Module 6 General Vocabulary
This is the stable, interior portion of a continent.
What is the craton?
Joshua Tree is located in this physiographic province.
What is the Basin and Range Physiographic Province?
This river flows through Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
What is Snake River?
Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming) become established in this year.
When is 1929?
This park was established in 1935 in Virginia along the Blue Ridge mountains.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
This is the difference between the folding and faulting of rock.
What is folding is the bending of rock and faulting is the breaking displacement of rocks?
Death Valley is know for these three characteristics, ending in “est”.
What are hottest, driest, and lowest land in the U.S.?
This National Park in Nevada went through alpine glaciation in the Cenozoic Era.
What is Great Basin National Park?
This is the second largest lake at Grand Teton National Park.
What is Jenny lake?
Mountain building and metamorphism that resulted in the Great Smoky and Shenandoah National Parks occurred in this time period.
What is the Precambrian Era?
A syncline curve faces this direction.
What is up, towards the sky?
This is the dominant rock type in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
What is granite?
Longs Peak is the highest point in this Colorado National Park.
What is Rocky Mountain National Park?
These are present at Grand Teton National Park and show that Alpine Glaciation occurred.
What are U-shaped valley, aerates, one horn, and cirque glaciers?
This physiographic province is where the highest mountains in the Appalachian mountain range can be found.
What is Blue Ridge Physiographic Province?
These are fractures or cracking in the Earth's surface where there is no displacement like at Arches or Bryce Canyon.
What are joints?
This national park has the tallest tree in the world, discovered in 2006.
What is Redwood National Park?
This was the mountain building event in the Cenozoic Era that formed Grand Teton’s landscape.
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
Landscapes were sculpted by Alpine Glaciers in this geologic era.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
The Anakeesta slate in Great Smoky National Park is comprised of this type of metamorphic rock.
What is slate?
These are the three stages of major mountain building.
What are the Accumulation stage, Orogenic stage, and Crustal extension (block faulting and uplift) stage?
During this geological era, Redwood National Park experienced coastal erosion and tectonic events.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
This Nevada National Park has large areas of internal drainage.
What is Great Basin National Park?
This kind of rock is exposed in the bedrock of Grand Teton National Park.
What is Precambrian crystalline rock?
This is the Peak elevation of the highest point in Tennessee, Clingman’s Dome, which is apart of the Great Smoky National Park.
What is 6,643 feet?