climate
Gold Rush
South Pass
Transcontinentail
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what is the city with record lowest temp.?
Prospect Creek, Alaska.
100
What is the main part of why the Gold Rush started?
The reason the Gold Rush started was in 1848 some workers were building a sawmill near Sacramento, California, and the workers found gold nuggets. So when the news spread about 80,000 settlers rushed to the West hoping to become rich.
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What is the South Pass?
Opening between the mountains in the Rocky Mountain range.
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City where the eastward tracks of the transcontinental began.
Sacramento, California
100
How is a volcano formed?
Mountain formed when erupted lava cools and hardens onto Earth's surface.
200
What is the record highest temp.?
Death Valley,California
200
What were the gold seekers called, and how did they start part of the Gold Rush?
The early gold seekers are called forty-niners, and they started it because they were the people who rushed for the gold in the West.
200
What is the Dalles?
Major trading center.
200
City where the westward tracks of the transcontinental began.
Omaha, Nebraska
200
Whats a telegraph?
A machine that uses electricity to send messages over wires.
300
What is the city with the most rain per year?
Mt. Waialeale,Hawaii?
300
What are Boomtowns?
Boomtowns are areas that grew quickly due to gold seekers.
300
How did the South Pass start having settlers come to the West?
Because it was a lot easier for people to get past the Rocky Mountains.
300
City where the last spike of the transcontinental railroad was driven.
Promontory, Utah
300
Whats a timberline?
An imaginary line on slopes that separates where trees grow from where it is too cold for trees to grow.
400
What is an earthquake?
A sudden shaking in the ground.
400
Whats the Pony Express?
Early horseback mail service.
400
State all the facts about the South Pass.
It was low enough for covered wagons to go through. It was the year 1843. ect.
400
Whats the Continental Divide?
Imaginary line that runs north and south along the peaks of the Rocky Mountains and determines the direction that the rivers flow.
400
Whats a crater?
Bowl shaped area at the top of a volcano.
500
What is a volcanic eruption?
When the magma in a volcano builds up, and lava comes exploding out.
500
Whats the wagon train?
Group of wagons.
500
What is a barrier?
Something that blocks the way.
500
What is the transcontinental Railroad?
A railroad that could take you across the region.
500
What is a fault?
Crack in Earth's outer layer.
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