ore deposits to sites of steel mills?
a)
Chicago
b)
Detroit
c)
Pittsburgh
d)
New England
14.
Southwest Region: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, __________ what state is missing?
a)
Colorado
b)
Oklahoma
c)
Oregon
d)
Montana
15.
After 1865 manufacturing areas were clustered around what?
a)
the Great Plains
b)
farms in the South
c)
centers of population
d)
former Civil War battlefields
16.
Alaska and Hawaii belong to which geographic region?
a)
Rocky Mountains (Western)
b)
Midwest
c)
Northeast
d)
noncontiguous
17.
What grade are you going to get on this test?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
F
d)
D
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