Interesting Facts
Rocks and How They Formed
Landforms
Geologic History
Fossils
100
What is the number of stone bridges, streams, and cliffs that are featured in Acadia National Park?
What is 17 stone bridges, streams, and cliffs
100
What is a rock that is pink because of the traces of feldspar that is contains?
What is Cadillac Granite
100
What is the tallest mountain on the Eastern coast that belongs in Acadia National Park?
What is the Cadillac Mountain
100
How did the Cadillac Mountains form?
What is through tectonic and volcanic forces
100
Is there typically alot of fossils in Acadia National Park?
What is no.
200
What is the tallest mountain in Acadia National Park? This mountain is also the tallest mountain that lies on the Eastern Coast.
What is the Cadillac Mountain
200
What is a rock formed form flowing lava?
What is Dark Basalt Dike
200
What is the force that smoothed out the Cadillac Mountains?
What is Glaciers
200
What caused the Cadillac Mountains to be so well rounded?
What is glaciers
200
What is a type of fossil you can find in the park?
What is Miocene fossils
300
What is the object that is scattered all over Acadia National Park in no particular order?
What is shipwrecks
300
What is a metamorphic rock that has bands of gray, white quartz, feldspar, and green chlorite
What is Ellsworth schist
300
What is the landform that has a direct connection to the state Florida?(Hint: What type of landform is Florida?)
What is Schodic Point
300
How did the Porcupine Islands form based on the information on the Graphic Organizer?
What is through tectonic and volcanic forces
300
Where are some fossils found and why are they important?
What is they are found in the Agate Fossils Bed and they marked an important evolution in mammals.
400
What is the amount of greenhouse gases that have been eliminated by using propane powered buses (in tons)?
What is 6,444 tons
400
How is Cadillac Granite formed?
What is when volcanoes erupted and cooled.
400
What is a potential tourist site based on the information on the Graphic Organizer?
What is Isle au Haut
400
What is one form of erosion that could have occured to the Cadillac Mountains? (Hint: Glaciers)
What is plucking
400
What can you infer about the type of rock in the Agate Fossil Beds?
What is Sedimentary rocks
500
What is the disaster that occured in 1947 and how many acres of Mount Desert Island was affected?
What is a Fire; 17,188 acres
500
What is the rock that mostly consists of iron? How is it formed?
What is Gabbrois; forms by cooling under the Earth's surface
500
What is the vegetation on the Porcupine Islands?
What is everglade forests
500
If Cadillac granite formed from lava cooling, what can you infer from the Cadillac Mountain? (This isnt on the Graphic Organizer)
What is a volcano
500
Why do you think Acadia National Park doesn't have alot of fossils?(Use information from other sections)
What is it has alot of mountains and alot of igneous rocks that don't contain fossils.
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