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.
Speculation about when the Yellowstone volcano will next erupt, for instance, has raged for the better part of this year. Mount Rainier is the tallest volcano in the United States with a summit elevation of 14,411 feet. The most recent recorded eruption at Rainier was between 1820 and 1854, but some eyewitnesses reported eruptions as recent as 1894, according to author Stephen Harris (Mount Rainier: Americaâs Most Dangerous Volcano). The last major eruption was about 1,000 years ago. A sketch of Rainier erupting.