National Parks
Rocks
Mountain Formation
Faults
Folds
100
Established in 1929, this scenic national park is located just south of Yellowstone.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
100
Rocks of this type change from one form to another due to by temperature, pressure, and chemically active fluids.
What are metamorphic rocks?
100
This is a stable, interior portion of continent, usually very old crystalline rocks.
What is a craton?
100
These are fractures in the earth’s crust and are responsible for most earthquakes.
What are faults?
100
A large, downward bulging fold.
What is a basin?
200
The Snake River runs through this national park.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
200
Slate, schist, and gneiss are examples of this sub-category of metamorphic rocks.
What are foliated metamorphic rocks?
200
This is the first stage of major mountain building, where great thickness of sedimentary or volcanic rock is deposited.
What is the Accumulation Stage?
200
These are the three types of faults.
What is normal, reverse and strike-slip?
200
A large, upwardly bulging fold.
What is a dome?
300
This national park has the hottest, driest, and lowest land in the US.
What is Death Valley National Park?
300
Quartzite and marble are examples of this sub-category of metamorphic rocks.
What are non-foliated metamorphic rocks?
300
This is the second stage of major mountain building, also known as the mountain building stage, which includes folding and faulting.
What is the Orogenic Stage?
300
This occurs when the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall from compressional forces pushing them together.
What is reverse faulting?
300
Rocks that are folded upwards in an arch.
What is an anticline?
400
This national park is known for cactus, mesquite, palo verde, and metamorphic rocks.
What is Saguaro National Park?
400
This is the most common type of rock in Sequoia National Park.
What is granite?
400
This occurs when a load is imposed on or removed from the lithosphere.
What is isostatic rebound?
400
What type of fault would you be expected to find in the Great Basin National Park?
What are normal faults?
400
Rocks that are folded downward in a trough.
What is a syncline?
500
This national park is famous around the world for large tracts of deciduous and coniferous forests.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
500
This type of rock is metamorphosed limestone or dolomite.
What is marble?
500
The addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass, usually by intense plate collisions.
What is tectonic accretion?
500
This type of faulting is responsible for the geologic formation of Grand Teton National Park.
What is block faulting?
500
One side of rock layers folded down that is not very common, but present in Colorado Plateau.
What is a monocline?
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