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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
100
This park is located along the Blue Ridge Mountains
What is Shenandoah NP?
100
Bending of rock
What is folding?
100
The breaking of rock
What is a fault?
100
This park is home to the oldest trees on earth
What is Great Basin NP?
100
The Smoky Mountains were established as a National Park in this year
What is 1934?
200
This park has the lowest elevation in the US
What is Death Valley NP?
200
Rocks folded in an arch
What is anticline?
200
Rock directly above the fault
What is a hanging wall?
200
This park is home to Inselberg
What is Joshua Tree NP?
200
This is the highest point in Tennessee
What is Clingman's Dome?
300
The Snake River runs through this park
What is Grand Teton NP?
300
Rocks folded in a trough
What is syncline?
300
The actual surface of the fault
What is the fault plane?
300
This park contains the highest point in the lower 48 states
What is Sequoia NP?
300
Most uplift, erosion, and metamorphism occurred in this time period
What is the Precambrian Era?
400
This park has both an East and West portion
What is Saguaro NP?
400
Type of fold observed in the waterpocket fold of Capitol Reef NP
What is monocline?
400
Lateral movement observed in the San Andreas Fault
What is a strike-slip fault?
400
This park has many caliche towers of former tree trunks
What is Channel Islands NP?
400
This type of rock (schist and slate) is found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
What is metamorphic rock?
500
This park contains the tallest trees on earth
What is Redwood NP?
500
Downward bulging folds
What is a basin?
500
A low angle reverse fault
What is a thrust fault?
500
This park has ~850,000 gallons of hot water flowing from thermal springs every day
What is Hot Springs NP?
500
This type of rock underlies Cades Cove
What is Limestone?