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Nick Names
Vocabulary
Natural Resources
100
largest inland salt water lake
What is the Great Salt Lake?
100
Colorado
What is CO?
100
The Equality State
What is Wyoming?
100
a region's temperature and a region's precipitation
What is climate?
100
trees
What is lumber?
200
largest open-pit mine
What is Bingham Canyon Mine?
200
Idaho
What is ID?
200
The Treasure State
What is Montana?
200
The point at which no trees can grow
What is the timberline?
200
2 molecules of hydrogen, 1 molecule of oxygen = H2O
What is water?
300
oldest national park
What is Yellowstone National Park?
300
Wyoming
What is WY?
300
Beehive State
What is Utah?
300
The area where the trees are crooked and strange
What is krummholz forest?
300
valuable blue gems
What is a sapphire?
400
imaginary line that runs along the peaks of the Rockies from north to south and separates rivers that run east from rivers that run west
What is the Continental Divide?
400
Utah
What is UT?
400
the Gem State
What is Idaho?
400
the waste from melting copper ore into pure metal copper
What is slag?
400
silver, gold, uranium, zinc, lead, copper
What are the metals mined in the West?
500
highest peak in the Rockies
What is Mount Elbert?
500
Montana
What is MT?
500
the Centennial State
What is Colorado?
500
The process of melting copper ore into a pure metal
What is smelting?
500
heating, cooking fuel
What is natural gas?