National Park Service
This organization protects and manages national parks in the United States.
What is the National Park Service?
This was the first national park in the United States.
What is Yellowstone?
This national park is located in Colorado.
What is the Rocky Mountain National Park?
This president created the National Park Service in 1916.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This word means a species has very few members left and may disappear.
What does endangered mean?
The job of the National Park Service is to protect and manage these places.
What are National Parks?
This is the most famous geyser in Yellowstone.
What is Old Faithful?
This national park is located in Utah.
What is Zion National Park?
This law allowed presidents to protect important natural or historic places.
What is the Antiquities Act?
This is the main difference between a geyser and a hot spring.
What is a geyser shoots water into the air while a hot spring does not?
This is something the National Park Service does NOT do: build cities, protect parks, run schools, or manage monuments.
What is build cities?
This type of natural feature shoots hot water into the air.
What is a geyser?
What is Acadia National Park?
This famous nature writer helped convince Americans to protect wilderness.
Who is John Muir?
People began to believe nature should be protected because they saw its beauty and importance.
Why should nature be protected?
The National Park Service protects nature so people can do this in the parks.
What is visit or enjoy them?
This type of feature has hot water but does NOT shoot into the air.
What is a hot spring?
This national park sits on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
People like this helped others see the beauty of nature through paintings and stories.
Who are writers and artists?
This is one reason feeding animals in national parks is not allowed.
What is it can harm animals or make them dangerous?
The National Park Service protects parks for people today and for these people in the future.
Who are future generations?
Yellowstone is located mostly in this state.
What is Wyoming?
This state is NOT part of Yellowstone National Park: Montana, Idaho, Colorado, or Wyoming.
What is Colorado?
These people spoke up to protect wild lands in the United States.
Who are conservationists?
National parks are protected so people in the future can enjoy them.
Why are national parks important?