Fire and Ice
what was the name of the super-continent that north America was part of, millions of years ago?
what is... Pangea
What are Washington's 5 sleeping giants?
What are... Mt. Baker, Glacier Peak, Mt. Rainer, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Adams
What is the definition of a Potlach? (as said in the pp)
What is... A Potlatch was a huge celebration for special events host by a family
What was the largest group of Indians in the North?
What is... The Salish
What year was the skull found in the river by college students?
What is... 1996
what river did the floods swell up in every 50-60 years?
what is... the Columbia river
What is the name of the lake previously found in central Washington?
What was... Lake Missoula
How many dams have been built on the Grand Coulee?
What is... 11 dams
How many different type of salmon were there?
What is... 5 types of salmon
Who were the first people in America?
Who are... The Paleo Indians
What are the oldest mountains in the west, and what are the characteristics of older mountains?
What is... the rocky mountains?
What is... more rounded summit
How tall, wide and long is the Grand Coulee?
What is... 400ft tall, 1-6 miles wide and 50 miles long
What is the definition of Loess soil?
What is... a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment, on the Steptoe Butte forms the rich farmland of the Palouse Hills Region. Loess is also a mixture of very fine volcanic ash and dust carried on the wind and deposited.
Name 3 ways Native Americans got there food?
What is... hunting, fishing and picking berries
What language did Chinook speak, and what was the language used for?
What is.. Penutain, and they used he language for trading mostly.
The ring of fire, is made up of volcanoes on what continents, and what side of the continents are they on? (By side, we mean the cardinal directions, for example, north, east, etc.)
What is... the western side of North and south America, and the eastern side of Asia and Australia.
Name 4 animals that lived in Washington's ice age?
What is... The Columbian Mammoth, Sloths, Saber Tooth Tigers, Camels or Gigantic Bison
For both men and women, name two things each gender did? (can't be the same things)
What is... Women gathered roots and berries, dried the meat and fish, cared children, prepared the animal skin, made clothing.
Men fished and hunted, made tools and weapons, built houses. Maybe went to war.
what did archeologists find by the Columbia river?
What is... a 10, 250 year old settlement
Around how many years ago did Native Americans come to the Pacific Northwest?
What is... about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago
The waterfalls on the river in downtown Spokane, are the result of what? (be specific!)
What is.. a smaller, basalt flow that originated in the city's very popular South Hill and moved down across the river.
What was the date of the Mt. St. Helens eruption and how powerful was it?
What is... May 18th, 1980 and the eruption was equal to 21000 atomic bombs
Using fossils, name two things we have discovered about Washington's past.
What is... Using fossils we have learned that oceans once covered Washington and there was a huge tropical forest in central Washington.
Name 3 ways horses changed daily lives for the Native Americans?
What is... hunting, trading, they were also used as a method transportation, and also they were used as food in certain cases
Name the Native American group that lived on the Northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula, and describe the animal they primarily hunted?
What is... The Makah, and the animals that they primarily hunted was the Gray Whale