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Unique Park Features
Geology
Age
Glaciars
Mountain Building
100
The most noted geological structure in the Grand Tetons

What is the fault block mutants?

100

Has interior drainage with salt flats

What is Death Valley National Park?

100

This park was created in 1929 from the generous donation of the world's first billionaire

What is Grand Teton National Park?

100

Contains falling ice glacier

What is the Grand Tetons National Park?

100

The first stage of major mountain building

What is the accumulation stage?

200

The oldest tree in the world was believed to be here

What is a bristlecone pine at Great Basin National Park?

200
Located in the Basin and Range Physiographic Province

What is Joshua Tree National Park?

200

This remote national park was established in 1986

What is Great Basin National Park?

200

Used to be several cirque glaciers at this park, but now there are only remnants

What is the Great Basin National Park?

200

The second stage of major mountain building

What is the orogenic stage?

300

The hottest, driest, and lowest land in the US

What is Death Valley?

300

These two parks are located in the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province

What are the Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks?

300

This park, which is close to Hollywood, was established in 1994

What is Josue Tree National Park

300

These parks contain a U-shaped valley that was carved by an alpine glacier

What are Sequoia and Kings National Parks?

300

The third stage of major mountain building

What is crustal extension, block faulting, and uplift?

400

The tallest trees on earth are located here

What is Redwood National Park?

400
Contains tilted beds of novaculite

What is Hot Springs National Park?

400

This park, which contains the tallest tree in the world, was established in 1968

What is Redwood National Park

400

Many of the parks in this module underwent glaciation in this era

What is the Cenozoic era?

400

The stable, interior portion of a continent

What is the craton?

500

Mount Whitney is located here

What is Sequoia National Park?

500

Glaciated granite is present at all three of these national parks

What is Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Park?

500

This eastern national park was established in 1934

What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

500

Glaciers cause

What is weathering and erosion?

500
The rocks in earth's crust change shape in two ways

What is folding and faulting?