Native American
Geography
Rain Shadow
Lewis & Clark
Columbia/Dams
100
A traditional celebration, for completion of a longhouse, marriage, birthday, funeral, or coming of age. During this celebration the hosts are expected to bring gifts and the guests are to except them and give back the same amount of gifts in the future.
What is a Potlach?
100
A harbor named after the founder of the columbia.
What is Grays Harbor?
100
The dry side of a mountain(s) in the rain shadow effect.
What is the leeward side?
100
The only African American slave on the expedition.
Who is York?
100
The biggest dam in Washington state.
What is the Grand Coulee dam?
200
The most spiritually powerful member of the tribe. They are a medicine man and if their patient dies, they have to die too.
What is a Shaman?
200
The main penninsula in the pudget sound.
What is the Kitsap Penninsula?
200
The wet side of the mountains(s) in the rain shadow effect.
What is the windward side?
200
One of the two main explorers on the journey. He was a soldier and 28 years old.
Who is Lewis?
200
The longest river in Washington state. It creates a border for Oregon and Washington. It also starts in Canada, flows throught Washington, and ends in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Columbia River?
300
A type of indian that lives by large bodies of water.
What is a coastal tribe?
300
A large body of water that is about 95 miles long and is an outlet from the pudget sound to the Pacific Ocean. It is a border of Washington State and Vancouver Island.
What is the Strait of Juan de Fuca?
300
The body of water that provides water for percipitation.
What is the Ocean?
300
The only main river that flows into Washington, Idaho, and Oregon.
What is the Snake River?
400
A type of Indian that is very nomadic and lives in a dry climate.
What is a plateau tribe?
400
The largest mountain range in Washington. It seperates the West and East side.
What are the Cascades?
400
The mass area of condensed water vapor that provides stable movement for the precipitation.
What are clouds?
400
A member of the Shasone tribe who help Lewis and Clark on the expedition. She was a pregnant 16 year old.
Who is Sacajawea?
400
A way to create renewable energy from water.
What is hydropower?
500
A great duwamish tribe Leader that has many schools and a city named after and he from 1786-1866.
Who is Chief Sealth?
500
The state's capital.
What is Olympia?
500
Rain, snow, sleet, hail, drizzle, and freezing rain.
What is percipitation?
500
Daily Double: The man who sold the Louisiana purchase to Thomas Jefferson.
Who is Napolen?
500
Source of water used by barge workers when they need to get through dams.
What is slack water?