Great Smokey Mountains National Park
In which states are the Great Smokey Mountains located?
What is Tennessee and North Carolina?
What is Wyoming?
In which state is Joshua Tree located?
What is California?
In which state is Death Valley located?
What is California?
In which state is Great Basin National Park located?
What is Nevada?
What is the name of the park's scenic valley where Paleozoic limestone is exposed at the surface?
What is Cades Cove?
What is the name of the largest lake in Grand Teton National Park?
What is Jackson Lake?
What kind of intrusions are present within this park from early in the Cenozoic?
What are granite intrusions?
Death Valley is the ____, _____, and ____ land in the U.S.
What are flat, sediment filled valleys that are high deserts about five to seven thousand feet above sea level?
What is Basins?
What geologically altering event took place within the Great Smokey Mountains and surrounding areas in 2016?
What is Forest fires?
Which river meanders through the flat, wide valley at the base of the Grand Tetons?
What is Snake River?
What physiographic region is Joshua Tree located within?
What is Basin and Range Physiographic Province?
What physiographic region is Death Valley located within?
What is Basin and Range Physiographic Province?
What is it called when when water freezes in cracks of rocks, causing the rock to break apart?
What is frost wedging?
One of the parks most visited waterfalls which falls over Precambrian metasedimentary rock.
What is Laurel Falls?
Most recently, the landscape was sculpted by _______ _____ multiple times in the Cenozoic.
What is alpine glaciers?
The abundance of _____ ______ was due to higher rates of chemical weathering when the climate was more humid in the past.
What is spheroidal weathering?
What is the trace of the fault on the land surface or where you can see the fault, called?
What is a fault scarp?
The core of low-grade Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks faulted over each other, and there is extensive metamorphism, folding, and low-angle faulting (thrust faults).
What is Metamorphic Core Complex?
What 3 geological occurrences took place at this park during the Mesozoic?
What is uplift, block faulting, and erosion?
What billionaire's donations contributed to the establishment of Grand Teton?
What is John D. Rockefeller?
What is the name of the desert succulent plants found within the park?
What is ocotillo bush?
What forms at the base of the mountains due to the abrupt change in gradient as the streams hit the flat valley floor and deposit a bunch of sediment?
What is Alluvial fans?
What cave within the park was formed from groundwater dissolving the Paleozoic limestone?
What is Lehman Cave?