PARK BASICS
This was the first National Park in the world.
Yellowstone
These people lived there for 11,000 years.
Native Americans
Underground hot rock plume.
Hot Spot
Largest land mammal in the park
The Bison
Long cold season
Winter
The year Yellowstone was established.
1872
Explorer who reported geysers.
John Colter
Collapsed volcanic crater
Caldera
Predator reintroduced in 1995
The WOLF
Largest high elevation Lake
Yellowstone Lake
State with the most parkland.
Wyoming.
The Expedition that proposed the park
Washford-Langford-Doane Expedition
The current Caldera formed how many years ago
640,000 years
Ecological chain reaction
Trophic Cascade
Annual Snowfall
150 inches.
Park size (acres)
2.2 million
President who created the park.
U.S. Grant
Erupting hot spring.
Geyser
A species reduced by wolves
ELK
Number of small quakes per year.
1,000 to 3,000
Contains more than half of the world's what ?
Geysers
Traded Volcanic Glass is called
Obsidian
Heat loving microbes.
Thermophiles
Ecosystem name
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Organization that monitors seismic Activity
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
YVO