Vocabulary
California Mountains
Mountain Formation
History and Size of Mounains
Climate of National Parks
100
bending of rock?
what is folding
100
recognized and known for Joshua Tree
What is Joshua Tree
100
Great Basin National Park and Grand Teton National Park were formed by this process.
What is Glaciation.
100
This state is home to Grand Teton National Park
What is Wyoming
100
This climate ranges from desert to alpine due to elevation changes.
What is Great Basin National Park.
200
breaking of rock
What is faulting
200
hottest, driest, and lowest land in the USA
What is Death Valley
200
The erosion of Shenandoah National Park occured in these two eras.
What is the Cenozoic and Mesozoic Era.
200
Great Basin was established in this year.
What is 1986
200
This climate is cool and foggy.
What is Channel Islands National Park.
300
fractures along which no displacement has occurred
What is joints
300
has Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states
What is Sequoia and Kings Canyon
300
During this era, there was rifting of the supercontinent, volcanism, and basaltic lava flows in the Appalachians
What is the Precambrian Era.
300
Saguaro was established in this year.
What is 1994.
300
Rainy winters, dry summers, and fog make up this National Parks climate.
What is Redwoods.
400
the alignment of flat crystal flakes of a rock under pressure into parallel sheets
What is foliation
400
filled with seals, sea lions, island foxes, seabirds, and nine endangered plant species
What is Channel Islands
400
This mountain building process took place in the Paleozoic Era in both Big Bend National Park and Hot Springs National Park
What is Ouachita Orongeny
400
How many square miles is Hot Springs
What is 9 square miles.
400
85 inches of annual precipitation and 100 inches of snowfall at high elevations.
What is Smoky Mountains.
500
trace of fault on land surface, steeper face of slopes, lighter colored surfaces (fresh exposures), cut across stream erosion features
What is fault scarp
500
has trees that are up to 2,000 years old
What is Redwood
500
The uplift, erosion, and downcutting of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park occurred in this era.
What is the Cenozoic era.
500
Big Bend has these elevation ranges.
What is 2,000-7,800 ft.
500
Very humid climate in past lead to spheroidal weathering of inselberg.
What is Joshua Tree.
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