U.S. National Parks
This park contains the hottest, driest and lowest land in the U.S.
What is Death Valley National Park
This formation is an indication of land rising faster than the sea level with an emergent coastline.
What are sea stacks
This is a strike slip fault located in Death Valley National Park.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This is a biological sedimentary rock formed in the deep ocean silica-rich formed by plankton skeletons.
What is Chert?
This flows between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Valley and Ridge Province.
This park experienced a lot of spheroidal weathering.
What is Joshua Tree National Park
The most significant geologic structure is the fault block mountains that are the name of this national park.
What are the Grand Tetons?
Great Basin National Park was once home to the oldest tree in the world.
What is a Bristlecone Pine?
This is a mix of diverse materials scraped off the top of the subducting oceanic plate.
What is Mélange?
This runs through a flat large valley at the base of the Grand Tetons.
What is the Snake River?
This is the smallest national park at only 9 square miles.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
This is the highest point in the lower 48 states and has slabs of exfoliated granite.
What is Mt. Whitney in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks?
This famous feature inspired the establishment of Yellowstone as the world's first national park in 1872.
What is Old Faithful Geyser?
This rock has enough minerals in it to support limited farming.
What is Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park?
This is the lowest point in North America.
What is Bad water Basin in Death Valley National Park?
This area does not have many rocks exposed due to lush vegetation.
What is Shenandoah National Park?
Surround the dunes of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
What is Sangre de Cristo Mountains?
Standing pillars of rock with interesting shapes due to differential erosion located in Bryce Canyon National Park.
What are Hoodoos?
The Precambrian core complex in Joshua Tree National Park is made of mainly of this.
What are Crystalline rocks?
This body of water continues to carve and shape Zion National Park.
What is the Virgin River?
High amounts of rainfall here cause a high rate of chemical weathering.
What is The Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
Largest mountain in the world.
What is Mauna Loa?
There are joints (or cracks without any movement) running through this sandstone which forms a tabular rock formation located in Arches National Park.
What are Vertical Fins?
These rocks are formed from molten material.
What are Igneous rocks?
This body of water inspired the name of the national park that it is located within.
What is Crater Lake?