Q 01/05

Much of the northern Everglades was drained in the 20th century to grow which crop?

A) Cotton

B) Sugarcane

C) Tobacco

D) Peanuts

Answer · why

B) Sugarcane

Sugarcane now dominates the drained farmland at the wetland's northern end, one reason the national park protects only about a fifth of the original E...

Q 02/05

The Everglades are fed by a very slow river flowing out of which body of water?

A) Lake George

B) Lake Okeechobee

C) Lake Kissimmee

D) Lake Apopka

Answer · why

B) Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee once spilled over its southern rim every wet season; after deadly hurricane floods in 1926 and 1928 it was ringed with levees, so wate...

Q 03/05

Whose 1947 book gave the Everglades the nickname 'River of Grass'?

A) Rachel Louise Carson

B) Ernest Francis Coe

C) Marjory Stoneman Douglas

D) John Pennekamp

Answer · why

C) Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Marjory Stoneman Douglas's book recast what developers had called a worthless swamp as a slow, living river, and it shifted public opinion toward prot...

Q 04/05

Everglades was the first US national park created to protect what?

A) A drinking-water supply

B) An endangered species

C) A Native homeland

D) A fragile ecosystem

Answer · why

D) A fragile ecosystem

A fragile ecosystem, not scenery, was the point: earlier parks guarded peaks, geysers and canyons, while this one was set aside for the life in a flat...

Q 05/05

Which president dedicated Everglades National Park soon after World War II?

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Harry Truman

C) Dwight Eisenhower

D) Herbert Hoover

Answer · why

B) Harry Truman

Harry Truman dedicated the park in 1947, 13 years after Congress authorised it: supporters needed that long to acquire the land and secure the funding...