Natural Resources and Industry in the Pacific West Region

Pacific West States	Major Industries
Alaska:
California:
Hawaii:
Oregon:
Washington:

6. What other industries are important to Alaska?

7. Where and when was oil discovered?

8. What is the Alaskan pipeline?

9. How long does it take for oil to travel from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez?

10. Tourism is important to Alaska. How many people travel there each year?

11. Why is tourism a primary industry in Oregon?

12. Alaska is the number one producer of what type of fish?

13. What is Alaska’s state fish? How much does it usually weigh?

14. What was one of Oregon’s first industries?

15. What two fish make up the bulk of the commercial salmon catch?

16. Why are salmon famous?

17. Alaska’s timber industry supplies the world with what?

18. The manufacturing portion of the forest products industry in Oregon consists of what?

19. Alaska contains half the nations what?

20. What natural resources influenced the settlement of Oregon?

21. What are Oregon’s largest manufacturing industries?

22. Describe Oregon’s agricultural industry:

23. Who discovered gold in California? What was he doing?

24. How many people came to California in 1849? Why?

25. What was this called?

26. What were the people called?

27. What major environmental disaster happened on March 24, 1989 in Anchorage, Alaska?

28. Where did the tanker run aground?

29. What challenge does the oil industry have?

30. What is oil?

31. How is oil used?