Physical Features of the Pacific West Region
Activity 2






1.    Of the 20 highest mountain peaks in the U.S., How many are in Alaska?
 

2.    How many mountain ranges does Alaska have?
 

3.    What is the highest peak? How high is it?
 

4.    What is the Indian name for it?
 

5.    Which Pacific West mountain is the tallest mountain in North America?
 

6.    Who was it named for? When?
 

7.    Before that, what did the Native Americans call it?
 

8.    Yosemite is the crown jewel of what mountain range?
 

9.    The Sierra Nevada is not a single chain of mountains. What is it made of?
 

10.  How wide is it?
 

11.  What is a volcano?
 

12.  What are most volcanoes? What shape are they?
 

13.  What happens when a volcano erupts?
 

14.  What are hazards of volcanoes?
 

15.  What is Mount St. Helen?
 

16.  What state is Mount St. Helen in?
 

17.  When did Mount St. Helens erupt?
 

18.  How did the Native Americans feel about Mount St. Helens?
 

19.  Did they live close to it?
 

20.  What were some of the names they had for Mount St. Helens?
 

21.  How many feet of Mount St. Helens was removed from the top when it erupted?
 

22.  What was the elevation before and after the eruption?
 

23.  Was everything destroyed? What was the first plant to grow?
 

24.  How did some of the animals survive?
 

25.  How many potentially active volcanoes are there in Alaska?
 

26.  What was the most violent eruption of the century?
 

27.  When did it take place?
 

28.  What did it create?
 

29.  Which ocean is the largest and the deepest?
 

30.  What states border the Pacific Ocean?
 

31.  What does the word pacific mean? Who named it?
 

32.  How much of the earth's surface does it cover?
 

33.    What state is the most isolated?
 

34.  How far is it from California?
 

35.  How many islands make up Hawaii?
 

36.    What Alaskan river is the 3rd largest in the United States?
 
 

37.  What is the largest river in Oregon?
 
 

38.  Why is water important to Oregon? What is it used for?
 
 

39.  How many distint geographic bands is Oregon divided into?
 
 

40.  What is the coastal region? What is it bordered by?