Vocab
Moderate climate
What is temperate?
The most common language of tribes in the Pacific Northwest
What is Salish?
Relies on farming, mining, ranching and lumbering for it's economy.
What is the Rocky Mountain Region?
Moving from one place to another
What is migration?
Produced by water and dams
Tribes of the coast live in houses like these.
What are Long Houses?
High, flat land. Covers most of eastern Washington.
What is the Columbia Plateau.
Variety. Differences in religion, nature, ethnicity.
What is diversity?
Trade
What is commerce?
Tribes of the Plateau live in houses like these
What are Pit houses?
The Cascade Curtain
Tourism and farming are important to this regions economy
What is the Cascade Range?
A system of trading money for goods and services.
What is economy?
Trading route between countries that have a border along the Pacific Ocean
What is the Pacific Rim?
Killing of missionaries and others due to not healing local Natives.
What is the Whitman Massacre?
Plains and Valleys
Most of the states population lives here.
Ports and Corporations are important to the economy.
What is the Puget Sound Lowlands?
Forces that cause the Earths crust to move.
What are tectonics?
Someone who travels to a different country or community to get others to join their religion.
Who is a missionary?
Important to Native Tribes of the Pacific Northwest due to its use as a trading hub.
Relies on tourism for economy.
Rainforest.
What is the Coastal Range?
A barrier to commerce in central Washington
What is the Cascade Curtain?