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Why do natural-hazard risks differ across California?

  • California has only one type of hazard.
  • Every region has identical geography.
  • Regions have different climates, terrain, vegetation, and settlement patterns.
  • Hazards occur only in Sacramento.
Correct answer(s):
  • Regions have different climates, terrain, vegetation, and settlement patterns.

Which description best fits California’s settlement pattern?

  • Strongly urban, with major coastal and inland-valley concentrations
  • Evenly spread across every square mile
  • Almost entirely rural and unurbanized
  • Mostly located on mountain summits
Correct answer(s):
  • Strongly urban, with major coastal and inland-valley concentrations

Which four forces can change California’s population?

  • Only rainfall and temperature
  • Births, deaths, interstate migration, and international migration
  • Only tourism and farming
  • Only elections and laws
Correct answer(s):
  • Births, deaths, interstate migration, and international migration

Which choice correctly explains Forced Native removal affected peoples with ties to Arkansas?

  • Eastern Arkansas is dominated by high alpine terrain.
  • Arkansas’s rivers have had almost no effect on settlement, farming, or transportation.
  • Forced Native removal affected peoples with ties to Arkansas during the nineteenth century
  • All parts of Arkansas have the same elevation and landform pattern.
Correct answer(s):
  • Forced Native removal affected peoples with ties to Arkansas during the nineteenth century

Which interpretation of Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville is correct?

  • Arkansas’s rivers have had almost no effect on settlement, farming, or transportation.
  • Arkansas is entirely flat and has no upland or mountain regions.
  • Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville form part of the fast-growing Northwest Arkansas corridor
  • Arkansas has a dry desert climate across the entire state.
Correct answer(s):
  • Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville form part of the fast-growing Northwest Arkansas corridor