Unit 7: Nevada History questions well answered already passed

Unit 7: Nevada History questions well
answered already passed

This desert lies in the basin and range province, in the northwest corner of the state. - ANS
✔Black Rock Desert



This mountain lake lies in the basin and range province, on the border between Nevada and
California. - ANS ✔Lake Tahoe



This geographic feature occurs when a river with interior drainage simply "peters out" into a
marshy area, even eventually just dryness. - ANS ✔sink



This is the major river of the Mojave Desert province in Nevada. It runs from Colorado and along
the borders of New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California. - ANS ✔Colorado River



The north-to-south orientation of the mountain ranges in the basin and range province made
east-to-west travel across Nevada difficult. - ANS ✔True



This early Native American group whose name means "ancient enemies" in the Navajo language
lived along the Virgin and Muddy rivers between ca. 300 B.C. and 1150 A.D. They built the "Lost
City"--visit the Lost City Museum in Overton this summer! - ANS ✔Anasazi



The Virgin and Moapa Rivers band of this tribe grew beans and corn along those rivers, but
merely to supplement what was still, basically, a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. - ANS ✔Southern
Paiute