States and Capitals
This is the capital of Alaska.
What is Juneau?
This imaginary line in the Rocky Mountains separates the country. Every river east of it drains to the Atlantic and every river west of it drains to the Pacific.
What is the continental divide?
Most Volcanoes and earthquakes are found in states that border this.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Settlers used to travel in large groups of wagons called this as they traveled west.
What are wagon trains?
A town that grew up very quickly is called this.
What is a boomtown?
This is the capital of Nevada.
WHat is Carson City?
This is the highest point in the US
What is Mt. McKinley in Alaska.
These are the 3 states that have volcanoes.
What are Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon?
This was a method of transportation that crossed the North American continent, linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
A machine that uses electricity to send messages over wires was this.
What is a telegraph?
This is the capital of Oregon.
What is Salem?
This is where you will find the country's rainiest place.
What is Hawaii?
An opening in the earth's surface out of which hot gases, ash and lava may pour is called this.
What is a volcano?
A person who went to California in 1849 in search of gold was called this.
What is a forty-niner?
This is the country who sold the area of Alaska to the United States.
This is the capital of Wyoming.
What is Cheyenne?
This is the lowest point in the US.
What is Death Valley?
An opening in the earth's surface that is created when a volcano erupts and begins to throw out lava.
Native Americans used to travel along these and created networks in them for trade.
What are rivers?
This was the message delivery system that helped people communicate in the past.
What was the Pony Express?
This is the capital of Montana.
What is Helena?
This is the line on a mountain above which it is too cold for trees to grow.
What is the timberline?
Small movements in these can cause earthquakes.
What are faults?
These two explorers left St. Louis and traveled west to discover the new territory. They reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
Bonus: who was their helper?
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Bonus: Who was Sacagewa?
The area where most settlers ended up settling was known as this.