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West Review Game Part I
Test Description: Review game over the West Region
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is one of the tallest mountain ranges in North America that runs from Alaska into the U.S.?
A
Cascade Mountains
B
Appalachian Mountains
C
Rocky Mountains
2) What volcano last erupted in 1980?
A
Appalachian Mountains
B
Mount Denali
C
Mount St. Helen
3) What landform borders the western side of the U.S.?
A
Great Salt Lake
B
Atlantic Ocean
C
Pacific Ocean
4) What transportation line started in the east and west and met at Promontory Summit, Utah?
A
Erie Canal
B
Transcontinental Railroad
C
Columbia River
5) What is the largest saltwater lake located in Utah?
A
Pacific Ocean
B
Columbia River
C
Great Salt Lake
6) What is the highest mountain in the U.S. and is located in Alaska?
A
Mount St. Helen
B
Cascades
C
Mount Denali
7) What is the hottest place in the U.S.?
A
Death Valley
B
Rocky Mountains
C
Juneau, Alaska
8) What is a low-lying area of land, bowl shaped, and lies between the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the Cascades?
A
island
B
Mount St. Helen
C
Great Basin
9) What is land surrounded by water (ex. Hawaii)?
A
Great Basin
B
island
C
Columbia River
10) What is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest that drains into the Pacific Ocean?
A
Great Salt Lake
B
Columbia River
C
Great Basin
11) What is the 1st mail delivery company to the West?
A
Transcontinental Railroad
B
Continental Divide
C
Pony Express
12) What is the imaginary line that runs north and south along the highest point of land separating the waters flowing east and west?
A
Continental Divide
B
Rocky Mountains
C
Transcontinental Railroad
13) What event caused many people to move to California in 1848 and 1849?
A
Gold Rush
B
Manifest Destiny
C
Great Depression
14) How did railroads change traveling to the West?
A
There were a lot more train wrecks.
B
Railroads made it even slower than it was before.
C
Railroads made it faster and easier to move to the West.
15) What period of time in the U.S. did people struggle to find jobs, earn money, and find food?
A
Great Depression
B
Attack on Pearl Harbor
C
Gold Rush
16) What event caused the United States to enter World War II?
A
Eruption of Mount St. Helen
B
Attack on Pearl Harbor
C
Holocaust
17) What trail began in Missouri and passed through Kansas and New Mexico
A
Santa Fe Trail
B
Oregon Trail
C
California Trail
D
Mormon Trail
18) What trail broke off from the Oregon Trail and went west to California?
A
Santa Fe Trail
B
Oregon Trail
C
California Trail
D
Mormon Trail
19) What trail began in Nauvo, Illinois and ended in Great Salt Lake, Utah?
A
California Trail
B
Oregon Trail
C
Santa Fe Trail
D
Mormon Trail
20) What trail began in Missouri and passed through Nebraska to the Oregon Territory?
A
Mormon Trail
B
Santa Fe Trail
C
California Trail
D
Oregon Trail
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