Faults and Folds
A crack in the earth's surface created by tectonic forces.
What is a fault?
This park features the hottest, driest, lowest land in the US, and is located in the Mojave Desert.
What is Death Valley National Park?
This park is was made possible by donations from John D. Rockefeller, includes Precambrian crystalline bedrock, and features The Snake River.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
This park features a special type of palm tree, which also gives the park its name.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
Both Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks are located in this province.
What is Blue Ridge Physiographic Province?
This rock feature is directly above a fault.
What is a hanging wall?
This national park is known for having the largest (size) trees in the world.
What is Sequoia National Park?
This park is a part of the Basin and Range Province, includes a metamorphic fore complex of crystalline rocks, and features Lehman Cave.
What is Great Basin National Park?
Death Valley National Park mainly consists of these types of rocks.
What are crystalline metamorphic rocks?
In Shenandoah National Park, these types of rocks are abundant and were thrust faulted over Paleozoic sedimentary rocks at a cross section.
What are Precambrian Crystalline rocks?
This is the direction of movement of a strike-slip fault.
What is side to side?
These trees located in a national park in northwest California were discovered to be the tallest trees in the world.
What are Redwood trees?
The hot springs in Hot Springs National Park are unique in that they are missing this feature.
What are thermal deposits?
This mountain is the highest point in Sequoia National park.
What is Mt. Whitney?
Great Smoky Mountains National Park features this point, known to be the highest elevation point in Tennessee.
This type of fold is pointed upward in the shape of an arch, with the oldest rocks residing in the middle.
What is anticline?
This national park is known for being the smallest national park.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
This tree found in Great Basin National Park was believed to be the oldest tree in the world.
What is Bristlecone Pine?
This national park is known for having a very deep canyon and lacking roads and other development.
What is Kings Canyon National Park?
This feature of Great Smoky Mountain National Park causes a high rate of chemical weathering.
What is large amount of rain?
These are cracks in the earth's surface with NO displacement.
What are joints?
This national park is known for having the highest point in the lower 48 states.
What is Sequoia National Park?
In Death Valley National park, this landmark is known to be the lowest point in North America.
What is Badwater Basin?
This park includes a lot of accretionary terrane from many plate collisions.
What is Redwood National Park?
The Anakeesta formation consists mainly of this rock.
What is slate?