Packet #1: Kennewick Man
What was discovered along the Columbia River in 1996, and how old was it?
Skeleton, 9,500 years old
Which dam is the Roosevelt Reservoir behind?
Grand Coulee Dam
What are 2 different types of boundaries?
Natural and political
What does dormant mean?
Not active
Which city in WA would have been on the seashore millions of years ago?
Spokane
Which explorers rode down the Columbia in 1805?
Lewis and Clark
Which theory is based on a prehistoric culture known for their distinct stone tools found at sites in New Mexico around the 1920’s-1930’s?
The Clovis First Theory
What is one unique fact about the Columbia River?
Largest river in PNW, 4th largest river in the US, named after Captain Robert Gray’s ship, 1,243 miles long
What is one of WA’s physical characteristics?
Rocky beaches, rainforests, islands, mountains, volcanoes, deep river gorges, deserts, rich farmland
How thick was the ice sheet that once covered where Bellingham is today?
Over 5,000 feet thick
What physical feature includes the Cascade and Olympic mountains, as well as volcanoes in multiple continents?
The Ring of Fire
What was created when the North American plate collided with the floor of the Pacific Ocean?
The Cascades
Where does the Land Bridge Theory propose people migrated from and to?
From Siberia to Alaska
What are the Cascades also referred to as?
5 Sleeping Giants
Where is the source of the Columbia River located?
Canada
What is the most impressive deep ravine or gulch that is usually dry and has been formed by running water?
Grand Coulee
What region of WA was formed by deposits of glacial loess?
Palouse (wheat-growing region in Eastern WA)
What is the Lake Stevens Monster?
A massive glacial erratic
What law helped return Kennewick Man to Native American tribes for burial?
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
What rock do geologists believe developed beneath the sea because marine fossils were found near their summits?
Olympic Mountains
What was the Columbia River a resource for when Indian tribes and early trappers used it to transport their canoes and as a source of food ?
The salmon industry
Which body of water is behind Dry Falls Dam?
Banks Lake
What part of Eastern WA was created by Glacial Lake Missoula and the megaflood?
Scablands
Which states were flooded by the glacier dam breaking?
Montana, Idaho, and Washington
The Clovis First Theory is challenged by artifacts found in North/South America that are much older than Clovis culture, like a spear point stuck in what?
A Mastodon Rib
Lake Missoula held a similar amount of water as which 2 bodies of water combined?
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
What kind of power is generated using water to power turbines?
Hydroelectric power
Where did the floods carry debris to and from while farmland was being carved into scabland?
From western Montana or British Columbia to the Pacific Ocean
How tall was the glacier that created the dam for the Clark Fork River?
2,000 feet tall
What is an example of a smaller coulee?
Frenchman, Potholes, Crater
What did scientists find on Sanak Island that suggests it was not actually buried under 600 feet of ice and glaciers 17,000 years ago?
Plant life
It is the nature of what type of lava to cool into clear-cut hexagons?
Basaltic Lava
What 2 latitude parallels and what 2 degrees longitude is WA located between?
46th and 49th parallels north latitude, between 117 and 125 degrees west longitude
How much land does Washington cover?
71,303 square miles
What are rocks that have been moved by huge floods as part of ice rafts called?
Erratics
What was the final onslaught also known as?
The Wisconsin glaciation