Vocabulary
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Great Lake Origins: Camp Fitch
100

a slow moving mass of ice that formed the Great Lakes region

Glacier

100

The lake that we are closest to

Erie

100

This lake is more than 1,333 feet deep!

Lake Superior

100

How were the Great Lakes formed?

Glaciers melting, causing erosion.

200
extreme snow conditions caused by being close to the large bodies of water making up the Great Lakes

Lake-Effect Snow

200

This lake shares the name of the lake closest to it.

Michigan

200

This lake is said to never give up her dead.

Lake Superior

200

Name 2 Indian tribes that lived off of the Great Lakes.

Chippewa, Fox, Huron, Iroquois, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sioux

300

rock that is formed by settling material on the lake beds of the Great Lakes

Sedimentary

300

The lake looks like a wolf's head from outer space, and is where the Edmund Fitzgerald now remains.

Superior

300

This lake has legends of an aquatic monster, similar to that of the Lockness Monster!

Lake Erie
300

Where were the explorers from that first explored the Great Lakes, starting with Lake Huron?

France

400

rock that is formed from melted/molten rock from deep below the earth's crust

Igneous

400

There is a band that shares this lakes' name, and its a group that Mr. Powell listens to.

Huron

400

This city located on the Great Lakes, is home to the Football Hall of Fame.

Cleveland

400

What items/materials did the Indians use from the Great Lakes in order to survive and trade with?

Furs, needles, fish hooks, and skins.

500
This word describes lake bearing vessels that have sank to the very bottom of each lake.

Shipwreck

500

This lake's name was taken directly from the Indian's original name, and shares the name of a popular providence in Canada.

Ontario

500

This Great Lakes city is the closest to Camp Fitch here in the great state of Pennsylvania.

Erie

500

Name the cycle that moves water from the Great Lakes, through the ground around them, evaporates, and then rains back down into the Great Lakes.

The Hydraulic Cycle