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78 Cards in this Set
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Cordilleran Chain
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longest mountain chain on earth
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Condilleran Chain includes
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the Rocky Mountains of Canada and US, Sierra Madre of Mexico, and the Andes of South America
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The Rockies
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the backbone of North America
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The Rockies cover?
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more than 60 mountain ranges and about 3000 miles
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Upper slopes of the Colorado Rockies
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"Roof of America"
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Mt. Elbert
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the highest peak in the Rockies
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Summits
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highest points
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flora
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the plants of a specific region
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fauna
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the animals of a specific region
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Continental Divide
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a stretch of high land that divides the river systems of a continent
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What is North America's divide called
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the Great Divide
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Where would a drop of rain land if it falls to the east of the divide
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eventually flow into the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean
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Where would a drop of rain land if it falls to the west of the Great Divide
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Pacific Ocean
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headwaters
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beginning points
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Platte River
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tributary to the Missouri River
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Green River
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tributary to the Colorado River
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Colorado River
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main source of water for the Southwest of North America
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The Colorado River is most famous because it flows into
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Grand Canyon
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Columbia River
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largest river into the Pacific Ocean from North America
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What is the longest river in Canada
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Mackenzie River
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What is the oldest national park in the world?
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Yellowstone National Park
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What is the largest wildlife preserve in the US?
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Yellowstone National Park
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What is a hot spring
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a spring where the water is above 98 degrees
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What is a geyser
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a hot spring from which columns of boiling water and steam shoot out of the earth
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Old Faithful
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the most famous geyser
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the world's largest geyser
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Steamboat Geyser
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Mammoth Hot Springs
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most famous hot springs in the park
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What is the largest high altitude lake in North America
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Yellowstone Lake
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The wild sheep of North America
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Bighorn
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Ewes are
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female sheep
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rams are
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male sheep
they have curling horns have a double layered skull |
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grazing
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eating grass
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browsing
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eating leaves, twigs, and young shoots of trees
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What is the most daring climber in the animal world and has hooves with suction cups and four stomachs
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The Rocky Mountain goat
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The most widely distrubuted carnivorous animal in the New World
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Mountain Lions
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2nd largest cat in the Western Hemisphere
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mountain lion
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The most dangerous animal of North America
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Grizzly bear
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A member of the hare family; furry and egg-shaped and is the fat little farmer of the mountain slopes
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pikas
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What robin-sized bird is comfortable in the water and the sky and makes its nest behind a waterfall; sings to the tune of its waterfall
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water ouzel
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What is the deepest canyon in the United States
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Hells Canyon
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The largest desert area in the US
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Great Basin Desert
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What is the oldest known living tree
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a bristlecone pine called Methuselah
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the tree that lives longer than any other tree in the world
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bristlecone pine
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1 natural wonder of the world that is the largest saltwater lake in North America and the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River
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Great Salt Lake
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What can live in the Great Salt Lake
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brine shrimp
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The largest Canyon in the world
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Grand Canyon in Arizona
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Who lives near the bottom of the Grand Canyon
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Havasupai Indians; name means "people of the glue green water"
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a desert in northeastern Arizona
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Painted Desert
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Indians that live in the Painted Desert
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Navajo and Hopi
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the hottest and driest part of North America
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California's Death Valley
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The highest point in the US outside of Alaska
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Mt. Whitney:has temperatures up to 125 degrees
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the largest cactus in the world
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saguaro cactus
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the world's most spectacular limestone caverns
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Carlsbad Caverns
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hardy desert plants
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creosote bushes, Joshua trees, sagebrush, yuccas
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Cactus that can be 10 feet tall and 4 feet across
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Barrel Cacti
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most widely spread cactus
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prickly pear
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gila monster
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one of only two poisonous lizards in the world
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fierce looking lizard with a squatty body and horny spines
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horned toad
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most abundant mammals of desert
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rodents
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this animal collects objects and hides them in his nest
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pack rat
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animal that bounds 35 miles an hour
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antelope jack rabbit
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a wild member of the dog family
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coyote
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animal that lives in caves and their droppings are used to make fertilizer
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bats
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a bird that dashes up to 15 miles per hour
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roadrunner
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large vulture; largest land bird in North America
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California condor
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the highest peaks of the Cascades
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Mount Rainier in Washington
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the deepest lake in the US
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Crater Lake
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Highest peak in the US south of Alaska
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Mount Whitney
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the big tree or the Sierra redwood
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giant Sequoia
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Sacagawea
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"Bird Woman" a Shoshone Indian lady that travelled with Lewis and Clark
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spotted horse; sometimes with a splotched coat
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appaloosa
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Chief of Nez Perce
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Chief Joseph
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Salish Indians
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"Flatheads"
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Pueblo is Spanish for
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village
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rule for Pueblo people
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Everything in moderation, no excess, no waste
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Navajo
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the largest Indian tribe in the US today
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Apache
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the last Indians to resist the settlement of the white man
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Geronimo
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Apache leader ; accepted Christianity after moving to Oklahoma
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