Caves and Reefs
An ecosystem that involves shallow salt water.
What is a Marine Zone?
This cools quickly and creates small crystals.
What is lava?
This is the term for subsurface land that is permanently frozen.
What is a Permafrost?
This is a type of fault folds upward like an arch.
What is an anticline?
The river flows through Mammoth Cave National Park.
What is the Green River?
"Mitey" mound shaped bodies on the floor of a cave.
What are stalagmites?
These are the 2 different types of volcanic eruptions.
What are Low and High viscosity?
This National Park has the tallest point in America.
What is Denali National Park?
This is when the hanging wall moves downward
What is a normal fault?
This term means "deposited in a lake".
What is lacustrine?
An impermeable layer that restricts or prevents groundwater movement.
What is an Aquitard?
A volcanic mud flow.
What is a lahar?
This is the area at the bottom of the glacier where melting occurs.
What is the Zone of wastage?
This is the National Park that is closest to the San Andreas Fault.
What is the Death Valley?
This National Park covers the largest land area in the US.
What is Wrangell - St. Elias National Park?
These are formed when carbon dioxide is released from groundwater when dripping into a cave opening.
What is a speleothem?
These are the 4 major types of volcanoes.
What are Shield, Cinder Cone, Stratovolcano, and Calderas?
Percentage of the Earth's land that is covered by glaciers.
What is 10%?
Thi is an example of a strike slip fault(lateral movement).
What is the San Andreas?
This is a vertical igneous intrusion.
What is a dike?
These are the 4 conditions that need to be present to form a coral reef.
What are warm water, salt water, shallow water, and clear water?
This is a description of a pumice, meaning "full of holes".
What is a vesicular?
This is the name of the most recent glacial episode in the midwest.
What is Wisconsin?
This type of fault includes vertical displacement.
What is a dip slip fault?
This is a horizontal igneous intrusion.
What is a Sill?