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Culture/History
Map Skills
100
the capital of Colorado
What is Denver?
100
the state that has about 100 volcanoes, but it also has glaciers
What is Alaska?
100
this state is number one for growing potatoes
What is Idaho?
100

opened up the the west to settlers, made traveling easier

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

100
the 2 states not part of the contiguous United States
What are Alaska and Hawaii
200
Carson City is the capital of ______
What is Nevada?
200
the biggest mountain range in North America
What is the Rocky Mountains?
200

100's of fruits, potatoes, dairy, pineapple and seafood

What are major agricultural products?

200

In the 1930's many were fleeing ______

What is the Dust Bowl?

200
the 3 (contiguous) states that border the Pacific Ocean
What are California, Washington, Oregon?
300
the capital of Alaska
What is Juneau?
300
the Rocky Mountains form the line, where rivers on the east flow into the Atlantic Ocean and rivers on the west flow into the Pacific Ocean
What is the Continental Divide?
300

Didn't get rich from mining gold, but supplying things miners needed.

Who is Levi Strauss?

300
two ways rivers generate electricity

What is a dam or run of the river?

300

the two sub-regions of the West 

What are the Mountain and Pacific States?

400
Olympia is the capital of _______
What is Washington?
400

oceans, grassland, desert, rainforests, volcanoes

What are typical landforms?

400
a lot of gold has been discovered in this state
What is Nevada?
400

Custer and all his soldiers were killed

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?  They were fighting to keep their land.

400

______ was thought of as wasteland

What is Alaska?

500
the capital of Montana
What is Helena?
500
this mountain (in Alaska) is the highest peak in North America
What is Mt. McKinley?
500
4 ways Westerners earn a living
What is logging, farming, mining and manufacturing
500

plate techtonics, volcanoes and earthquakes

What is the Ring of Fire?

500

_____ was bombed by the Japanese bringing the US into WWII.

What is Hawaii?