This animal is a medium-sized bear native to North America. It is the continent's smallest and most widely distributed bear species.
What is a black bear?
100
This activity is when you walk for a long distance, especially across country or in the woods.
What is hiking?
100
This kind of vegetation is an evergreen coniferous tree that has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves.
What is a pine tree?
100
This mountain range stretches some 3,000 miles from British Columbia and Alberta in Canada through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and down to New Mexico in the U.S.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
This threat has been causing glaciers to melt and snowcaps to recede.
What is Global Warming?
200
This animal is the largest cat in North America.
What is a mountain lion (cougar, puma, panther, or catamount)?
200
The activity that involves the action of traveling over snow on skis, especially as a sport or recreation.
What is skiing?
200
This kind of vegetation is a fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, often with gills on the underside of the cap.
What is a mushroom?
200
This mountain range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.
What are the Cascades?
200
This threat to mountains involves the clear cutting of forests.
What is logging?
300
This animal is common hare of the western United States and Mexico that is known for it's large ears and can reach speeds up to 40 mph
What is a jack rabbit?
300
This activity is a sport or pastime of scaling rock faces, especially with the aid of ropes and special equipment.
What is rock climbing?
300
The kind of vegetation is a tree that bears acorns as fruit, and typically has lobed deciduous leaves.
What is an oak tree?
300
This mountain range lies in the western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Basin and Range Province.
What are the Sierra Nevadas?
300
This threat has involves the unregulated killing of game.
What is a over-harvesting?
400
This animal is a small, striped rodent.
What is a chipmunk?
400
This recreation activity involves the harvesting of game.
What is hunting?
400
This kind of vegetation is a tree species that contain some of the largest and tallest trees in the world. Also known as Sequoioideae.
What is a redwood tree?
400
This mountain range is the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.
What are the Pacific Cost Mountain Ranges?
400
This threat is a tree-killing insect that has devastated much of the forests and mountain ranges in the north.
What is a beetle ?
500
This animal is a large-hoofed mammal found only in North America and can be found on the steepest cliffs.
What is a mountain goat?
500
This activity involves traveling down fast moving rapids.
What is white water river rafting?
500
This kind of vegetation is a kind of pine tree with cones that remain closed for years until a forest fire kills the mature tree and drops the cones that reseeds the burnt ground.
What is a jack pine?
500
This mountain range is a system of mountains in eastern North America that includes the Smoky Mountains.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
This threat to landscape involves the extracting of minerals and coal from mountains that has destroyed over 500 mountains in the Appalachian Mountain Range.