This is a mountain formed when lava cools and hardens onto Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
100
This is a town that grew rapidly due to settlers searching for gold.
What is a boomtown?
100
This is electricity produced by water.
What is hydroelectricity?
100
An object that orbits the Earth.
What is a satellite?
200
The capital of this state is Salem
What is Oregon?
200
This is a sudden shaking of the ground.
What is an earthquake?
200
During the California gold rush, ___________ were people who went West seeking gold.
Who are forty-niners?
200
This was the nations first national park.
What is Yellowstone?
200
A group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
300
This is the capital of Montana
What is Helena?
300
The government decided to set aside ____________ to protect the West's resources.
What is public land?
300
This is a group of wagons, each pulled by horses, mules, or oxen.
What is a wagon train?
300
This is a community of living and nonliving things in a natural area and its environment.
What is an ecosystem?
300
Ways of life passed down.
What is heritage?
400
This is the capital of California
What is Sacramento?
400
The _________________ is an imaginary line across the Rocky Mountains, directing the flow of rivers to either the east or west.
What is the Continental Divide?
400
This is one difference between the Shoshone and Paiute American Indians and the Pomo and Yokut American Indians.
Shoshone and Paiute lived in the Great Basin, were mostly nomads, and survived on small animals. Pomo and Yokut lived mostly in California, made flour from acorns, and hunted deer.
400
These are two ways people can use dams.
1) Dams can build reservoirs behind them, and the water can be used to provide to cities. 2) The water running through the dam can be used to create electricity.
400
Denver is nicknamed the _______________ because it is located 5,280 feet above sea level.
What is the Mile-High City?
500
The capital of this state is Carson City
What is Nevada?
500
The geography of the West is "extreme" for these reasons.
The West has the lowest point, Death Valley, and the highest point, Mt. McKinley. It also has the driest place, Death Valley, and the wettest place, Mt. Waialeale.
500
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad changed transportation and communication in this way.
A trip across the United States that used to take weeks or months by wagon now took only days. Mail could be delivered by train rather than on horseback.
500
These are 2 ways people of the west work to help protect the environment.
1) People have built fish ladders to help fish go over dams and lay eggs. 2) People have developed ways to clean up oil spills more efficiently.
500
This is one similarity and one difference between the types of jobs people have in the Rocky Mountain States and the types of jobs people have in the Pacific States.
SIMILARITY: Many people work in high-tech jobs in both areas. DIFFERENCE: The Pacific States have more agriculture (farming).