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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. What divides the Plateau Province?
(a) The Wind River Mountains.
(b) The Wasatch Mountains.
(c) The Great Salt Lake.
(d) The Black Mountains.

2. What is the cause of the cliffs in the Terrace Plateaus?
(a) A glacier.
(b) Erosion.
(c) A volcano.
(d) Faults.

3. What feeds the Colorado in the high region during the summer months?
(a) Melted snow.
(b) Thunderstorms.
(c) Rain storms.
(d) Underground springs.

4. What is found in Walnut Canyon?
(a) An oasis.
(b) Cliff houses.
(c) Volcanic pools.
(d) Walnut trees.

5. The Colorado River forms a natural boundary between which two states?
(a) Califonria and Nevada.
(b) Nevada and Utah.
(c) California and Arizona.
(d) Utah and Arizona.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many miles long is the Colorado River?

2. Which part of the Colorado River is the desert portion?

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

4. What is the name of the highest of the volcanic mountains in Arizona?

5. What are the skills of the Zuni Indians?

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