Q 01/05

Indiana Dunes National Park's western end, around Miller Woods, lies inside which steel city?

A) Hammond

B) East Chicago

C) Gary

D) Whiting

Answer · why

C) Gary

Gary holds the park's western tip: Miller Woods lies between the city's Miller Beach neighborhood and the Gary Works mill, so a national park trail st...

Q 02/05

The 2019 law making Indiana Dunes a national park rode inside what kind of bill?

A) Farm

B) Spending

C) Defense

D) Highway

Answer · why

B) Spending

A federal spending bill carried the rename: the stand-alone version passed the House in 2017 but never got a Senate vote, so sponsors folded it into t...

Q 03/05

Why did the Park Service oppose national park status for Indiana Dunes?

A) It fit better with lakeshores and seashores

B) Steel mills had polluted the shore

C) It drew too few visitors

D) Indiana kept the best dunes itself

Answer · why

A) It fit better with lakeshores and seashores

The Park Service said it fit better with lakeshores and seashores, since national parks are usually far larger; Congress overruled its own agency and ...

Q 04/05

Which steel company built its Burns Harbor mill on leveled dunes in the 1960s?

A) U.S. Steel

B) Bethlehem Steel

C) Inland Steel

D) Republic Steel

Answer · why

B) Bethlehem Steel

Bethlehem Steel bulldozed the dunes for its Burns Harbor mill and sold some 2.5 million cubic yards of the sand as fill, which Northwestern University...

Q 05/05

Henry Cowles's 1899 study of Indiana Dunes plant life helped launch which science in America?

A) Genetics

B) Geology

C) Ecology

D) Meteorology

Answer · why

C) Ecology

Ecology: Cowles learned Danish to read Eugen Warming's book on plant communities, then tested its ideas on Lake Michigan's shore.