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11/9/23, 8:26 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 1/43 Reading Quiz 14 Due Nov 16 at 11:59pm Points 40 Questions 80 Available Nov 3 at 12am - Nov 16 at 11:59pm Time Limit None Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 44 minutes 39.5 out of 40 Score for this quiz: 39.5 out of 40 Submitted Nov 9 at 6:27pm This attempt took 44 minutes. 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 1 High peaks of seven prominent mountain ranges dot the perimeter of the upper Colorado River's drainage basin. The Wasatch, _____, and Wind River Ranges flank the Colorado Basin on the northwest; and the Medicine Bow, Front, Sawatch, and _____ Ranges border it on the east. Laramie/ Sangre de Cristo Wyoming/ Sangre de Cristo Bighorn/ San Juan Wyoming/ San Juan Correct! Correct! Bighorn/ Laramie
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 2/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 2 A gap between the Uintas and the main body of the Rocky Mountains marks the drainage area of the Colorado's major tributary, the _____ River, which extends northward into Wyoming. Only the gently sloping surface of the of the Great Divide Basin separates this river from the headwaters of the North Platte. Snake Green Correct! Correct! Gila Pecos San Juan 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 3 Ever since John Wesley Powell wrote about his 1869 experience, the Colorado River has attracted mainly those who seek adventure. Except for _____, the river has never been a route for transportation or trade. the near the Mogollon Rim the area near the Four Corners the Wyoming portion the New Mexico portion its lower reaches Correct! Correct!
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 3/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 4 Like the _____, the Colorado River is an exotic stream, gathering its water in one region and then flowing through a desert on its way to the ocean. Mekong in Southeast Asia Rhine in Europe Parana in southern South America Ganges in South Asia Nile in Africa Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 5 Which is NOT one of the Colorado River's many upper-basin tributaries? Green Gunnison Dolores Virgin Correct! Correct! Yampa San Juan White
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 4/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 6 The _____ Mountains are an uplifted maze of volcanic peaks and glaciated mountain valleys that pose an extremely difficult topography to cross and effectively isolate southwestern Colorado from the rest of the state. Wind River San Juan Correct! Correct! Medicine Bow Sawatch Front Range 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 7 Early mining centers of the San Juan mountains, such as _____, were fabled boomtowns during Colorado's gold and silver mining era, although they have long since shifted to recreation and tourism for their economic support. Ouray, Telluride, and Silverton Correct! Correct! Ouray, Pagosa Springs, and South Fork Pagosa Springs, Silverton, and South Fork Ouray, Telluride, and Pagosa Springs Telluride, Silverton, and South Fork
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 5/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 8 Although skiing was the main attraction to outsiders, the ski industry itself was secondary to _____ development in most of the western Rocky Mountains, and so it has remained. agricultural real estate Correct! Correct! industrial mineral timber 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 9 As elsewhere in the Rocky Mountains, the transition from "wilderness" to "overcrowded" was alarmingly swift once _____ boom began. a real estate Correct! Correct! the logging the road-building the hunting and fishing the mining 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 10
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 6/43 The geologic history of the Colorado Plateau is nearly identical with that of the Rocky Mountains up to the time of the Laramide orogeny (the mountain-building phase that created the Rockies, _____ million years ago). 65 Correct! Correct! 550 6.5 650 5.5 55 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 11 Which of the following is NOT a generalized feature of the Colorado Plateau? shales limestones alluvial fans Correct! Correct! deep canyons multicolored sandstones 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 12
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 7/43 The Colorado Plateau is bounded on the east by the: Wasatch Range Mogollon Rim Sonoran Desert Great Basin Continental Divide Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 13 In all, the Colorado Plateau encompasses one hundred and fifty thousand square miles, about _____ percent of which is drained by the Colorado River and its tributaries. 80 55 70 65 75 85 90 Correct! Correct! 60 95
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 8/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 14 Apart from small irrigated sections, such as the peach orchards near _____, Colorado, and the San Juan meadows of northern New Mexico, the Colorado Plateau region lacks suitable agricultural land, even though it does possess adequate irrigation water. Silverton Durango Montrose Alamosa Grand Junction Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 15 Flat land in the Colorado Plateau lies primarily at high elevations, not low, which limits the reliable growing season; hence, there are few opportunities for crop production. Recent attempts at irrigation, based on a diversion of waters from the _____ River to plateau lands of the Navajo reservation, have been only modestly successful. Mancos San Juan Correct! Correct! San Miguel La Plata Piedra
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 9/43 Los Pinos Rio Grande San Rafael Dolores Animas 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 16 Coal mines in the Yampa Valley of Colorado supply steel mills from Pueblo, Colorado to the _____ area. Pittsburgh Chicago Correct! Correct! Detroit Denver Indianapolis St. Louis Cleveland Milwaukee Kansas City Minneapolis-St. Paul
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 10/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 17 Colorado now ranks eighth among the states in natural gas production and has _____ of the fifty largest natural gas formations in terms of reserves. Pipelines carry Colorado natural gas to southern California and the Pacific Northwest. twenty-one five Correct! Correct! twelve eight sixteen 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 18 The most promising source of radium in the US was carnotite, a _____, uranium-bearing rock abundant in the Colorado Plateau. orangish pinkish yellowish Correct! Correct! whitish reddish brownish greenish
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 11/43 purplish 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 19 The first important uranium discovery, made near _____, in 1952, stimulated a dramatic although short-lived mining boom. By the late 1950s the federal government (which purchased the entire output of Colorado Plateau uranium) believed its stockpile was sufficient and thereby ended the mining boom. Moab, Utah Correct! Correct! Holbrook, Arizona Dove Creek, Colorado Grants, New Mexico Cedar City, Utah 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 20 Waste byproducts of uranium _____ on the Colorado Plateau were shown to present a hazard to those who lived nearby. The Plateau region remains as the major source of uranium in the US, but the prospects for a revival of the industry are uncertain. refineries Correct! Correct! crushing mining
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 12/43 concentrating transportation leaching 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 21 The Colorado Plateau's fascinating topography of plateaus, mesas, and canyons has made _____ the region's most important industry. real estate development retail sales highway-building transportation tourism Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 22 Grand Canyon was set aside as a national park in 1919. _____ National Parks in Utah, which also offer examples of differentially eroded sandstones, limestones, and shales into castellated rock formations, were established shortly thereafter. By the 1990s, national parks and recreation areas enveloped most the Colorado River as well as some of its tributaries. Bryce Canyon and Canyonlands Arches and Capitol Reef
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 13/43 Zion and Arches Canyonlands and Capitol Reef Zion and Bryce Canyon Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 23 Athabaskan-speakers from northern Canada arrived sometime between AD 800 and 1500. The northerners divided into two groups. The Apache established themselves _____ of the Colorado Plateau, and the Navajo took up residence on the Plateau itself. north and east south and west east and west north and west south and north south and east Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 24 Not only are the Apache and Navajo close relatives, but both are also linked to to other Athabaskan-speaking groups of: Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Zacatecas states in Mexico Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 14/43 the Northwest Territories of Canada Correct! Correct! far northern Alaska, Canada's Baffin Island, and the west coast of Greenland the provinces of Quebec and Ontario 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 25 The entrance of the Navajo into the Southwest may have been _____ the Spanish in the 16th century, although their date of arrival remains unknown. a somewhat long time before about the same time as a significantly long time before only slightly before Correct! Correct! quite a long time before 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 26 The Navajo acquired the use of the rifle and the horse, and learned to herd sheep, from the: Anglo Spanish Correct! Correct!
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 15/43 Zuni Hopi Anasazi 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 27 The return to Arizona (after they left Bosque Redondo) marked the beginning of an era of great prosperity for the Navajo. Their herds expanded as a part of the general growth of the range livestock industry in the Southwest once railroads entered the region in the: 1900s 1870s 1860s 1890s 1880s Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 28 Navajo people became expert in producing blankets and jewelry for sale to _____ who traveled aboard the trains that passed through Navajo country. tourists Correct! Correct! stock raisers
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 16/43 homesteaders and land speculators soldiers and surveyors miners and prospectors 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 29 Navajo population numbers expanded from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands during the: 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s second half of the 19th century Bosque Redondo and Dust Bowl time periods 20th century Correct! Correct! 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 30 It is likely that rumors about the _____ pueblos, which the Spanish imagined contained fortunes in gold, first attracted the Spaniards northward from Mexico in the 16th century. Hohokam and Havasupai Hopi and Zuni Correct! Correct! Navajo and Hopi
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 17/43 Hohokam and Zuni Navajo and Havasupai 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 31 The heart of the Hopi reservation is a series of small villages built at the steep, rock-faced precipices of _____ Mesa, _____ Mesa, and _____ Mesa, an irregular line of bluffs with an unobstructed view of the valley below. Left/ Central/ Right First/ Second/ Third Correct! Correct! East/ Middle/ West Yellow/ Orange/ Pink Primary/ Secondary/ Tertiary Black/ White/ Red 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 32 Hopi religious beliefs and social organizations, as well as their matrilocal residence pattern and their habits of egalitarianism and village autonomy, have attracted generations of _____ to the mesa-edge villages. linguistic scholars hippies and counterculturalists
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 18/43 urban escapists and avant garde artists New Agers and modern animists cultural anthropologists Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 33 The Hopi strategy of avoiding _____ probably saved them from annihilation. military confrontation Correct! Correct! cattle ranching modern inventions trading posts European-based diseases selling land 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 34 The Hopi mesas are southward extensions of _____, a massive bituminous coal formation that lies within the Navajo and Hopi reservations. the Chuska Mountains the Painted Desert
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 19/43 the Kaibab Plateau Black Mesa Correct! Correct! the Roan Plateau 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 35 Which town is NOT along the route of the land-grant railroad built along the 35th parallel in the 1880s (which became a main corridor of travel)? Albuquerque Flagstaff Prescott Correct! Correct! Needles Gallup Seligman Kingman Holbrook 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 36 Today the Burlington Northern Santa Fe/ _____ corridor is the busiest rail and highway route across the Southwest. I-25
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 20/43 I-70 I-84 I-8 I-11 I-15 I-40 Correct! Correct! I-19 I-10 I-80 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 37 The _____-thousand-foot elevations of the Mogollon Rim represent the slightly upturned edges of Plateau strata on which a narrow belt of more rugged topography has formed. nine five eight four six seven Correct! Correct!
11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 21/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 38 As specified in the reading, the Mogollon Rim receives enough moisture to support the growth of an open, _____forest. Douglas fir ponderosa pine Correct! Correct! Engelmann spruce lodgepole pine pinon pine and juniper 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 39 Which Arizona town is NOT in the mid-elevation band between high plateau and low desert? Payson Clarkdale Page Correct! Correct! Jerome Sedona Prescott
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 22/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 40 As elsewhere in the West, vegetation and land use in the Sonoran Desert are determined largely by elevation and: cloud cover soil mineralization length of growing seasons surface topography slope aspect Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 41 The Sonoran Desert receives roughly the same amount of _____ as the Colorado Plateau, but because it lies at a lower elevation, and due to other factors, the Sonoran Desert has hotter temperatures. precipitation Correct! Correct! thunderstorms wind sunshine evaporation 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 42
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 23/43 The woody stems of the _____ have no branches but are covered in very small green leaves. This type of plant-physiological adaptation, known as microphyllous habit, minimizes water loss through transpiration from leaf surfaces. mesquite ironwood ocotillo saguaro palo verde Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 43 Because succulent plants contain _____, they are especially vulnerable to freezing and are often found only on the lowest desert slopes. The saguaro is perhaps the best-known desert cactus. needles tiny leaves water Correct! Correct! ridges and "ribs" shallow root systems 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 44
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 24/43 Geologically, the Sonoran Desert is part of the _____ section, and thus it exhibits the same characteristic topography of low, widely spaced mountain ridges. Mojave Desert Basin and Range Correct! Correct! Southern Rocky Mountains Colorado Plateau Colorado River Basin 0 / 0.5 pts Question 45 Much of the Sonoran Desert is tributary to a river that rises in the Black Range of New Mexico and flows west. Because of upstream dam developments, this river, the _____, is now often a dry streambed west of Phoenix. Verde Pecos Gila orrect Answer orrect Answer Rio Grande Colorado ou Answered ou Answered 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 46
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 25/43 At lower latitudes in the region, desert environments are continuous from southern California's coastal mountains to _____ in Texas. Austin the Pecos River Correct! Correct! the Edwards Plateau the Rio Grande San Antonio the Hill Country 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 47 The US-Mexican border between El Paso and Yuma, which resulted from the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, was drawn to contain a _____ route for a transcontinental railroad entirely within American territory. basin-and-range low-elevation Correct! Correct! ridge-and-valley desert treeless non-mountainous
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 26/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 48 The many mountain ranges of far western Texas are all part of the _____ section. Some, such as the half-dozen ranges in the Big Bend region, have peaks over 6,000 feet, but they are isolated and pose no obstacle to travel. Colorado River Basin Basin and Range Correct! Correct! Colorado Plateau Southern Rocky Mountains Mojave Desert 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 49 The primary reason for the acquisition of the Gadsden Purchase was the availability of a lowland route through the Sonoran Desert, which meant that an all-weather transcontinental railroad route could be constructed from _____ to _____ that was free of high mountain grades. Dallas/ Yuma New Orleans/ Arizona Albuquerque/ San Francisco El Paso/ Phoenix San Antonio/ California Correct! Correct!
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 27/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 50 Jefferson Davis's interest in a desert routeway from _____ to the Pacific Coast even led him to experiment with using camels as pack animals. Texas the Cotton South Correct! Correct! Georgia Arkansas the Confederacy 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 51 The Gadsden Purchase added enough territory to secure the route to the Gila River's confluence: with the Rio Grande at Albuquerque with the Colorado River near Las Vegas with the Colorado River at Yuma Correct! Correct! with the Salt River at Phoenix with the Rio Grande at El Paso with the Salt River at Tucson
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 28/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 52 By the time the Pacific Railroad Act was passed in 1862, the chosen route crossed _____, not New Mexico and Arizona. North Dakota and Montana Idaho and Nevada Wyoming and Oregon Idaho and Washington Wyoming and Utah Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 53 The railroad across southern Arizona was built, but not until the: 1900s 1880s Correct! Correct! 1870s 1860s 1890s 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 54
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 29/43 Which Arizona city was NOT mentioned in the reading as a copper mining location? Globe-Miami Prescott Correct! Correct! Morenci Ajo Superior 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 55 Most Arizona copper mines use the open-pit method, although some underground mines still operate. In recent years, _____ methods have been introduced. Some mines operate with all three methods of extraction. AI-based laser supercomputing-based electric-current based explosive magnetic pole leaching Correct! Correct! sonar
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 30/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 56 The final stage of the copper process, copper refining, is done at: Tucson Phoenix Pacific coastal ports various locations in the eastern US Gulf of Mexico coastal ports various locations around the world Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 57 Southern Arizona and New Mexico have combinations of cities that pair mine/concentrator complexes with nearby smelting centers. Which of the following combination of cities is NOT one of those types of pairs? Santa Rita-Hurley Clifton-Morenci Bisbee-Douglas Ray-Hayden Sedona-Payson Correct! Correct!
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 31/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 58 Taken together, Arizona's and New Mexico's copper mines and smelters account for roughly _____ of the copper industry of the United States at present, with the Bingham Canyon-Magna complex in Utah contributing much of the rest. one-half two-thirds one-fourth one-third three-fourths Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 59 _____ farmers began irrigating portions of the Salt River Valley at Phoenix in the 1860s. Mexican-based Military-based Spanish-based Mining-based Anglo Correct! Correct! Native American African American
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 32/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 60 Tucson was reliant on _____ supplies which were adequate for urban and agricultural uses until recent decades. nearby reservoir surface water rainfall storage groundwater Correct! Correct! mountain lake 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 61 By _____ Phoenix has surpassed Tucson in size and had become a major transportation center. 1920 Correct! Correct! 1870 1910 1900 1940 1950 1890
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 33/43 1930 1880 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 62 Phoenix is ringed by a series of smaller centers--Glendale, Mesa, Scottsdale, and Chandler--that also emerged mostly from irrigation schemes, somewhat in the same fashion as _____ and its satellite cities. San Francisco Denver Dallas Los Angeles Correct! Correct! Houston Las Vegas Albuquerque El Paso Salt Lake City Tucson 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 63 A Phoenix-area community, _____, was created in 1916 by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which converted thousands of acres of desert
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 34/43 land to the production of irrigated, long-staple cotton (pima cotton), which at one time was considered essential in the manufacture of automobile tires. Litchfield Park Correct! Correct! Avondale Glendale Tolleson Peoria 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 64 Arizona's copper acreage declined in recent years as land was sold for _____, cotton prices dropped, and farmers chose to plant more crops like alfalfa, which supply the state's growing dairy industry. transportation routes development Correct! Correct! industry municipal facilities educational purposes 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 65 Arizona was a latecomer in laying claim to the Colorado River's water, after diversions had been made to irrigate the Colorado Piedmont and
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 35/43 California's _____ Valley and to supply the water needs of southern California generally. Temescal Simi San Fernando Central Imperial Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 66 The Central Arizona Water Project involves a series of ten aqueducts and pumping stations beginning at _____ to deliver water as far as _____. Lake Mead/ Flagstaff Lake Powell/ Prescott Lake Mohave/ Phoenix Lake Roosevelt/ Surprise Lake Havasu/ Tucson Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 67 The lower Colorado Valley has boomed in the past four decades. Gambling casinos and retirement communities appeared in the all-new settlements of _____, Nevada and _____, Arizona, built on opposite banks of the river.
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 36/43 Blythe/ Parker Needles/ Lake Havasu City Needles/ Bullhead City Laughlin/ Lake Havasu City Laughlin/ Bullhead City Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 68 Entrepreneurs purchased London Bridge, dismantled it, and moved it in pieces to _____, where it was reconstructed as a tourist attraction. Parker Lake Havasu City Correct! Correct! Bullhead City Boulder City Laughlin Barstow Needles Blythe Kingman Yuma
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 37/43 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 69 The largest hydroelectric power installations on the Colorado are Hoover Dam, constructed in the late 1930s to supply power to _____; and Glen Canyon Dam, constructed in the late 1950s to supply power to _____. northern California/ southern California southern California/ northern California northern California/ central Arizona central Arizona/ southern California southern California/ central Arizona Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 70 The reservoirs impounded behind Hoover and Glen Canyon and other dams act as massive evaporation pans in the intense desert heat that produce water losses to the atmosphere rivaling the entire volumes of flow from some of the Colorado's: larger irrigation areas lower-basin tributaries upper-basin tributaries Correct! Correct! middle sections lower stretches smaller reservoirs major canals
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 38/43 upper reaches source-region mountain lakes smaller irrigation zones 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 71 The total amount of water in the Colorado Basin is not adequate to serve all of the needs that have been promised, and there is no possibility for a transfer of water into the basin. Thus a _____ seems inevitable. curtailment of water use Correct! Correct! cessation of agricultural activities migration of people leaving the region technological switch to using more treated sewage water slowing down of people moving to the region 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 72 That the Colorado river's flow is fully accounting for in existing diversions is revealed in the fact that essentially no water remains in the Colorado's channel as it meanders toward the Gulf of California south of _____. It is only an irrigation drain, carrying the runoff from fields through which its waters have already passed. Parker the All-American canal
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 39/43 the I-8 crossing the Mexican border Correct! Correct! San Luis the Imperial Sand Dunes the I-10 crossing the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge Yuma 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 73 The sink of the Imperial Valley is _____, which is 235 feet below sea level, and occupies the lowest portion of the Salton Trough. the Salton Sea Correct! Correct! the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge the town of Ocotillo Wells the city of Indio the Imperial Sand Dunes 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 74 The Salton Trough's northern end, known as the _____ Valley, contains the resort community of Palm Springs and a small area of irrigated agriculture at Indio.
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 40/43 Antelope Santa Ana Moreno Coachella Correct! Correct! Lucerne 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 75 Air settling from the Mojave Desert downslope through _____ Pass and into the Salton Trough creates a rush of wind sufficient to turn the blades of more than 2,500 wind turbines placed there to generate electricity. Imperial Beaumont-Banning San Jacinto Santa Ana San Gorgonio Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 76 The lowest portion of the Salton Trough separates the _____ Valley to the north from the larger _____ Valley, which borders it on the south. San Fernando/ Temescal
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 41/43 Central/ San Fernando Coachella/ Temescal Central/ Imperial Coachella/ Imperial Correct! Correct! 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 77 The inflow of water (at the time of the irrigation accident) was sufficient to establish the Salton Sea at approximately its current size, and it has been maintained since that time by: summer thunderstorms agricultural runoff Correct! Correct! winter rainfall mountain snowmelt excess irrigation water 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 78 In 1942 the All-American Canal (referring to its point of diversion north of the international border) was completed to divert Colorado River water to new irrigation districts near _____, California. Moreno Valley Hemet
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 42/43 El Centro Correct! Correct! Palm Springs Temecula 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 79 In the Imperial Valley fields of alfalfa are raised to supply the nearly _____ head of beef and dairy cattle. Winter vegetables, including lettuce, spinach, and carrots, are other important crops. two-and-a-half million 200,000 two million one-half million Correct! Correct! one million 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 80 What little water remains in the Colorado River beyond its diversion into the All-American Canal supports a final irrigation zone south of the border, the _____ Valley of Mexico, which produces fruit and vegetables sold mainly north of the border. Given the northwestward slope of the land surface here, irrigation waters from the Mexican side drain back north into the US. La Paz
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11/9/23, 8:27 PM Reading Quiz 14: GCU 322: Geography of U.S. and Canada (2023 Fall - B) https://asu.instructure.com/courses/148617/quizzes/1230308 43/43 Mexicali Correct! Correct! Calexico El Centro San Luis Quiz Score: 39.5 out of 40
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