Vocabulary
Examples
Geology
Fun Facts
National Park Locations
100

What is folding?

What is The bending of rocks?

100

Where are four states that have Tectonic Accretion?

What is California, Oregon, Washington, and Maine?

100

What is Accretionary Terrane and which state is it common in?

What is Land added to continents during plate collisions, very common in California?

100

Where is the hottest, driest, lowest land in the US located?

What is Death Valley National Park?

100

Where is Grand Teton National Park?

What is Wyoming?

200

What is faulting?

What is The breaking of rock with some sort of displacement?

200

What are the three stages of mountain building?

What is Accumulation Stage, Orogenic Stage, and Crustal Extension? 

200

What National Park does not have many rocks exposed due to lush vegetation?

What is Shenandoah National Park?

200

What is The Snake River?

What is A river that meanders through the flat, wide, valley at the base of the Grand Tetons?

200

Where is Great Basin National Park?

What is Nevada?

300

What is Tectonic Accretion? 

What is The addition of exotic terranes to a continental land mass which is usually caused by intense plate collisions?

300

What are the three examples of folding?

What is Anticline, Syncline, and Monocline?

300

What National Park has marine and near shore deposition of sedimentary rocks in the Paleozoic?

What is Great Basin National Park?

300

Where was the oldest tree, Bristlecone Pine (that was over 5,000 years old) located?

What is Great Basin National Park?

300

Where is Joshua Tree National Park?

What is California?

400

What is a craton?

What is The stable interior portion of a continent, usually very old crystalline rocks?

400

What are the three types of faulting?

What is Strike-Slip, Dip-Slip, and Normal Faulting?

400

What National Park has Friction along faults and deep geothermal gradient that heats up groundwater along faults?

What is Hot Springs National Park?

400

Where is the highest point in the lower 48 states located?

What is Sequoia National Park?

400

Where is Hot Springs National Park?

What is Arkansas?

500

What are joints?

What is Fractures or cracks in the earth's surface at which there is no displacement? 

500

What are two National Parks that have joints?

What is Arches and Bryce Canyon National Park?

500

What National Park has several orogenies folded, faulted, and metamorphosed rocks in the Paleozoic?

What is The Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

500

Where are the highest trees on earth located (up to 379 feet high)? 

What is Redwood National Park in Northwest California?

500

Where is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

What is Tennessee and North Carolina?