Vocab
Physiographic features
Ice Age Floods
Rain Shadow Effect
Final Jeopardy Question
100
A box-shaped, steep-walled canyon
What is a coulee?
100
The waterway that runs through downtown Spokane
What is the Spokane River?
100
The cause of the Ice Age Floods
What is ice dam formed on river, formed lake, dam broke and water rushes across E WA?
100
This side of WA receives more rain
What is the West side?
100
Draw and label the Rainshadow Effect in WA state.
show diagram!
200
Volcanic mudflow
What is lahar?
200
Basalt rock makes up most of this flat table-like feature in Eastern WA
What is the Columbia Plateau?
200
Name an area of WA formed by the Ice Age Floods.
What is coulees, Dry Falls, or Channeled Scablands?
200
Name at least 3 important parts of a diagram of the Rainshadow Effect.
What is large body of water, mountains, wet land, dry land, wind, clouds, rain?
300
The study of the natural processes and history of the earth
What is geology?
300
Glacier Peak, Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Baker are all one of these.
What is a volcano in WA state?
300
The geologist who first proposed that the Channeled Scablands were created by catastrophic floods
Who is J Harlen Bretz?
300
Name 3 of the 4 mountain ranges that create rain shadows in Wa state.
What is Olympics, Cascades, Blue, Selkirk?
400
The average weather over a long period of time, usually 30 years
What is climate?
400
This WA area is world-renowned for wheat production
What is the Palouse Hills?
400
The river that was blocked by the ice dam
What is Clark Fork River?
400
The mountain range that receives the most rain in WA state.
What is Olympics?
500
Flat, table-like land
What is a plateau?
500
The waterway that connects the Pacific Ocean with the Puget Sound
What is the Strait of San Juan de Fuca?
500
The name of the continental glacier that blocked up the river and formed Glacial Lake Missoula
What is the Cordilleran ice sheet?
500
Due to the Rainshadow Effect WA has 3 of these type of forest.
What is temperate rainforests?
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