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Rivers and Waterways

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Which conclusion about Tourism is supported?

  • Transportation and logistics have little connection to Arkansas’s location or major employers.
  • Tourism can diversify local economies in mountain, river, and historic areas
  • Agricultural production creates no economic activity outside farms.
  • Current-dollar GDP automatically removes the effect of changing prices.
Correct answer(s):
  • Tourism can diversify local economies in mountain, river, and historic areas

What is accurate about River floodplains?

  • Arkansas has a dry desert climate across the entire state.
  • Arkansas’s rivers have had almost no effect on settlement, farming, or transportation.
  • Eastern Arkansas is dominated by high alpine terrain.
  • River floodplains can provide fertile soils while also creating flood hazards
Correct answer(s):
  • River floodplains can provide fertile soils while also creating flood hazards

Which choice correctly explains Arkansas River Valley?

  • The Arkansas River Valley has long supported settlement and transportation through the center of the state
  • Eastern Arkansas is dominated by high alpine terrain.
  • Arkansas is entirely flat and has no upland or mountain regions.
  • Arkansas has a dry desert climate across the entire state.
Correct answer(s):
  • The Arkansas River Valley has long supported settlement and transportation through the center of the state

How should Arkansas Post’s position near the lower Arkansas River gave be understood?

  • Arkansas became a state only after the Civil War ended.
  • Arkansas Post’s position near the lower Arkansas River gave it value as a settlement and trading point
  • The Little Rock school crisis had no connection to federal authority.
  • Arkansas immediately voted to leave the Union before the Civil War’s opening military crisis.
Correct answer(s):
  • Arkansas Post's position near the lower Arkansas River gave it value as a settlement and trading point