Colorado Water
What is Colorado's largest and most important river?
The Colorado River
What word describes a height to which something is raised?
Elevation
What region of the United States contains the state of Colorado?
Animals with backbones are known as what?
Vertebrates
True or false: Denver is located in the Northeast part of Colorado
True
To what does Rio Grande translate in English?
Big River
While Wooly Mammoths are extinct, White Rhinos are only _______.
Endangered
Another word for a flat topped hill found in western Colorado is ____________.
Mesa
What is Colorado's state reptile?
The Western Painted Turtle
Hot springs in Colorado are __________ because they are heated by the earth.
Geothermal
True or False: There is a prominent river in Colorado called the Arkansas River
True
King snakes are not considered to be particularly dangerous mostly because they are not _________.
Venomous
The city of Denver can be found in this region of Colorado
The Great Plains region
True or false: mammals lay eggs
False
To which ocean do rivers EAST of the Continental Divide flow?
The Atlantic Ocean
True or False: The Rio Grande runs through Oklahoma
False
The Gunnison River is a _________ of the Colorado River.
Tributary
In what region of Colorado can the Continental Divide be found?
The Rocky Mountain region
Which unusual reptile gives birth to live babies rather than laying eggs?
The rattlesnake
How many years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence did Colorado become a state?
100 years
Into which body of water does the Colorado River empty?
The Gulf of California
What is a word for a pond or lake used for storing water?
What is used to form these ponds or lakes?
Reservoir
Dam
What are the EXACT names of the three regions of Colorado
Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau
While __________, like tiger salamanders, are cold-blooded vertebrates, __________, like bark scorpions are cold-blooded invertebrates.
Amphibians
Arthropods
Colorado is one of the mountain states of this country because the Rocky Mountains run through it. Name the 5 other mountain states named in our notes that have mountainous regions.
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah