Rocky Mountains
Snowy Peaks
Mining
100
Copper
What is the most valuable metal found in the Rocky Mountains?
100
Has a desert like climate that is the driest areas in the region?
What is San Luis Valley?
100
The process of using high temperatures to separate pure metal from rock.
What is smelting?
200
The "Great Divide". It separates rivers that flow East from rivers that flow West.
What is the Continental Divide?
200
Rain, snow, fleet or hail that fans to the Earth.
What is precipitation?
200
This mine is 2 1/2 miles wide and nearly a mile deep. It is about the size of 120 football fields.
What is Bingham Canyon Mine?
300
Its highest peak is Grand Teton. Visitors can also see Elk, Buffalo, and antelope living there.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
300
The unusual shape of these trees help them to survive the lower temperatures and harsh winds.
What are krummholz trees?
300
Waste materials that are skimmed off the top of liquid metal.
What is slag?
400
Contains 10,000 hot springs and includes parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
400
These plants (not trees) require little warmth to survive, and can live in very cold places
What are lichen?
400
Lumber, natural gas, fresh, water, copper.
What are natural resources in the Rocky Mountains.
500
A natural ho source of steam and water that is released in a jet.
What is a geyser?
500
This line in the Rocky Mountains is about 11,500 feet above sea level.
What is the Timberline?
500
What are some products used from Rocky Mountain copper?
What are electrical wires, computers, pots and pans, and teapots.
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