Chapter 6 6th History Study Guide

What is the beginning point of rivers called?

What desert is especially known for its dazzling white sands?

What is a stretch of high land that divides the river systems of a continent called?

What Indian tribe has a state named after them?

What river flows through the Grand Canyon?

What is the system of mountain ranges from the Arctic Circle South America's tip called?

What have hooves with suction-like cups in the Rockies?

What is the highest peak in the Rockies?

What is the oldest national park in the world?

What is the largest saltwater lake in North America

What is the richest desert in terms of cacti in the U.S.?

What is the largest river to flow into the Pacific Ocean from North America?

What is the deepest lake in the U.S., found in SW Oregon, & fills the hollow of a dead volcano?

Who joined Lewis and Clark with her baby on their trip to the Pacific Ocean?

What tree lives longer than any other tree in the world?

What is the oldest known living tree at over 4,700 years old?

What is the deepest canyon in the U.S.?

What is found in the Painted Desert that has huge tree trunks whose wood has turned to stone?

What is the hottest and driest part of North America?

What scientific term means “active at night”?

What is the poisonous lizard (of only two in the world) found in North American deserts?

What is the U.S.'s vast, arid 5 regions, each with distinctive landforms and vegetation called?

What two Latin terms mean the plants and animals of a specific region?

What is the largest lava plateau in the world?

What is the most widely distributed carnivorous animal in the New World?

What is North America’s continental divide called?

Which cactus is the largest in the world?

What is the vulture with a bald, orange head that is the largest land bird in North America?

What are the two problems animals and plants of the desert have to cope with?

What bird makes its nest behind waterfalls and also goes by the name of “water dipper”?

What is the sandstone landform is beautiful colors in northeastern Arizona called?

What is the term for a hot spring where columns of boiling water shoot upward out of the earth?

What is the highest waterfall in North America?

What bird has the largest wingspan of any bird and is sometimes called the gooney bird?

Who were one of the first white woman to go west of the Rockies?

What tribe was famous for their woven rugs, silver jewelry, and are the 2nd largest in US now?

What are the wild sheep of North America?

What Indian tribe cut multi-room houses into rock?

What is the largest desert area in the U.S.?

What is the highest point in the U.S. OUTSIDE Alaska?

What is the world’s largest geyser?

What Indian tribe means pierced nose and were famous as breeders of the appaloosa horse?

What is known as the fat little farmer of the mountain slopes?

What is the largest canyon in the world?

What is the most dangerous animal of North America (ursa horribilis)?

What term means “between the mountains”?