Location: unknown. In this lesson, students learn how to measure the area of the tire footprint on a car and to find air pressure using a tire gauge. Students then find the weight of the car using their fraction multiplication skills.
Mount Rainier National Park. Mount Rainier National Park is a United States National Park located in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state. It was established on March 2, 1899 as the fifth national park in the United States.
Mount Rainier is the highest volcanic peak in the Cascades, a mountain range that stretches from Mount Garibaldi in British Columbia to Lassen Peak in Northern California. Mount Rainier was formed not in one great cataclysm, but by many years of volcanic activity. It is a composite volcano (or stratovolcano) made from sluggish, intermittent lava flows and explosive eruptions of ash and rock. Volcanoes have been erupting in this region for at least 40 million years.