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History Ch. 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fauna | animals of a region |
| flora | plants of a specific region |
| continental divide | a stretch of high land that divides the rivers of a continent |
| Great Divide | name given to the divide in North America |
| Yellowstone National Park | oldest national park in the world and one of the largest in North America |
| mountain lion | second largest cat in the Western Hemisphere |
| grizzly bear | most dangerous animal in North America |
| Great Basin Desert | largest desert area in the United States |
| bristlecone pine | lives longer than any other tree in the world |
| Grand Canyon | world's largest canyon |
| Carlsbad Caverns | world's most spectacular limestone caverns |
| prickly pear | most widespread species of cactus |
| gila monster | poisonous lizard found in the deserts of North America |
| California condor | largest land bird in North America |
| Mount St. Helen's | large volcano in the Cascades that erupted on May 18, 1980 |
| Crater Lake | deepest lake in the United States |
| Yosemite Falls | North America's highest waterfall |
| General Sherman Tree | giant sequoia that is considered to be the world's largest in wood volume |
| Sacagawea | famous Shoshone woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark |
| Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding | first white women to journey west of the Rockies |
| reservation | land set aside by the government as a home for an Indian tribe |
| Navajo | second largest tribe in the United States today |
| bighorn | wild sheep of North America |
| mountain goat | member of the antelope family whose hooves have suction-like cup |
| mountain lion | most wildly distributed carnivore in the New World |
| pika | "fat little farmer of the mountain" |
| kangaroo rat | long-tailed desert rat that need very small amounts of water |
| Rocky Mountains | backbone of North America |
| wandering albetross | bird with the greatest wingspan |
| saguaro | largest cactus; found only in the Sonoran Desert |
| California redwood | world's tallest trees |
| giant sequoia | grows only on western slopes of the Sierra Nevada |
| Old Faithful | most famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park |
| Mammoth Hot Springs | most famous hot springs in Yellowstone |
| Yellowstone Lake | largest high-altitude lake in North America |
| Columbia River | largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America |
| Hell's Canyon | deepest canyon in the U.S. |
| Great Salt Lake | largest saltwater lake in North America |
| Death Valley | hottest and driest part of North America |
| Cordilleran Chain | longest mountain chain on earth |
| Mt. Elbert | the highest peak in the Rockies |
| Mt. Whitney | the highest peak in the U.S. south of Alaska |
| Havasupai | a small, isolated tribe living near the bottom of the Grand Canyon |
| Nez Perce | famous as breeders of the appaloosa horse |
| Pueblo | cut multi-room houses from solid rock |
| Pueblo | "everything in moderation, no excess, no waste" |
| Mojave | lived in scattered groups wherever good farm land was found |
| Navajo | second largest tribe in the U.S. today |
| Apache | some of the last to resist settlement by the white man |
| Marcus & Narcissa Whitman | missionary to the Cayuse; martyred for Christ |
| Chief Joseph | most famous chief of the Nez Perce |
| Geronimo |
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