National Parks
Due to these acts, nearly every national park has a grotesque, violent backstory
What are forced removals and genocide
The process by which rocks
are broken down into
smaller pieces.
What is weathering
Volcanoes occur in these places
What are convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and hot spots
This percentage of Earth's water is fresh water
What is 2.5%
This is a new scientific discipline that explores
the physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes and reactions that govern the composition of, and changes to, the natural environment.
What is biogeochemistry
The first park to preserve culture in 1906
What is the Mesa Verde National Park
The two types of weathering
What are physical weathering and chemical weathering
The 3 stages of a volcano
What are active, dormant, and extinct
An area around a river that is subject to flooding
What is a floodplain
The process by which organisms acquire energy
from light
What is photosynthesis
The Cuyahoga River, once one of the most
polluted rivers in the US, has caught fire a
total of BLANK times dating back to 1868
What is 13 times
The creatures that can cause physical weathering by moving rock fragments.
What are burrowing creatures
Volcanic eruptions are caused by
pressure in
What are magma chambers
The three types of freshwater wetlands that exist
What are marshes, swamps, and bogs
The process that rapidly and inexpensively copies genes and determines their unique chemical sequences
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction, or PCR
Densest display of ‘hoodoos’ in the world are found here
What is the Bryce Canyon National Park
Underwater sink holes that connect to a larger
body of water
What are blue holes
The longest lasting effect of volcanism
An aquifer whose upper water surface
is the water table and is usually close to Earth's surface
What is an unconfined aquifer
This was very successful
in restoring the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park
What is wolf reintroduction
The amount of passageways within Mammoth Cave
What is five levels
Weathering rates are (usually) the
BLANK of formation order
What is opposite
Mount Vesuvius, the most widely
known volcano on Earth, is an
active volcano in southern Italy. It originated about this many years ago
What is about 200,000 years ago
These form where several cirques
surround a single high mountain
leaving a sharp pyramid-like peak
What are horns
This bacteriologist sampled many hydrothermal
features at Yellowstone and found
microbes in each one, including a
previously unknown species that
they named thermus aquaticus
Who is Thomas Brock