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100
Plains, foothills, mountains, and plateaus.
What are the 4 landforms of Colorado?
100
A synonym for treeline.
What is timberline?
100
A very important rodent to the Colorado ecosystem.
What is the prairie dog?
100
Mammals started to appear.
What happened 150 million years ago?
100
Clues that let us know Colorado was once under water.
What are fossils?
200
The three types of rock.
What are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic?
200
Blue spruce.
What is the state tree of Colorado?
200
A majestic mammal that use to freely roam the Colorado plains by the thousands.
What is the bison?
200
What animal roamed Colorado 200 million years ago?
What is the dinosaur?
200
A scientist who uses fossils to study the past.
What is a paleontologist?
300
Volcanic activity, earthquakes, and pressure in the earth.
What causes the earth to change, like uplift?
300
The state flower of Colorado.
What is the columbine?
300
The Wooly Mammoth becomes extinct.
What is 50 million years ago?
300
300 million years ago.
When did uplift occur?
300
Fossils are most likely to be found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
14 thousand feet above sea level.
What is the elevation of Colorado?
400
These Rocky Mountain trees are known to turn golden yellow in the fall.
What are aspen?
400
An unusual animal that live in Colorado 50 million years ago.
What is a three toad horse?
400
50 thousand years ago.
When was the Ice Age?
400
These often form at the top of mountains.
What is a glacier?
500
The elevation of Mount Elbert.
What is 14,431 feet?
500
These trees grow along rivers in the plains.
What are cottonwoods?
500
This Colorado state dinosaur inspired the mascot of the Rockies baseball team.
What is the stegosaurus?
500
The Rocky Mountains started to form.
What is 60 million years ago?
500
The name of the first continent
What is Pangea?