GCU 322 Reading Quiz 11 - Questions and Answers

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GCU 322 Reading Quiz 11 - Questions and Answers _____ is the leading wheat producer in the region. Saskatchewan _____ has the largest known reserves of coal of any states, and is the largest coal pr... oducer in the nation by far. Wyoming The city of _____ is home to many significant defense corporations and the Space Foundation, the largest nonprofit organization in the world for (outer) space education and advocacy. Colorado Springs Besides cold fronts, warm fronts, tornadoes, and thunderstorms, which of the following does the Great Plains NOT have? Tsunamis Some tribes, such as the Dakota (Sioux) and Blackfeet in the north, and the _____ in the south, became very powerful; for many years, they exerted strong influence over parts of the region. Comanche and Apache The Texas _____ Country of southwestern Texas contains one of the largest and most accessible deer herds in North America; along with its charming and attractive natural scenery and small towns, it is a magnet for tourists. Hill The most conspicuous cropping change associated with center pivots is the expansion of irrigated _____ production in the region, especially in Nebraska. Corn The Colorado Piedmont is a zone extending along the Rocky Mountain front, from the _____ Valley to the _____ Valley, where much of the alluvium has been eroded, causing the surface to be lower than the High Plains to the east. Arkansas/ Platte With ten producing mines and perhaps two-thirds of the world's known potash reserves, _____ could easily supply total world needs for the next 1,000 years. Saskatchewan After World War II, _____ rapidly became the foci of the western prairies as well as the twin centers of Canada's oil and gas industry. Calgary and Edmonton Merging with the prairie on the semiarid fringe to the west is the _____, where grasses are shorter and rainfall is less than 20 inches annually. Steppe There was practically no European settlement in the Canadian prairies until the 1870s. For the next 50 years, prairie settlement expanded erratically, often carried out by _____ groups. ethnic or religious Which of the following tourist attractions is NOT found in the Black Hills (at least it's not mentioned in the text)? an organic farmers market The term "Okie" was a derogatory label used by residents of _____ for the migrants from the southern Plains states that came there searching for work during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. California There are conspicuous badlands, as well as notable outliers of the Rocky Mountains, in: South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana Among the fifteen states and provinces with portions included in this region, only _____ lacks significant production of petroleum. Minnesota In the Texas Panhandle, more than 100,000 cattle can be accommodated at one time on large feedlots; feedlot capacity in the three principal counties of northeastern _____ is more than half a million. Colorado The most noted natural grasslands of the region are probably in the so-called bluestem belt: the Flint Hills of eastern _____ and Osage Hills of northeastern _____. Kansas/ Oklahoma Near the western margin, the plain is more than _____ feet above sea level in some places. At the eastern edge, the average elevation is less than _____ feet. 6,000/ 1,500 The top two sugar-beet producing states in the US are Minnesota and North Dakota, in both cases concentrated around the floodplain of the: Red River of the North In the Prairie provinces of Canada, the transition zone between the prairies to the south and the boreal forest to the north is the _____ area. Parkland [Show More]

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