Grand Tetons
park that is just north of here
What is Yellowstone?
about halfway between Mammoth Mountain and Death Valley
what is Lone Pine
the highest point in the lower 48 states
What is Mt.Whitney?
95 degrees to 147 degrees
the estimated amount of visitors in 2021
what is 14 million?
River at the base of the mountains
What is The Snake River?
Deposition of sediments in Death Valley in the Cenozoic caused these.
What is alluvial fans and evaporites?
largest, most massive, trees
What are Sequoia (General Sherman)?
the hot springs were used for this in the 1800s
What are bathhouses?
year established to be a national park
what is 1934?
Weathering, erosion, and glaciation happened in this era
What is the Cenozoic era?
intrusion of granite batholiths and thrust faulting in this era
What is the Mesozoic era
Stream erosion, earthquakes, continued uplift in this era
What is the Cenozoic era?
The number of hot springs at this national park.
what is 47?
World renowned for large tracts of which forest
what are deciduous and coniferous forests?
Most of the bedrock exposed in the Grand Teton Mountains is this type of rock
What are Precambrian crystalline rocks?
Due to the hot, dry climate, abundance of sand, and high wind caused these
What are sand dunes?
the granite indications that ice was flowing down the valley are called
What are striations?
layer sedimentary rock deposited in the Paleozoic Era.
what is bedrock?
high rate of chemical weathering happen because of this
what is high amounts of rain
Classified as a normal --hanging wall down
What is the fault block mountains
is the lowest point in North America
What is Badwater Basin?
the top of Mt. Whitney which has slabs of this rock.
what is exfoliated granite?
era of the Ouachita Orogeny
what is the Paleozoic?
Paleozoic limestone is exposed at the surface becomes this famous place within the park
What is Cades Cove?