Earthquakes and Mountains
Mt. St. Helens
Megaflood
Archaeology
Potpourri
100
Forces that cause earthquakes.
What is tectonic?
100
Date Mt. St. Helens erupted.
What is May 18, 1980?
100
When the megaflood occurred.
What is 15,000 years ago?
100
Primary tool of archaeologists.
What is a trowel?
100
Side of Mt. St. Helens that collapsed during its eruption.
What is the north side?
200
Two mountain ranges found in Washington.
What are Olympics and Cascades?
200
The number of people who died from the eruption. (Use number from textbook).
What is 57?
200
A rock or boulder that differs from the surrounding rock and is believed to have been brought from a distance by glacial action.
What is an erratic?
200
Type of camera used by some archaeologists to pinpoint the locations of artifacts.
What is a GPS camera?
200
Inactive but capable of becoming active.
What is dormant?
300
Older mountains are more _______ while younger mountains are more ______.
What is rounded; jagged?
300
Owned an inn on Mt. St. Helens and wouldn't leave when he was warned there would be an eruption. Died from the eruption along with his 16 cats.
Who is Harry R. Truman?
300
Caused potholes in the scablands.
What are bubble tornadoes?
300
Any object that was made, modified, used, or moved by past human behavior.
What is an artifact?
300
Washington city that used to be on the seashore.
What is Spokane?
400
Last time Seattle hit by major earthquake.
What is 2001?
400
Lake that filled with debris and trees after the eruption.
What is Spirit Lake?
400
Caused water to build up in Lake Missoula before breaking and starting the megaflood.
What is ice wall/dam?
400
Used to sift the soil that comes from each unit in order to search for and better spot artifacts.
What is a screen/sieve/sifter?
400
Formed by the combination of prehistoric plants, heat, and pressure over millions of years.
What is coal?
500
Washington's 5 sleeping giants.
What are Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Baker, Mt. Adams, and Glacier Peak?
500
Huge mudflows containing boulders and uprooted trees.
What are lahars?
500
Geologist who came up with the idea of the megaflood.
Who is J. Harlen Bretz?
500
Where archaeologists record their data.
What is a field journal?
500
How you are going to do on the quiz tomorrow.
What is awesome?!
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