Washington Regions
Climate
Map Skills
Water Ways
Landforms
100
This region has the most people living in it.
What is Puget Sound Lowlands?
100
The usual weather of a place over time.
What is climate?
100
This is used on a map to show the 4 main directions.
What is a compass (compass rose)?
100
This is the longest river in Washington.
What is the Columbia?
100
This is a way to supply water to crops using pipes or ditches.
What is irrigation?
200
This region touches the Pacific Ocean and has the word coast as part of its name.
What is the Coast Range?
200
Which side of the Cascades gets the most rain?
What is the west?
200
This is the capital of Washington state.
What is Olympia?
200
This is the large body of water that the cities of Seattle and Tacoma are connected to.
What is the Puget Sound.
200
Washington's mountains were formed from tectonic plate movement, and by these.
What are volcanoes?
300
This region divides our state into the western and eastern parts.
What is the Cascade Mountains
300
This helps keep Washington warmer than any other state this far north?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
This fraction of Washington's lands are used for conservation.
What is about 1/4?
300
This is about how many lakes are in Washington state?
What is 10,000?
300
This is the term for a huge circle of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire.
400
This region has plateau as part of its name.
What is the Columbia Plateau.
400
The word for any water falling from the sky (rain, sleet, snow, hail).
What is precipitation?
400
The Pacific Northwest includes, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, and ______________.
What is parts of Canada?
400
A stream river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary.
400
This is how high (in feet) Mt. Rainier is.
What is 14,410 feet.
500
The Channeled Scablands region is known for its dry steam beds, flat-top mountains, and ________________. (deep canyons with steep sides)
What is a coulee?
500
This mountain on the Cascade range gets the most snow?
What is Mt. Baker?
500
This is used to show how far a distance on a map is compared to the real distance
What is a map scale?
500
The Strait just north of the Olympic Penninsula.
What is the Strait of Juan De Fuca?
500
The newspaper called the region the Northeastern highlands, the book called them this (fun to say) ________________ highlands.
What is Okanogan?
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