A Land of Mountains
The largest mountain system in North America
What are the Rocky Mountains
A cold flat area where trees cannot grow.
What is a tundra?
Washington is famous for what crop?
What is apples?
What type of fish did the Tlingit fish.
What is salmon?
In the 1840s this was discovered in California
What is gold?
The oldest National Park in the world
What is Yellowstone?
These two states are mainly warm & sunny
What are Hawaii & California
Western product that makes furniture & paper
What is timber?
This is the most prized Tlingit possession.
What is the chilkat blanket
A town that grew very quickly as a result of finding silver or gold
What is a boom town?
Yellowstone is popular for this.
What are geysers?
This area receives less than 2 inches of rain each year.
What is Death Valley?
Planting new trees to replace trees that have been cut down.
What is reforest?
This is a special celebration for weddings, births, or deaths
What is a potlach?
What is there was little policing because the towns grew so quickly.
You can see many different kinds of what in Yellowstone?
What are wildlife?
This area gets very little rain & is usually hot
What is a desert?
Seth Lewelling hired a Chinese farmer named Bing. Together they developed what type of fruit?
What is the Bing Cherry?
Potlaches are known for...
What are speeches, dancing, feasting, & gift-giving?
The 2 states that were the last to be admitted to the United States
What are Alaska & Hawaii
The Rocky Mountains are home to what?
What is many types of animals, and different trees & flowers.
The highest peak in North America
What is Mt. McKinnley or Denali
Name 3 agricultural products of the West.
What are apples, broccoli, pineapple, strawberries, livestock, lettuce, potatoes
A tall carved post with the images of people & animals
What is a totem pole?
This is how a boom town became a ghost town
What is 1. a town sprang up where gold or silver was discovered
2. many people moved there (boom town)
3. Miners mined all the minerals
4. People moved out of the towns (ghost towns)