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What is an area in the arctic region where only small shrubs, mosses, and grasses can grow?
Tundra
Who is a person who chops down trees and takes the logs to a sawmill?
Lumberjack
What word means a dry climate?
Arid
Who is a person with no permanent home who moves from place to place in search of food and water?
Nomad
What name is given to mountains that are over fourteen thousand feet above sea level?
Fourteeners
What is an important natural resource that many locations in the West lack?
Water
What is an area where there is very little rain due to a mountain barrier that causes the wind to lose moisture?
Rain shadow
What is the standard time zone for the Rocky Mountain states?
Mountain Time Zone
What word describes a gap between two mountains that makes them easier to get through?
Pass
In what part of the United States are the Rocky Mountains located?
Western
Who were the first European explorers to investigate what is now Utah and Nevada?
The Spanish
What discovery in Wyoming by a group of fur traders enabled pioneers to travel to Oregon and California in wagon trains?
South Pass
Who built their homes of clay on the mountain ledges?
Pueblo Indians
What are two facts about the Continental Divide?
It is the tallest part of the Rocky Mountains. It extends from Alaska to Mexico. Water flows out in two different directions from the divide.
What is the capital of Colorado?
Denver
What is the capital of Idaho?
Boise
