WA Geography
Washington, Oregon, and Idaho make up this region of the United States
What is the Pacific NorthWest?
This volcano famously erupted in 1980
What is Mount St. Helens?
This fish was a regular source of food for both plateau and coastal Washington tribes
What is Salmon
This Pacific Northwest animal was sought for its fur by European traders
What is the Beaver or Sea Otter
This city is the capital of Washington state
What is Olympia?
This river is the longest river in Washington
What is the Columbia River?
This Ice Age animal is the Washington State Fossil
A) Pacific Gray Whale B) Columbian Mammoth
What is the Columbian Mammoth?
This disease from Europeans killed many Native Americans
What is smallpox, flu, or malaria?
The name of the water pathway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean that European explorers wanted to find
What is the Northwest Passage
This bird plays a trickster role in many Native American stories
Who is Raven?
This country is directly north of Washington State
What is Canada
This mountain range separates Eastern and Western Washington?
What are the Cascade Mountains?
Name two Pacific Northwest Native Tribes that we researched
What are Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, Makah, Cowlitz, Duwamish, Spokane, or Yakama
This young women helped Lewis and Clark trek across the American West
Who is Sacagewea?
This Pacific Salmon Species is the largest
A) Coho B) Chinook
What is the Chinook Salmon
The name of the region that SeaTac is located within
What is the Puget Sound Lowlands?
This event flattened and smoothened the Columbia Plateau
A) Floods B) Volcanic Eruptions
What are floods?
The city of Seattle is named after this man
Who is Chief Sealth or Si'ahl?
This European nation was the first to arrive in the Pacific Northwest
What is Spain
Orcas, San Juan, and Lopez make up this island chain in Puget Sound
What are the San Juan Islands?
This region is also called the Rocky Mountain Region
The Okanogan Highlands
The name for the most common rocks found throughout western Washington
A) Basalt B) Rocky
What is basalt?
The most common indigenous language of the Puget Sound Native American tribes
What is Lushootseed (dxʷləšucid)?
This man named Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainer
Who is George Vancouver?
Chinook Middle School got its name from
A) Chinook Tribe B) Chinook Salmon
Who are the Chinook Tribe?