| | Mount Rainier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Above 6000 feet (1800m) elevation, Rainier is mostly covered by snow and (A slowly moving mass of ice) glaciers, but heat from the (A mountain formed by volcanic material) volcano keeps areas of the crater rim on its summit cone mostly (Water frozen in the solid state) ice-free. |
| | Mount Rainier's earliest (Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface) lavas are about 500,000 years old (Sisson and others, 2001). |
| | Mount Rainier was first discovered by the (Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived) Native Americans. |
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