ROCKY MOUNTAINS

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• Location is Central New Mexico to North Alaska
• The tallest mountain in the Rockies is Mount Elbert, Colorado at 14,413 feet.
• The Rockies are 3,000 miles long

BASIC FACTS

• Most mountains exceed timberline
• A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea.

BACIC FACTS

• Some snow caps are permanent
• Young Mountains

INTERESTING FACTS

• Some minerals found in the Rockies are zinc, lead, cooper, silver and gold.
• The tribes that settled in the Rockies are Cheyenne, Apache and Sioux
• The Rockies are split in to four parts 750 miles each.
• The first European explorer who crossed the Rockies was Sir Alexander McKenzie in 1793

WHY OR WHY NOT TO LIVE THERE

• I would not want to live there because it is so high in the mountains and cold because of the elevation.
• A reason why I would want to live there is because at the bottom there is lots of food, water, and trees.