Montana's Geography Part 1

Question 1

How can you tell by examining a mammoth tusk how old the mammoth was when it died?

Accepted Answer

By counting the rings on its tusk

Question 2

What do you call a person from Montana?

Accepted Answer

Montanan

Question 3

Where was the first dinosaur found ever in western hemisphere discovered in 1854?

Accepted Answer

Judith River east of Fort Benton

Question 4

Where were North America&#x27;s first fossilized dinosaur eggs found?

Accepted Answer

Egg Mountain, Pine Butte Swamp Nature Preserve

Question 5

What is the average elevation of Montana?

Accepted Answer

34 hundred feet

Question 6

What was Rolland Walker doing when he found a eleven-thousand-year-old fossilized mamamoth tusk near Glendive in 1966?

Accepted Answer

Driving his combine

Question 7

Glacial Lake Missoula, a lake formed in western Montana by ice dams how many times?

Accepted Answer

36-40

Question 8

Montana comes from the Latin and Spanish word for what?

Accepted Answer

Mountainous

Question 9

Where would you find the largest single piece of land above ten thousand feet in elevation in forty-eight states?

Accepted Answer

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

Question 10

Why did the Missouri River, which formely drained into Hudson Bay, change its course?

Accepted Answer

Ice Age Glaciers Blocked it

Question 11

What is the Montana State fossil?

Accepted Answer

Maiasaura peeblesorum

Question 12

How many states have a larger land area than Montana&#x27;s 147,046 square miles?

Accepted Answer

Three

Question 13

Where does Montana reach its lowest altitude of 1,820 feet?

Accepted Answer

In the northwestern corner, where the Kootenai River enters Idaho.

Question 14

Where can you find some of the oldest rocks on earth, estimated to be 4 billion years old?

Accepted Answer

Lewis Range in Glacier National Park

Question 15

With its headwaters in Montana, what is the nations longest river?

Accepted Answer

Missouri

Question 16

With peaks towering to 11 thousand ft , what mountain range qualifies as Montana&#x27;s 2nd highest range?

Accepted Answer

Madison Range

Question 17

When a million prehistoric grasshopers got in a storm and died, landed on a glacier that is in this mountain range?

Accepted Answer

Beartooth Mountains

Question 18

How many of the fifty highest points in the state are located in the Beartooth Range near Yellowstone Park?

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 19

A laccolith, formed when magma rises but can&#x27;t break through the soil and hardens but is later revealed by erosion is?

Accepted Answer

Butte

Question 20

Montana is the fourth most geologically active state, behind what other three?

Accepted Answer

Alaska, Minnesota, Oregon

Question 21

How many earthquakes rattled Helena in the fall and winter of 1935?

Accepted Answer

over twelve hundred

Question 22

Archaeological evidence suggests that human first inhabited Montana how many years ago?

Accepted Answer

11 thousand, 11k

Question 23

When the 1959 earthquake that hit Yellowstone and buried a campground. How many were killed.

Accepted Answer

28

Question 24

Forming the western border, what is the longest mountain range in the state?

Accepted Answer

Bitterroots

Question 25

When the landslide blocked the flow of the Madison River, what new lake was formed?

Accepted Answer

Quake Lake

Question 26

Of the three partial T. rex fossilized skeletons known to be in existence, how many were discovered in Montana?

Accepted Answer

15

Question 27

What&#x27;s the largest mammal to ever roam in what is now Montana?

Accepted Answer

Woolly Mammoth

Question 28

What percentage of the state lies at an altitude of five thousand feet or higher?

Accepted Answer

50%

Question 29

Montana&#x27;s highest elevation of 12,799 feet is found at what place?

Accepted Answer

Granite Peak

Question 30

A volcanic explosion in Yellowston 50 million years ago was how large, when compared to Mount St. Helens?

Accepted Answer

25 hundred times bigger

Montana's Geography Part 1

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Montana's Geography Part 1

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