These were once off shore mountains and are the youngest mountains in WA state?
What are the Olympic Mountains?
100
These are known as the sleeping giants because they are
?
What is dormant?
100
Washingtons official fossil?
What is the Wooly Mamoth?
100
The three mountain ranges in Washington state?
What is The Rocky Mountains, the Cascade Mountains and the Olympic Mountains?
200
a Fossil fuel made of prehistoric plans combined with pressure and hear over years that is sometimes used to power generators that produce electricity?
What is coal?
200
Dry streambeds, cataracts, largest prehistoric waterfall are all characteristics of ?
What is Grand Coulee?
200
This eruption was the equivalant to 21,000 atomic bombs?
What is the eruption of Mt. St. Helens?
200
Many of the fossil remains found in the North Cascades resemble those also found in?
What is South East Asia?
200
It is the most dangerous Volcano in Wa. state because of its location to major cities, and if it erupts will spew lava, lahars, mud flows and glacial ice?
What is Mt. Rainier?
300
About 15,000 years ago this type of rainfall swelled the Columbia River to ten times its flow?
what is a deluge?
300
The oldest mountains int the West are?
What is the Rocky Mountains?
300
Huge mud flows that filled the rivers after a volcanic explosion in 1980?
What is Lahars?
300
Huge boulders that were carried by glaciers?
What is erratics?
300
Is igneous rock formed by hardened lava.
What is Basalt?
400
Causes the Earth to fold and Crack?
What is tectonic Forces?
400
Washington's Mountain ranges were created by these two things?
What is tectonic forces and volcanic activity?
400
What is Currently WAshington's most threatening Volcano
What is Mt. Rainier?
400
The great floods are also known as the?
What is the Bretz floods?
400
Huge Mud flows containing boulders and uprooted trees?
What is Lahars?
500
Hardened lava forms this type of rock ?
What is Igneous?
500
A ring of Volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean including the Phillipines, Japan, Alaska, North and South America?
What is the Ring of fire?
500
The Rich soil of the Palouse that is a mixture of Volcanic ash and dust?
What is Loess?
500
The Rocky mountains are more rounded because?
What is older mountains (exposed to wind and erosion)?