5 Themes of Geography
Native Americans
Mountain Men, Explorers, & Pioneers
Conflict
Road to Statehood/Modern Utah
100

The 5 Themes of Geography (Mr. HELP)

What is Movement, Human Environment Interaction, Location, and Place?

100

The main weapon used by the Archaic Indians.

What is an atlatl?

100

The animal targeted by fur trappers operating out of the Rocky Mountains.

What are beavers?

100

The war in Utah that started because the Mormon Settlers would not allow the slave trade to continue.

What is the Walker War?

100
A reason why Utah struggled to achieve Statehood. 

What is: polygamy, separation of church and state, lack of political parties, using bishops as local judges, lack of economic diversity (only in LDS circles), and frequent immigration increased Church power in the territory.

200
A grid system used to specify a place on the Earth's surface. 

What is an Latitude and Longitude?

200

The Historic Native American Tribe that: irrigated and farmed, raised sheep and goats, and made Hogans.

Who are the Navajo?

200

The first TWO non-Indians to discover the Great Basin.

Who are Father Dominguez and Father Escalante?

200

A war in Utah that was fought over land disputes with members from Ute, Southern Paiute, Apache, and Navajo tribes. 

What is the Black Hawk War? 

200

The battle during WWII in which 6 Navajo Code Talkers sent and received over 800 messages without error during the first 48 hours.

What is battle of Iwo Jima?

300

The 3 ways humans interact with the environment.

What is adapt, modify, and depend?

300

The Prehistoric Native American Tribe that: lived in permanent villages and large cities, irrigated and farmed the desert, grew cotton, corn, squash, and beans, raised Turkeys, used bows and arrows to hunt large mammals, and lived in pit houses and cave dwellings.

Who are the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan)?

300

A pattern with Utah Settlements (there are multiple options). 

What are: street grid patterns, wide streets, irrigation ditches, city blocks, town squares, or farmlands around city center.

300

A conflict that involved the Federal Government and Northwestern Shoshone that resulted in the death of over 350 Shoshone.

What is Bear River Massacre?

300

The years that Utah's Japanese Internment Camp operated. 

When is 1942-1945?
400

The 3 different landform regions in Utah.

What is Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, and Great Basin regions?

400

The TWO Native American Tribes that used horses.

Who are the Ute and Shoshone?

400

The pioneer group that was met with tragedy due to spending too much time clearing out a Emigration Canyon. 

What is the Donner-Reed Party?

400

A conflict that involved Mormon Settlers and a group of Pioneers traveling through Utah on their way to California. The conflict ended in ~130 deaths.

What is Mountain Meadows Massacre?

400

A weapon invented in Utah by Joseph Moses that played a large role in World War I by increasing the stalemate between countries.

What is the Browning Automatic Rifle (Machine Gun)?

500

The theme of geography that refers to the personality of an area. (I.e. What it is like there) 

What is place?

500

The Historic Native American tribe that found uses for over 100 different types of desert plants.

Who are the Goshute? 

500

Reasons why the LDS people did not get along well with their neighbors (list at least 2). 

What is: claiming only true church, outnumbering neighbors, changing local politics, powerful church leaders, anti-slavery (Missouri), and practiced polygamy? 

500

The war in Utah between the Federal Government and Utah settlers.

What is the Utah War? 

500

An event during 1935 that came from dry conditions and weak soil composition. This event led to the migration of Utah farmers leaving their homes in search of better environments.

What is the Utah Dust Bowls?