Basic Info
This is where Mount Rainier lies.
What is Washington (the state)?
These are periods of minor eruptive activity.
What is the 1820s to the 1890s?
Rising air over mountains creates rain and snow that help these icy features grow or shrink.
What are glaciers?
This is what plate boundary is in the area.
What is a convergent boundary?
This is its long-term eruption history.
What are major eruptions about 1,000, 2,200, and 5,600 years ago?
When air rises over mountains, it cools and produces these two forms of precipitation.
What are rain and snow?
This plate movement caused its formation.
What is a Subduction Zone?
Glacier retreat, loss of snowpack, and a shift from snow to rainfall increasing wildfire risk and reshaping alpine ecosystems.
What are climate-related hazards associated with volcanic change?
This is how the biosphere is affected by Rainier.
What is nutrient rich soil made from lava rock breakdown?
This is the type of volcano Rainier is.
What is a Stratovolcano.
Threatening nearby settlements with ashfall, altered water sources, and hazardous travel conditions.
What are effects on nearby populations during minor eruptive periods?
This is what the layers of Ranier are made of.
What are hardened lava, ash, and volcanic debris?