Landforms
Regions
Territory Building
Vocabulary
Mt. St. Helens
100
a body of land completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
100
The region Bellingham is in
What Puget Sound Lowlands?
100
WA territory was made out of this territory
What is the Oregon territory?
100
The imaginary line that separates countries, states, counties, etc
What is boundary?
100
What year did Mt. St. Helen erupt?
What is 1980.
200
Lake Whatcom and Lake Samish
What are two lakes in Bellingham?
200
the region in the far northeastern corner
What is Rocky Mountain Region or Okanogan Plateau?
200
This law gave males over 18 years of age to claim 320 acres of land for free
What is the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850?
200
The imaginary line of longitude that measures 0 degrees
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
Name other mountains in the Cascade Range that are currently dormant.
What are Mt. Baker, Glacier Peak Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams, and Mt. St. Helens.
300
piece of land that sticks out in to the water and that has water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
300
Where would apples, cherries, grapes, corn and alfalfa grow best?
What is the Columbia Plateau region?
300
Who was Isaac Stevens?
Who is the first governor in WA state?
300
These are periods or chunks of time
What is an era?
300
How many people did not survive the Mt. St. Helens blast?
What is 57 people.
400
high, wide flat land that covers many miles
What is a Plateau?
400
Olympic National Park is located in what region?
What is the Coastal Plain region?
400
This is the year WA territory was created
What is 1853?
400
What are East Coast and West Coast; Eastern WA and Western WA examples of?
What are examples of region?
400
What is one lesson that scientists learned from Mt. St. Helen's eruption?
What are discovering new ways to track volcanoes, predict eruptions, and more.
500
Mt. Baker, Mt. Ranier and Mt. St. Helens
What are three mountains (volcanoes) in the Cascade Range?
500
In which region would you go to ski and climb mountains?
What is the Cascade Mountain Range?
500
What do the numbers 4,000 and 17,000 represent during territory building in WA state?
What are the numbers of American residents and American Indians in WA territory in 1853?
500
Areas of land that are clumped and belong to the United States, but are not states?
What are territories
500
What are lahars?
What are huge mud flows containing boulders and uprooted trees.
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