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Growth of the West
The West of Today
100
This mountain range stretches more than 3,000 miles, including parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
This western state has the most extreme winter temperatures.
What is Alaska?
100
This word means to plant trees to replace trees that have been cut down.
What is reforest?
100
This Native American tribe still lives in Alaska and carve totem poles to place outside of their homes.
What is the Tlingit tribe?
100
This is a geographic area made up of countries that border the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Pacific Rim?
200
This melted rock is underneath the earth's surface.
What is magma?
200
This location receives about 450 inches of rain a year.
What is Mount Waialeale, Hawaii?
200
Colorado has such a large supply of this fuel that much of it is sent to other states.
What is coal?
200
Father Junipero Serra helped Spain accomplish its goals in California by building the first mission in this present day city.
What is San Diego?
200
Los Angeles exports this product to countries around the world.
What are movies?
300
Highways and railroads can tear apart during an earthquake as a result of this process.
What is huge blocks of earth shifting along fault lines?
300
This word means active at night.
What is nocturnal?
300
This is the reason the salmon population started declining 50 years ago.
What is people were building dams along the rivers where salmon reproduced?
300
The American public changed its mind about the value of the Alaskan territory when these two things were discovered there.
What is gold and oil?
300
This material is obtained from rocks and is used to make key computer parts.
What is silicon?
400
This lake is a saltwater lake and does not flow into another body of water.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
400
This animal stays warm in arctic waters with a thick layer of fat called blubber.
What is a walrus?
400
People are doing this to make it easier for salmon to find their spawning ground.
What is changing dams?
400
Thousands of people came to California in 1849 in what was known as this.
What is the Gold Rush?
400
This product is produced by the United States in the "Silicon Valley".
What are computers?
500
This is a hot underground spring that shoots steam and boiling water high into the air.
What is a geyser?
500
This is a level, frozen area in the far north where the temperatures are so cold that trees cannot grow.
What is tundra?
500
Many crops are grown in this long valley in California set between the Sierra Nevada and the Coastal Range.
What is the Central Valley?
500
This is a tall post carved with the images of people and animals.
What is a totem pole?
500
The governments of states in the West make sure there is enough water for everyone by doing this.
What is teach people to conserve water?