National Parks
This California national park, located in the Basin and Range Physiographic Province, is home to the Joshua Tree, a unique type of palm that thrives in the desert region of the state.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
This river meanders through the flat, wide valley at the base of the Grand Tetons.
What is Snake River?
Redwood National Park, home of the world’s tallest trees and accretionary terrain, is located on the coast of this state.
What is California?
In this type of fold, rocks are folded upward in an arch, with the oldest rocks in the middle of this arch pattern, and the rocks get younger as you move away from the fold axis.
What is anticline?
When sedimentary limestone is buried deep, exposed to extreme heat and pressure, it becomes denser and turns into this hard crystalline metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
This Arkansas national park is the smallest national park in the US, only 9 square miles.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
Sequoia National Park is home to this mountain, which is the highest mountain in the lower 48 states.
What is Mt. Whitney?
The fault block mountains, known as the Grand Tetons, and Jackson Lake are located in this state.
What is Wyoming?
A type of fold, exposed along I-68 in Maryland, where rocks are folded downward in a trough pattern, with the youngest rocks in the middle of the fold.
What is syncline?
When slate, a low-grade foliated metamorphic rock, is subjected to increased heat and pressure, it transforms into this medium-high-grade metamorphic rock that displays mica crystals visible to the naked eye.
What is schist?
This is the most visited national park in the United States, featuring Clingman’s Dome, the highest point in Tennessee.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
Great Basin National Park once housed the oldest tree in the world, 5,000 years old, that was this type of conifer.
What is Bristlecone Pine?
This state is home to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and where you will find giant Sequoia trees and Crystal Cave.
What is California?
A type of fault, where there is lateral movement, is most common at a transform boundary, such as those found at the bottom of the ocean.
What is a strike-slip fault?
This rock is a slightly metamorphosed chert and can be found in Hot Springs National Park.
What is novaculite?
This national park is located in the Basin and Range Physiographic Province in remote eastern Nevada.
What is Great Basin National Park?
In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, you will find this flat, fertile valley where settlers once lived.
What is Cades Cove?
Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Mountains, which contain the highest mountains in the Appalachians, are located in this state.
What is Virginia?
This specific type of fault created national parks such as Grand Teton and Death Valley, where the hanging wall falls down relative to the footwall.
What is a normal fault?
Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to this sedimentary rock that weathered into fertile soil, attracting settlers.
What is limestone?
This California national park is located in the Mojave Desert, with the hottest, driest, and lowest point in the US, Badwater Basin.
What is Death Valley National Park?
Great Basin National Park is where you will find this cave with a horizontal roof and floor.
What is Lehman Cave?
Great Basin National Park is located in the remote eastern part of this state, where the climate ranges from desert to alpine due to elevation changes.
What is Nevada?
This type of fault created the rugged mountains of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where Precambrian crystalline rocks were pushed up over younger Paleozoic sedimentary rocks.
What is a thrust fault?
The Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, home to Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, are composed of this type of rock.
What is granite?