AR History 7 Module 1

Scientists call the breaking apart of the supercontinent Pangaea ______

• Natural selection

• Plate tectonics

• Continental drift

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  Paleozoic divide

Which Arkansas land region runs along our eastern border?

• Crowley's Ridge

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  The Arkansas River Valley

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  The Mississippi Alluvial Plain

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  The Ouachita Mountains

Archaeologists believe that Bayou Bartholomew was once a channel of which river?

• Arkansas River

• Mississippi River

• Buffalo River

• Ouachita River

The seismic zone that runs 150 miles through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas is called

• The Wasatch Fault

• The New Madrid Fault

• The San Andreas Fault

• The Denali Fault

Arkansas’s boundaries cover about how many square miles?

• 53,182

• 48,590

• 52,228

• 58,605

Every place in Arkansas has

• Forests

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  Wildlife

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  Prime meridians

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  An exact location

The name Arkansas is a Quapaw Indian word that means

• "Holy Ones."

• "Downstream People."

• "Keepers of the Land."

• "People of the Earth and Sky."

Which Arkansas town or city is NOT part of the Ozark Mountain region?

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  Eureka Springs

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  Bentonville

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  Fayetteville

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  Fort Smith

Climate is described as

• The state of what’s happening in the atmosphere at any given moment.

• The long-term weather pattern of a place.

• Nearness to the equator or large bodies of water.

• The ability to predict what the weather will do next.

What do scientists use to measure the strength of a tornado?

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  The Richter scale

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  A Geiger counter

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  The Fujita scale

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  A wind sock