The US Land Ordinance of 1785 Divided Much of the Country

question 60

Multiple Choice

The U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the country into a system of

• A) townships, towns, cities, municipalities, and major urban centers.
• B) ranges, distances, scales, projections, and map symbols.
• C) town-county boundaries.
• D) quarter sections, range sections, town land sections, and county sections.
• E) townships, ranges, sections, and quarter sections.

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Definitions:

Formal Operations

The stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development where adolescents and adults develop the ability to think about abstract concepts and logically test hypotheses.

Concrete Operations

A stage in cognitive development, according to Piaget, where children gain the ability to think logically about concrete events.

Preoperational Thought

A stage in cognitive development, according to Jean Piaget, where children aged 2-7 years are capable of using symbols and language but do not yet understand concrete logic.

Fluid Intelligence

Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.