Chapter 2 NORTH AMERICA

Glacier National Park

After watching the Glacier National Park video, consider the questions below. Then "submit" your response.

1. When Glacier National Park was first formed, it had about how many glaciers?

250

200

150

100

2. By 2007, when the report was made, the number of glaciers had been reduced by about

10 percent

25 percent

50 percent

75 percent

3. If the current melting trend continues, scientists say that all the glaciers will be gone in how many years?

100

4. Bears and other organisms depend on which ecosystem for the plants they eat?

Dense forests

Tourists

Forbs (flowering plants) in land stripped of forest by avalanches

Gravel terraces