Fantastic Flora!
These trees populate a national park named for them. This park is located in California and receives very little rain. These trees resemble trees but are actually large yucca plants in the agave family.
What are Joshua Trees
These natural disasters typically occur along fault lines where plate movement is occurring.
What are Earthquakes?
This means the “bending of rock”
What is Folding?
The dew and fog atop the mountains gives the Smokies Mountains its name and their tops this nickname.
What is Chimney Tops?
Measuring on 9 square miles I am the smallest National Park.
What is Hot springs National Park?
These trees thrive in a park named for them. They are the tallest trees on earth and can live for up to 2,000 years. They thrive in foggy environments, like the ones found in Northern California.
What are Redwoods
This is the actual surface of a fault in a tectonic plate.
What is a Fault Plane?
This type of biologic sedimentary rock is also called flint
What is Chert?
This US president officially dedicated the park in 1940.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This is the highest point in Hot Springs National Park at 1405 feet.
What is Music Mountain?
In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, these trees are declining in population. Hardwoods are beginning to replace these trees because they are more healthy and can survive more pollution, warmer temperatures, and invasive bugs more easily.(Ex. Frasier Firs and Hemlocks)
What are Deciduous Trees?
When rocks fold in this pattern, an arch forms. The oldest rocks are in the center along the fold axis.
What is Anticline?
In Joshua Tree national park, this formation resembles a mountainous island made of rock. It has a German name as well.
What is Inselberg?
This valley is the most popular autotrail in the Smokies and visited by around 5 million people per year.
What is Cades Cove?
Temperatures of the water in Hot Springs National Park can reach as high as this.
What is 147 degrees?
The rock that this patch of vegetation is precambrian submarine lava flow. It metamorphosed into a greenstone. It’s rich in minerals so it can support limited farming and it’s located in Shenandoah National Park.
What is Big Meadow?
When rocks fold in this pattern, a trough or large divot forms in the earth’s surface. The youngest rocks are in the center, along the fold axis.
What is Syncline?
With layers of different minerals, I am this texture of metamorphic rock.
What is Foliated?
At a height of 6,643 feet this is the highest peak in the Smokies.
Hot Springs National Park was dedicated by Warren G. Harding in this year.
What is 1921?
This is the name of the biggest tree known to man. It is 275 feet tall and 36 feet in diameter. It is located in Sequoia National Park and named after a Civil War General.
What is General Sherman?
A type of reverse fault, but at a low angle.
What is a Thrust Fault?
What is Precambrian?
The native Cherokee People gave this name and phrase to the fog and mist atop the mountains of the mountains.
What is The Land of Blue Smoke?
Hot Springs National Park was discovered first in 1804 by these two famous explorers sent by President Thomas Jefferson.
Who are Lewis and Clark?