Climate
The average pattern of weather for a particular region.
What is climate?
The general term for natural features found on the Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
This famous long suspension bridge is located in San Francisco.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
A material found in nature that people use.
What is a natural resource?
The total number of states listed as being in the West Region.
What is 11?
Besides being cold, Alaska's weather is usually described by this one-word condition.
What is wet?
The name of the lowest and driest area in the United States.
What is Death Valley?
The Seattle observation tower that features a revolving restaurant.
What is the Space Needle?
The black rock found in the West used to produce electricity and gasoline.
What is coal?
Name any one of the "Pacific States" in the region.
What is California (or OR, WA, AK, HI)?
The general term for rain, snow, sleet, or hail, which falls on Mt. Waialeale in Hawaii at a rate of nearly 500 inches per year.
What is precipitation?
Huge groups of mountains, such as the Rockies.
What are mountain ranges?
Located mostly in Wyoming, this was the world’s first national park.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This type of "nutrient-rich" ground makes many western states perfect for growing crops.
What is soil (or farmland)?
Name any one of the "Mountain States" in the region.
What is Colorado (or ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)?
This two-word phrase describes the climate of Death Valley, which only receives about 2 inches of rain a year.
What is hot and dry?
This desert in the West receives very little rain and is mentioned specifically in your unit.
What is the Mojave Desert (or Great Salt Lake Desert)?
The highest mountain in Oregon, which is actually a dormant volcano.
What is Mt. Hood?
This liquid natural resource, used for fuel, is provided by California, Oregon, and Washington.
What is oil?
These two states are the only ones in the West not connected to the others by land.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
The two natural events in the West described as a fast-moving flow of mud and a very hot, uncontrolled burning of plants.
What are mudslides and wildfires?
The total number of "main islands" that make up the state of Hawaii.
What is 8?
The amount of time—specifically "over" this many years—that it took to build the Golden Gate Bridge.
What is 4 years?
The specific type of large farm animal raised on ranches throughout the West.
What are cattle?
According to the unit's map key, this state is identified as #5.
What is Idaho?