General Info
This state is where Mt. St. Helens is located
What is Washington?
Over the last 500 years, this is the number of major eruptions Mt. St. Helens had.
What is 4 eruptions?
What is a common native flower of Mt. St. Helens
What is a lily, lotus, and or a daisy?
Mt. St. Helens is this type of volcano.
What is a Strato/composite volcano?
Alleyne Fitzherbert held this title that has a mountain named after it.
What is 1st Barton St Helens
This is Mount St. Helens height (ft.)
What is 8366 ft.?
Anyone in this mile radius was killed in 1980
What is 237 Mi.
These are some common native trees.
What is Maple and Aspen trees?
This causes Earthquakes on Mt. St. Helens
What is the movement of nearby tectonic plates?
TRUE or FALSE!! Today, is Mount St. Helens is no longer considered an active volcano.
FALSE
The mountain range that Mt. St. Helens is located
What is The Cascade Range
This natural disaster happened before the 1980 eruption.
What is an Earthquake?
This common native berry is eaten by bears.
What is the Ursi Berry?
This caused volcanisim .
What is subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate and/or earthquake-triggered landslide
This person was the British ambassador to Spain at the time Mount St. Helens was discovered.
Who was Alleyne Fitzherbert?
This amount in ft. that the mountain was shortened by.
What is 1,311 feet.
This amount of ash, rock, and debris (in tons) was removed from the 1980 eruption site.
What is 900,000 tons?
A canadensis is this type of plant.
What is a flower or shrub
Because subduction is what occurs at Mt. St. Helens, what type of plate is the mountain located on? (Convergent, Divergent, Transform)
What is a Convergent plate?
This was the year the first ascender climbed Mt. St. Helens
What is 1853?
This man was the first ascender of Mt. St. Helens
Who is Thomas J. Dryer
This amount of "big game" animals were lost during the 1980 eruption.
What is 7,000
This plant that is often used for making fossil fuels.
What is the fern?
The Juan de Fuca plate is off this coast of North America.
What is the Western Coast?
Salamanders were able to survive the harsh environment of the 1980s eruption, and avoid suffocation because of this survival skill.
What is hibernating in mud?