Ch. 16 Rocky Mountain States

An area in the arctic region where only small shrubs, mosses, and grasses can grow

• Tundra

• Arid

• Basin

• Continental Divide

A person who chops or saws down trees and takes the logs to a sawmill

• Mrs. Allen

• lumberjack

• lumberman

• lumber person

a dry climate

• Arid

• Basin

• Continental Divide

• valley

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

• lumberjack

• Mrs. Smith

• nomad

mountains that are over fourteen thousand feet above sea level

• fourteeners

• fourers

• fabulous mountains

an important natural resource that many locations in the West lack

• water

• mountains

• land

• trees

an area where there is very little rain due to a mountain barrier that causes the wind to lose moisture

• Humidity

• Moisture

• Rain Shadow

• Rain Lackers

standard time zone for the Rocky Mountain states

• Central Time Zone

• Mountain Time Zone

• Eastern Time Zone

• Rocky Time Zone

a gap between two mountains that makes them easier to get through

• pass

• path

• walkway

• valley

the part of the United States where the Rocky Mountains are located

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

• Western