Park Features
Folds
Faults
National Parks
Miscellaneous
100

Fractures in surface with no displacement

Joints

100

The bending of a rock

Folding

100

The breaking of a rock

Faulting

100

Hottest and driest National Park

Death Valley

100

Tree once thought was the oldest in the world

Bristlecone Pine

200

glacially carved area with flat bottom and steep sides

U-Shape Valley

200

Arch shaped fold

Anticline

200

Lateral plate movement

Strike-Slip

200

Park with tallest trees on Earth

Redwood

200

Glacier type that formed the Grand Tetons

Cirque glacier

300

flat valleys in high deserts

Basins

300

Downward fold

Syncline

300

Forces pull plates away

Normal

300

Smallest National Park

Hot Springs

300

Mt. Whitney location

Sequoia National Park

400

heated water source

Hot Spring

400

Buckle in Earth's crust with one limb of fold

Monocline

400

Forces push plates together

Reverse and Thrust

400

Park with highest point in lower 48 states

Sequoia

400

gallons of Hot Spring water flowing daily

850,000

500

Palm trees growing in desert regions

Joshua Trees

500

Large scale folds

Domes and Basins
500

Rock directly below the fault

Footwall

500

Park that John D. Rockefeller donated to

Grand Tetons

500

Temperature Death Valley can reach

134 degrees Farenheit