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Which policy areas can strengthen resilience in rural Colorado?

  • Eliminating all infrastructure
  • Blocking all communications
  • Ending regional services
  • Diversification, broadband, healthcare, transport, education, and water security
Correct answer(s):
  • Diversification, broadband, healthcare, transport, education, and water security

What does Colorado’s state formation show about political boundaries?

  • Surveyed borders can be imposed across older cultural territories, watersheds, and trade networks
  • States form without earlier populations
  • Watersheds always match state lines
  • Political boundaries always follow natural regions perfectly
Correct answer(s):
  • Surveyed borders can be imposed across older cultural territories, watersheds, and trade networks

Why does federal land management matter greatly in Colorado?

  • Large areas of forests, mountains, parks, and other lands are federally managed
  • Only city parks are public
  • The federal government owns every home
  • Colorado has no public lands
Correct answer(s):
  • Large areas of forests, mountains, parks, and other lands are federally managed

Which issue is an example of a conservation-development tradeoff in Colorado?

  • Selecting a basketball team
  • Changing postal abbreviations
  • Choosing a state flower
  • Balancing housing, recreation, extraction, roads, water projects, and habitat protection
Correct answer(s):
  • Balancing housing, recreation, extraction, roads, water projects, and habitat protection

Why is physical water supply alone insufficient to explain Colorado water use?

  • Legal rights, infrastructure, interstate obligations, and institutions also determine allocation
  • Reservoirs have no role
  • Water use is decided only by rainfall
  • Law never affects water
Correct answer(s):
  • Legal rights, infrastructure, interstate obligations, and institutions also determine allocation

Which water-rights doctrine is historically associated with Colorado and much of the arid West?

  • Prior appropriation
  • Riparian rights only
  • Open-sea doctrine
  • Maritime salvage law
Correct answer(s):
  • Prior appropriation

Why is Colorado water governance necessarily interstate?

  • State borders follow oceans
  • Only federal land uses water
  • No rivers leave Colorado
  • The state is upstream in several major river basins shared with other states
Correct answer(s):
  • The state is upstream in several major river basins shared with other states

What can rapid Front Range population growth encourage in water management?

  • Elimination of all reservoirs
  • End of municipal water systems
  • Dependence on ocean desalination only
  • Conservation, reuse, storage, and transfers among users or basins
Correct answer(s):
  • Conservation, reuse, storage, and transfers among users or basins

What administrative problem did the creation of Colorado Territory address?

  • All counties belonged to one city
  • Denver was outside North America
  • Colorado had no land
  • The future state area had been divided among several territorial jurisdictions
Correct answer(s):
  • The future state area had been divided among several territorial jurisdictions

Why do urban and rural Colorado often have different public-service needs?

  • All communities are identical
  • Urban areas have no roads
  • Population density, distance, economies, and infrastructure differ
  • Rural counties have no residents
Correct answer(s):
  • Population density, distance, economies, and infrastructure differ

Why are Colorado’s 64 counties important to political geography?

  • They control federal foreign policy
  • They provide local government across very different regions
  • They all have identical populations
  • They replace the state government
Correct answer(s):
  • They provide local government across very different regions

What is unusual about Denver’s local government structure?

  • It is a consolidated city and county
  • It has no local government
  • It belongs to two states
  • It is governed by Wyoming
Correct answer(s):
  • It is a consolidated city and county

What did the creation of Colorado Territory do politically?

  • Combined lands previously divided among other territories
  • Made Colorado part of Canada
  • Created the first U.S. coastline
  • Ended all county governments
Correct answer(s):
  • Combined lands previously divided among other territories

What is Colorado’s state lawmaking body called?

  • Colorado Supreme Council
  • Denver Parliament
  • Western Congress
  • Colorado General Assembly
Correct answer(s):
  • Colorado General Assembly

Which two chambers make up the Colorado General Assembly?

  • Assembly and Council of Governors
  • House of Representatives and Senate
  • House of Commons and Lords
  • Supreme Court and Cabinet
Correct answer(s):
  • House of Representatives and Senate

What is the highest court in Colorado’s state judicial system?

  • U.S. Senate
  • Colorado General Assembly
  • Denver District Council
  • Colorado Supreme Court
Correct answer(s):
  • Colorado Supreme Court