National Parks
This National Park is known to have the tallest trees in the world in which the park is named after
what is Redwood National park?
Contains Great Basin, Joshua Tree, and Death Valley National Parks
what is Basin and Range Province?
Fractures in the crust where movement has occurred and is often the cause of most earthquakes
what is a fault?
The elevation range of Yosemite National Park
What is 2,500-above 13,000 ft
The three forms of erosion by glaciers
What is glacier, erratic, and plucking?
This National Park is located along the Blue Ridge Mountains
what is Shenandoah National Park?
This coastal strike-slip fault runs from San Francisco to Los Angeles
What is the San Andreas fault?
Rocks folded upward in arch where oldest rocks are found in the center
what is anticline?
This year was when Glacier Bay in Alaska established as a National Park
What is the year 1980?
These trees located in Great Basin National Park are thought to be the oldest trees in the world
What are bristlecone pines?
This Californian National park contains the hottest, driest, and lowest land in the United States
What is Death Valley National Park?
This is the second-largest lake in Grand Tetons National Park and was formed by a glacier creating a moraine dam
What is Jenny Lake?
The first stage of major mountain belt building where thick sedimentary rock or volcanic rock are deposited
what is the accumulation stage?
This mountain is the highest point in the lower 48 states, located in Sequoia National Park
What is Mt. Whitney
Located in Joshua Tree National park, the name of these islands of Cenozoic granite translates to “Island Mountain”
What is Inselberg?
This national park located in Arkansas has very few thermal deposits due to low amount of dissolved solids in groundwater
What is Hot Springs National Park?
This cave located in Great Basin National Park contains a roof and floor that are nearly horizontal
What is Lehman Cave?
This is the bottom of glacier, or lower latitudes where meting exceeds accumulation
What is the zone of wastage?
This is the result of intense tectonic compression during the Paleozoic Era
What is Complex folding and thrust faulting
This biologic sedimentary rock formed in deep ocean, silica rich (chalcedony) formed by accumulations of siliceous plankton skeletons
What is chert
The state is home to the Rocky Mountains
What is Colorado?
This river is in broad valley west of Shenandoah National Park
What is the Shenandoah River
This is a general term for glacial deposits
What is Glacial Drift?
This fault is a lateral movement
Strike-slip fault
This slightly metamorphosed chert with cryptocrystalline structure
Novaculite