National Parks
What was the first national park?
Yellowstone
What is the fastest growing plant?
Bamboo, which can grow up to 3 feet in 1 day!
What animal is on the california state flag?
Grizzly bear
What is the approximate standard atmospheric pressure at sea level, expressed in millibars?
1,013.25 millibars.
What is the mountain with the highest elevation in the world?
Mt. Everest
Where was the hottest temperature in the world recorded?
Death Valley
What are the California state trees? (theres 2)
Coastal redwood and giant sequoia
What shape is a goat/sheeps pupil?
a rectangle
What is the standard shelter someone sleeps in when camping? made from a sort of cloth and poles?
A tent
Worlds largest coral reef?
The great barrier reef
What is the most visited national park in the US? (this may not be the one you expect!)
The Great Smoky Mountains
what percent of water is watermelon? (in terms of weight, a water melon is ___% water)
91-92%
What is the national animal of scotland?
The unicorn
What is the name for the process by which water vapor turns into liquid droplets on a tent's interior?
Condensation.
Which river carved the grand canyon?
The colorado river
How many national parks are there in the US?
63
How many flowers is a single sunflower?
1000-2000 (a sunflower is actually a collecteion of 1-2k smaller flowers making up the sunflower head, called florettes!)
what type of crab is able to scare off potential predators by creating a growl via teeth located in its stomach?
The ghost crab
What is the name of the phenomenon in which a person loses body heat faster because wind removes the thin layer of warm air near their skin?
Wind chill.
Which lake in Tanzania is famous for its highly alkaline water and red coloration caused partly by salt-loving microorganisms?
Lake Natron.
What is the largets national park?
Wrangall-St. Elias national park
The spiciest pepper, pepper X, was made and bred where?
Fort Mill, South Carolina
Closely related to the llama, what is the name of the wild camelid native to South America that's young are called “chulengos?” The only other wild camelid native to South America is the vicuña.
Guanaco
In advanced wilderness navigation, if a map uses a Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid, what is the name of the angular difference between grid north and geodetic true north at a given location?
Grid convergence (also called meridian convergence).
Which Canadian national park contains the Burgess Shale, a world-famous fossil deposit preserving soft-bodied marine organisms from the Cambrian Period, around 508 million years ago?
Yoho National Park in British Columbia.