Mount Garibaldi

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

Name:

Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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

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 Garibaldi?2,678 meters (8,786 feet)
2. What is the location?Garibaldi Ranges, Pacific Ranges, Southwestern British Columbia, Canada
3. What is the indigenous name?Nch'ḵay̓
4. Why is it called Mount Garibaldi?In 1860, Captain George Henry Richards named the mountain after Giuseppe Garibaldi, an important Italian leader who helped unify Italy.
5. How did Mount Garibaldi form?The mountain grew over 260,000 years, with big eruptions like Atwell Peak 13,000 years ago and later growth from Dalton Dome and Opal Cone. These events shaped its current shape.

Stratovolcano: A tall, conical volcano built up by many layers of hardened lava, ash, and rock.
Dacite: A volcanic rock that is intermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite.
Glacier: A large, perennial accumulation of crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and liquid water that originates on land and, because of its greater mass, moves downslope.
Névé: A perennial snow area at the head of a glacier, which is the source of the glacier.