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Why is Colorado tourism not limited to winter?

  • The state has no summer visitors
  • Only snow sports are legal
  • Warm-season activities include hiking, camping, rafting, cycling, and sightseeing
  • All parks close in summer
Correct answer(s):
  • Warm-season activities include hiking, camping, rafting, cycling, and sightseeing

What helps support Colorado’s tourism economy?

  • Tropical rainforests only
  • Large seaports only
  • Ocean beaches and coral reefs
  • Mountains, national parks, ski resorts, historic towns, and outdoor recreation
Correct answer(s):
  • Mountains, national parks, ski resorts, historic towns, and outdoor recreation

How do federal laboratories support Colorado’s economy?

  • They manage every city government
  • They replace all private businesses
  • They grow all of Colorado’s crops
  • They conduct research and support skilled scientific and technical work
Correct answer(s):
  • They conduct research and support skilled scientific and technical work

What types of businesses are common in Colorado’s Front Range technology corridor?

  • Software, telecommunications, data services, and research firms
  • Commercial fishing fleets
  • Tropical sugar plantations
  • Ocean freight terminals
Correct answer(s):
  • Software, telecommunications, data services, and research firms

Where is much of Colorado’s space-related activity concentrated?

  • Only the Eastern Seaboard
  • Only Four Corners
  • Colorado Springs and the Front Range
  • Only the San Luis Valley
Correct answer(s):
  • Colorado Springs and the Front Range

What supports Colorado’s aerospace industry?

  • Only farms
  • Private companies, military installations, federal laboratories, and research institutions
  • Only county courthouses
  • Only ski resorts
Correct answer(s):
  • Private companies, military installations, federal laboratories, and research institutions

Which sector is recognized as important in Colorado’s modern economy?

  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Commercial whaling
  • Deep-sea pearl diving
  • Tropical plantation agriculture
Correct answer(s):
  • Advanced manufacturing

What does Pueblo’s economy show about Colorado’s industrial history?

  • Steel ended all other local industries
  • Colorado has never had manufacturing
  • Traditional steel and manufacturing can coexist with newer services and agriculture
  • Pueblo is mainly a seaport
Correct answer(s):
  • Traditional steel and manufacturing can coexist with newer services and agriculture

Which mix best describes Grand Junction’s regional economy?

  • Healthcare, education, services, agriculture, energy, and tourism
  • Only banking
  • Only automobile manufacturing
  • Ocean shipping and shipbuilding
Correct answer(s):
  • Healthcare, education, services, agriculture, energy, and tourism

Which combination best describes Fort Collins’ economy?

  • Only tourism and no other industries
  • Fishing, shipbuilding, and tropical forestry
  • Only government administration
  • Higher education, technology, bioscience, manufacturing, agriculture, and food production
Correct answer(s):
  • Higher education, technology, bioscience, manufacturing, agriculture, and food production

What helps make Colorado Springs a defense and aerospace center?

  • Great Lakes shipping
  • Military and space-related institutions
  • Tropical plantations
  • Large ocean naval ports
Correct answer(s):
  • Military and space-related institutions

Why does Boulder have a strong research economy?

  • It depends entirely on cotton farming
  • It is Colorado’s largest seaport
  • It combines a research university, federal laboratories, startups, and technology firms
  • It has the state’s biggest oil refinery only
Correct answer(s):
  • It combines a research university, federal laboratories, startups, and technology firms

Which industries are major parts of Denver’s economy?

  • Only coal mining
  • Government, finance, professional services, healthcare, technology, and transportation
  • Tropical rubber and coffee farming
  • Commercial whaling and deep-sea fishing
Correct answer(s):
  • Government, finance, professional services, healthcare, technology, and transportation

Why does Colorado’s economy differ from one region to another?

  • Different regions have different resources, cities, terrain, and industries
  • Every region has exactly the same landscape
  • State law requires every county to use one industry
  • Economic activity occurs only in Denver
Correct answer(s):
  • Different regions have different resources, cities, terrain, and industries

Which description best fits Colorado’s modern economy?

  • It is diversified across services, technology, aerospace, healthcare, tourism, energy, agriculture, and manufacturing
  • It is based only on fishing
  • It has no major service industries
  • It depends almost entirely on one crop
Correct answer(s):
  • It is diversified across services, technology, aerospace, healthcare, tourism, energy, agriculture, and manufacturing

What kind of institution is the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs?

  • A county courthouse
  • A federal military service academy
  • A state agricultural agency
  • A private ski school
Correct answer(s):
  • A federal military service academy

Which Colorado school specializes in engineering, earth sciences, energy, and minerals?

  • Colorado College of Oceanography
  • Western Atlantic Maritime Academy
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • Denver School of Tropical Agriculture
Correct answer(s):
  • Colorado School of Mines

Which university in Fort Collins is known for agriculture, veterinary medicine, engineering, and natural resources?

  • Yale University
  • Rice University
  • Colorado State University
  • Duke University
Correct answer(s):
  • Colorado State University

Which institution is a major public research university in Boulder?

  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Tulane University
  • Harvard University
  • University of Miami
Correct answer(s):
  • University of Colorado Boulder