Chapter 1

Question 0

Scientists refer to the breaking apart of the new super continent as ?

Answer 0

Continental drift

Question 1

Name for the super continent

Answer 1

Pangaea

Question 2

What runs for 150 miles through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and into Arkansas?

Answer 2

The New Madrid Fault Line

Question 3

Scientists who study earthquakes are referred to as ?

Answer 3

Seismologists

Question 4

How does a lock work?

Answer 4

When the boat enters the lock, it raises or lowers the water to the level of the river on the other side

Question 5

What is a Quapaw Indian term that means “down stream people”?

Answer 5

Arkansas

Question 6

Describe how a levee works

Answer 6

It only protects structures outside the levee. But on the inside the floodwaters continue to fill up. It acts like a giant bathtub

Question 7

What does the Alogonquin Indian term “Mississippi” mean?

Answer 7

Large river

Question 8

Mostly flat areas where excess water from the river spills over onto the Valley floors

Answer 8

Floodplains

Question 9

The bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world and archaeologists believe it was once a channel of what?

Answer 9

The Arkansas River

Question 10

What are the three largest towns or cities in the Ozark Mountain region?

Answer 10

Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville

Question 11

What area in Southwest Arkansas has a totally unique ecosystem to any other in Arkansas? It is believed by geologists to be a shoreline of an ancient ocean.

Answer 11

The Blackland Prairie

Question 12

In 2000, what report states that 2.6 million people lived in AR?

Answer 12

US Census report

Question 13

What gives us strong, lightweight metal known as aluminum?

Answer 13

Bauxite

Question 14

What is used by scientists to measure the strength of a tornado?

Answer 14

Fujita scale

Question 15

What is the long-term weather pattern of a location called?

Answer 15

Climate

Question 16

What is a destructive practice of the early lumber companies when they stripped the land of all or most of the trees?

Answer 16

Clear cutting

Question 17

What region runs along the eastern border of Arkansas?

Answer 17

Mississippi Alluvial Plain

Question 18

Every town or place in Arkansas has an exact location pinpointed by using what two types of lines?

Answer 18

Latitude and longitude

Question 19

Lines measuring north and south

Answer 19

Longitude

Question 20

Lines measuring east and west

Answer 20

Latitude

Question 21

Name the two men tasked to survey Arkansas by President Madison

Answer 21

Prospect Robbins and Joseph Brown

Question 22

What is a type of rock containing smooth to glassy crystals?

Answer 22

Igneous

Question 23

What is a type of rock that is layered and some contain plant and animal fossils?

Answer 23

Sedimentary

Question 24

What is a type of rock that has a course to finely grained look with crystals that are shiny?

Answer 24

Metamorphic

Question 25

As far as size, Arkansas ranks _____ out of 50 states?

Answer 25

29th

Question 26

How many square miles does Arkansas cover?

Answer 26

53,182 square miles

Question 27

What is a seismologist?

Answer 27

A scientist who studies earthquakes

Question 28

Arkansas is a Quapaw Indian term that means what?

Answer 28

Down stream people