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Geography 417

Practice Quiz 3 - Biomes/Agriculture Review - Indians Preview

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The following quiz is provided for you to check your understanding of the material you will be responsible for knowing later in the semester.

 

Directions: Consult your class notes, your reading assignments or on-line exercises to find the information you need to complete this quiz. Similar questions will appear on the in-class version of this quiz, but it will be worth a greater portion of your semester-end grade. Click on the radio button that corresponds to the letter next to the best answer to the question.

 

Quiz Table
Question Answer Letter Questions and Answer Options
1.Prep


1.

Why did most California Indians use acorns for their staple item in their diet?

a.

Acorns have a lot of calories

b.

Acorns were abundant

c.

Acorns were easy to store

d.

All of these
2.Prep


2.

What resource management practice did the 'hunter and gatherer' tribe engage in that helped boost production of food?

a.

managing buffalo waste to fertilize crops

b.

using dead fish to fertilize crops

c.

building dams to help catch fish

d.

fire to improve soil and remove ground cover
3.Prep

3.

 Which of these California Indian groups has been indentified as the most advanced and prosperous?

a.

 Cherokee

b.

 Miwoks

c.

 Navaho

d.

 Chumash
4.Prep

4.

 Which of these tribes people would you meet if you could travel back in time to the 1600s in Los Angeles?

a.

 Chumash

b.

 Apache

c.

 Paiute

d.

 Tongva
5. Prep

5.

 Which group was the most populous of the California Indians?

a.

 Iroqouis 

b.

 Miwoks

c.

 North Valley Indians

d.

 Franciscans
6.Review

6.

 The oak woodlands once provided:

a.

 Wood for California's charcoal industry of the 1800s

b.

 The wood to rebuild San Francisco after the 1905 earthquake.

c.

 Game forage and food supplies for the Indians of the Great Central Valley.

d.

 All of these
7.Review

7.

 What is the forest type generally found in the mountains surrounding Los Angeles?

a.

 Sagebrush and Chapparal

b.

 Pinon Pine

c.

 Coastal Oaks

d.

 Douglas Fir
8.Review

8

 Which of these types of trees would you find most common in the Klamath mountains?

a.

 Lodge pole pine

b.

 coastal redwood

c.

 douglas fir

d.

 giant sequoia
9.Review

9.

 At one time, the California Prairie covered vast areas of this part of the state:

a.

 Great Central Valley

b.

 Modoc Plateau

c.

 Central Coast

d.

 Northern Coast
10.Review

10.

 Pryophitic plants are those that are well adapted to:

a.

 drought

b.

 fire

c.

 floods

d.

 salty soils
11.Review

11.

What is California's most valuable agricultural product? (lecture notes)

a.

cotton

b.

milk and cream

c.

soybeans

d.

Citrus
12.Review

12.

Perhaps there are more dairy farms in the counties surrounding LA than elsewhere.  Why?

a.

these counties were settled by many Swiss and German settlers

b.

they are close to major markets for dairy products

c.

the soil is unable to support other  agricultural pursuits

d.

all of the above





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