DUE: none
HW: study for test
Mrs. Shepherd's Utah Studies
Unit 4 Study Guide
Directions: In order to be more prepared for
the test, answer and review each of these questions.
1. History is the study of what?
2. Who are the groups of people who
settled Utah?
3. What climate zone is Utah located
in?
4. What is the highest mountain peak
in Utah?
5. What is Utah's major
source of water?
6. How is the exact location of a
place measured?
7. Why is life more difficult for
desert dwellers in Utah?
8. How did Utah's pioneers solve the
problem of not having enough rain water?
9. How do dams help us today?
10. What is the difference between
renewable and non-renewable resources?
11. What is a region?
12. What are the names of the three
major landform regions in Utah?
13. What are the major contributions
to Utah's economy?
14. What is the most important water
source for cities and farms?
15. What is the largest body of water
in Utah?
16. Explain why the Great Salt Lake
is 3-6 times saltier than any ocean.
17. Name the five most important conditions
of the air.
18. Name the three important factors
that affect the climate.
19. Name the three different climates
in Utah.
20. Why is Utah more likely to have
extreme changes in temperature?
21. What causes the scenery of
vegetation life to change?
22. How did people adapt after the
ice age?
23. What is an archaeologist?
24. What does "prehistoric"
mean?
25. What does "historic"
mean?
26. What are Danger Cave and Hogup
Cave and why are they important to Utah history?
27. Know the different characteristics
of the different Native American Groups.
28. What is "The Great
Encounter"?
29. Where do Europeans want to buy
and sell their goods?
30. Why did Christopher go on his
expedition in 1492?
31. Define a mission.
32. Define a presidio.
33. Who is Juan Rivera?
34. Who is Father Escalante and why
is he significant?
35. Define Ethnocentricity and know
how it relates to the interactions between Europeans and Native Americans.
36. Know the two different major fur
trapping companies we talked about
37. Define a Rendezvous and what its
purpose is.
38. Define what a cache is and what
its purpose is.
39. Why were beavers so important to
the mountain men and the world in the early 1800s?
40. What is the Old Spanish Trail?
41. Why did the Era of the Mountain Men
end?
42. What was the cultural exchange
that took place between the explorers, trappers, and American Indians? How did
it happen? Can you think of an example?
43. Know the different Mountain Men
and their major contributions to Utah's history.
44. Review the Pocahontas Legend.
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