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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?
(a) The Landsat Program.
(b) MapQuest.
(c) Google Maps.
(d) The SatNav Registry.

2. The author states in the Introduction that California has the two biggest irrigation projects on earth, but its irrigated acreage is not much larger than what U.S. state?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Alabama.

3. In what year did Marc Reisner die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2007.

4. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Sierra Nevada.
(b) The Cascade Range.
(c) The Wasatch Range.
(d) The Brooks Range.

5. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?
(a) Lichens.
(b) Trees.
(c) Ferns.
(d) Mushrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

2. The narrator states in Chapter Four that “If the Colorado River suddenly stopped flowing, you would have” how many “years of carryover capacity in the reservoirs before you had to evacuate most of southern California and Arizona and a good portion of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming”?

3. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?

4. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?

5. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?

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