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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Cliffs and Terraces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Terrace Plateaus are a group of ______.
(a) Indian tribes.
(b) Tablelands.
(c) Cliff dwellings.
(d) Rivers.

2. Which of the following is a feature of the Plateau Province?
(a) Cliffs.
(b) Thick forests.
(c) Lakelets.
(d) Abuntant wildlife.

3. Which part of the Colorado River is the desert portion?
(a) The lower portion.
(b) The eastern portion.
(c) The upper portion.
(d) The western portion.

4. What is the height of the escarpment?
(a) 5,000 feet.
(b) 2,000 feet.
(c) 4,000 feet.
(d) 100 feet.

5. Some of the rock displacements in Chapter IV are flexures instead of ______.
(a) Carvings.
(b) Breaks.
(c) Fractures.
(d) Rock slides.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made shelters of boughs and bark?

2. The Colorado River forms where which two rivers meet?

3. What is the highest elevation of the high region?

4. How many rivers flow through the Pink Cliffs?

5. Where do the Wind River, the Green River and the Gros Ventre River begin?

(see the answer key)

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