FAULTS
EXTREMES
NATIONAL PARKS LOCATION
ROCKS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
Faulting involves the breaking of rock but the bending of rock is this other crustal deformation.
What is folding?
100
General Sherman, the largest known tree in the world, is an example of one of these.
What is a giant sequoia?
100
The Great Basin National Park is located in this state.
What is Nevada?
100
This foliated rock is known for its alternating light and dark bands.
What is gneiss?
100
The type of strata that is originally on the bottom.
What is the older strata?
200
This 800 mile long California fault is a strike-slip fault, meaning movement is lateral.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
200
These are the tallest trees on earth, known to grow up to 367 feet high.
What are redwoods?
200
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is located in this state.
What is Colorado?
200
This is fine-grained metamorphosed shale, split into flat sheets.
What is slate?
200
The mountain building stage begins while accumulation occurs and causes folding and faulting.
What is the orogenic stage?
300
This is a mining term for a wall you climb on, or the lower portion of a fault block.
What is a footwall?
300
This national park is the hottest, driest, lowest land in the United States.
What is Death Valley?
300
The Big Bend National Park is located in this state.
What is Texas?
300
This is metamorphosed limestone or dolomite.
What is marble?
300
This type of rock underlies Cades Cove.
What is limestone?
400
This is the term for the trace of the fault on the surface of the earth.
What is the fault scarp?
400
This mountain in California is the highest point in the lower 48 states.
What is Mt. Whitney?
400
The Saguaro National Park is located in this state.
What is Arizona?
400
This was formed during the orogenic stage in Great Basin National Park.
What is the metamorphic core complex?
400
The rock directly above the fault is known as this.
What is the hanging wall?
500
It’s friction from faulting, not magma chambers, that heats the groundwater in this aptly named national park.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
500
At 6,643 feet, Clingman’s Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains is the highest point in this state.
What is Tennessee?
500
The Channel Islands National Park is located in this state.
What is California?
500
These two types of rocks make up the metamorphic core complex.
What is precambrian and paleozoic rocks?
500
In metamorphism a change from one form to another is generally caused by these 3 things.
What are temperature, pressure and chemically active fluids?
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