Rocky Mountains
Choose an answer from the three choices or True or False
offered after each question and then check your answers
at the end of the quiz.
 1) The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles
from northernmost British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the
United States.
2) What is the range's highest peak is at 14,440 feet
above sea level?
- Colorado's Mount Elbert
- Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks
- Wyoming's Cheney Peak
3) What peak in British Columbia, at 12,972 ft is the
highest peak in the Canadian Rockies.
- Mount Isaac
- Clarke Peak
- Mount Robson
4) What is NOT a mountain range in the
Rocky Mountains?
- Wind River Range
- Continental Ranges
- Sierra Madre
5) The younger ranges of the Rocky Mountains uplifted
during the late Cretaceous period (100 million-65 million years ago),
although some portions of the southern mountains date from uplifts
during the Precambrian (3,980 million-600 million years ago).
6) The little ice age was a period of glacial advance
that lasted a few centuries from about 1050 to 1360.
7) The rivers that flow from the Rocky Mountains
eventually drain into three of the world's Oceans. What is NOT one of
the oceans?
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Antarctica Ocean
8) The Continental Divide is located in the Rocky
Mountains. Water flowing Eastward flows into which ocean?
- Atlantic Ocean
- Caribbean Sea
- Pacific Ocean
9) What group of people are believed to be the first
inhabitants of the Rocky Mountain region after the Ice Age?
- Cheyenne
- Paleo-Indians
- Apaches
10) The Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de
Coronado — with a group of soldiers, missionaries, and African slaves
— marched into the Rocky Mountain region from the south. What was the
year?
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