Mount Carleton

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/mount-carleton

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How high is Mount Carleton?820 meters (2,690 feet)
2. What is the location?Mount Carleton Provincial Park, north-central New Brunswick, Canada
3. What is the geological age of rocks?Approximately 400 million years old
4. Why does Mount Carleton still stand after so many years?Its rock is very strong and has resisted erosion from wind, water, and glaciers, so it has stayed while the surrounding land has worn away.
5. What did people use Mount Carleton for before airplanes?People built a lookout hut on the top to watch for forest fires. They could see far into the northern forests and help fight fires early.

Monadnock: An isolated rock outcrop that has resisted erosion and stands prominently above the surrounding landscape.
Peneplain: A nearly flat, extensive land surface formed by prolonged erosion, later uplifted.
Cenozoic Era: The most recent geological era, spanning from about 66 million years ago to the present.
Triangulation: A surveying technique used to determine the location of a point by measuring angles to it from two known points.