Social Studies Chapter 16 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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What is the capital of Montana?

Helena

What word describes a gap between two mountains that makes them easier to get through?

Pass

Who were the first European explorers to investigate what is now Utah and Nevada?

The Spanish

What is the capital of Nevada?

Carson City

Who is a person with no permanent home who moves from place to place in search of food and water?

Nomad

Who built their homes of clay on the mountain ledges?

Pueblo Indians

What word means a dry climate?

Arid

What is an important natural resource that many locations in the West lack?

Water

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 discovery in Wyoming by a group of fur traders enabled pioneers to travel to Oregon and California in wagon trains?

South Pass

What is the capital of Utah?

Salt Lake City

What is the capital of Wyoming?

Cheyenne

In what part of the United States are the Rocky Mountains located?

Western

What is the capital of Idaho?

Boise

Who is a person who chops down trees and takes the logs to a sawmill?

Lumberjack

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 capital of Colorado?

Denver

What is an area in the arctic region where only small shrubs, mosses, and grasses can grow?

Tundra

What is the standard time zone for the Rocky Mountain states?

Mountain Time Zone

What name is given to mountains that are over fourteen thousand feet above sea level?

Fourteeners