Redwood National Park
Redwood National Park is located in this U.S. state.
What is California?
This valley, a gateway to Grand Teton National Park, is a hotspot for skiing and wildlife watching.
What is Jackson Hole?
Shenandoah National Park is located in this eastern U.S. state.
What is Virginia?
The Smoky Mountains are part of this larger mountain range.
Appalachians
Is located in what state
Arkansas
Redwood national park is famous for what
There tall trees
What multi-billionaire is heavily responsible for the establishment of the park
John D. Rockefeller
Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks are located in what providence
what is the Blue ridge
Is world-renowned for large tracts of what kind of forest
deciduous and coniferous forests
Is smaller or greater than 10 square miles
smaller (9)
The park gets more than 60 inches of rain a year
Yes (80in)
The oldest rocks were formed by repeated sedimentation interbedded with lava flows in what time period
Precambrian
The fertile Shenandoah Valley is underlain by what kind of rock
Limestone
When was the national park established
1934
What raises the water temperature in the natural bath houses
Geysers
Redwood National Park is an accretionary terrane
True, Land added to continents during plate collisions
Grand Teton is a horn and is formed by how many aretes
3
What kind of bird would you expect to find on the cliffs in the park
what is peregrine falcons
A lot of the ridges and outcrops are made of Precambrian slate and schist, what are these outcrops called
Charlies Bunion
The springs at the park emerge through fractures in this type of rock, a common aquifer material.
what is sandstone
The tallest trees are called what
Hyperion
This is a natural lake that was originally gouged by glaciers in the valley floor sediments
Jackson Lake
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was instrumental in building this key infrastructure in Shenandoah National Park during the New Deal era.
What is Skyline Drive?
The biodiversity of the Great Smokies is partially due to its designation as this type of biological refuge during the last Ice Age.
What is a glacial refuge?
Why was Novaculite so commonly used by native people
for tools and weaponry