Social Studies Ch 16
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- The point on a mountain where it is too cold for trees to grow is called the
- timberline
- The Grand Coulee Dam makes hydroelectricity by using the power of the ____ River.
- Columbia
- what is lava?
- melted rock
- The important natural resources of California and Oregon include ____.
- forests
- A low, bowl-shaped area of land that is surrounded by moutain ranges best describes the
- Great Basin
- The highest point in North America is in the state of ____.
- Alaska
- Hawaii is an unusal state because it
- is made up of volcanic islands
- How does the rain shadow effect the weather in moutainous areas?
- much rain falls on one side of the mountain, little rain on the other.
- The Continental Divide is an imaginary line that divides ____.
- the east and west flowing riversthat run from the Rocky Mountains
- Miles of irrigation canals make crop growing possible in ____.
- the Central Valley
- The lowest point in North America lies in ___.
- Death Valley
- The Western slopes of the Sierra Nevada are best known for their ____.
- Sequoias
- What state is an important producer of oil?
- Alaska
- What moutain range stretches along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California?
- Coast Ranges
- California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii are all ____ states?
- Pacific
- What mountains are the source of many rivers in the West?
- The Rocky Mountains
- The Pacific Ocean is an important source of _____.
- tuna and salmon
- An opening in the earth from which hot gas, ash, and lava may pour out is called a
- volcano
- Butte, Montana, sits on one of the world's richest deposits of ____.
- copper
- The hottest and friest place in the United States is ____.
- Death Valley