Fun Facts
The National Park known for hot springs and bath houses.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
The first stage of major mountain building starts when great thicknesses of sedimentary rocks and/or volcanic rocks are deposited.
What is the accumulation stage?
This National Park is 120 square miles.
What is the Great Basin?
The Hot Springs
What is Arkansas?
Made of Precambrian slate and schist, they are foliated metamorphic rocks that are more resistant to erosion than sedimentary rocks.
What is Charlies Bunion?
The hottest, driest, and lowest land is here.
What is the Death Valley National Park?
The bending of rock.
What are folds?
In total, the parks are 1,351 square miles.
What is the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
The Death Valley
Laurel Falls is an example of this feature, which the Great Smokey Mountains has a few of.
What are waterfalls?
Established as a National Park in 1929, this park is home to Jackson Lake and Snake River Valley.
What is the Grand Teton National Park?
The breaking displacement of rock.
What are faults?
The National Park is 1,239 square miles.
What is Joshua Tree?
The Joshua Tree
What is California?
The foliated metamorphic rock with planes of weakness parallel to zones called slaty cleavage.
What is Anakeesta Slate?
The highest point in the lower 48 states is located in this National Park.
What is the Sequoia National Park?
The fractures or cracks in the earth’s surface at where there is no displacement.
What are joints?
The National Park is 307 square miles.
What is the Shenandoah National Park?
The Great Smoky Mountains
What is Tennessee and North Carolina?
Where Paleozoic limestone is exposed at the surface. This softer sedimentary rock weathers more easily than surrounding Precambrian crystalline rock.
What is Cades Cove?
A rancher who moved to Nevada from Ohio discovered the Lehman cave.
Who is Absalom Lehman?
The stable, interior portion of the continent, usually very old crystalline rocks.
What is craton?
The National Park is 172 square miles.
The Shenandoah National Park
What is Virginia?
Several cycles of mountain building happened in the Paleozoic Era. Then, uplift, block faulting, and erosion happened in this era next.
What is the Mesozoic Era?