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National Parks of America Flashcards

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First national park
Many geothermal areas
Located in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana

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Yellowstone

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Protects the Giant Forest
General Sherman, the world’s tallest tree
Over 240 caves
Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in Lower 48
Located in California

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Sequoia

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Home to Half Dome and El Capitan
Tallest waterfall in North America
Located in California

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Yosemite

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Home to an active volcano
Has the largest glacier in the lower 48
Located in Washington

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Mount Rainier

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Home to the deepest lake in the United States
On Mt. Mazama
Located in Oregon

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Crater Lake

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Home to the world’s densest cave system
Home to black-footed ferrets
Located in South Dakota

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Wind Cave

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Home to over 4,000 archaeological sites of the Puebloan people
Located in Colorado

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Mesa Verde

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Home to 26 glaciers and 130 named lakes

Located in Montana

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Glacier

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Home to over 150 lakes including Bear Lake
Home to Longs Peak
Located in Colorado

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Rocky Mountain

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Home to a volcano on Maui
Home to more endangered species than any other National Park in America
Located in Hawaii

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Haleakalā

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Home to Kīlauea and Mauna Loa

Located in Hawaii

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Hawaii Volcanoes

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Home to Lassen Peak, the largest plug dome volcano on Earth
Has an example of all 4 types of volcano
Located in California

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Lassen Volcanic

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Home to Mt. McKinley

Located in Alaska

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Denali

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Covers most of Mount Desert Island
Home to the tallest mountain on the Atlantic coast
Located in Maine

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Acadia

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Home to a 277 mile long canyon carved by the Colorado River

Located in Arizona

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Grand Canyon

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Features various rock formations incuding canyons and arches

Located in Utah

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Zion

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Smallest National Park
The only National Park in an urban area
Located in Arkansas

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Hot Springs

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Includes the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Appalachian Trail

Located in Virginia

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Shenandoah

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Home to a giant natural amphitheatre
Settled by Native Americans and later by Mormon pioneers
Located in Utah

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Bryce Canyon

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Home to the tallest mountain in the Teton Range

Located in Wyoming

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Grand Teton

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Home to 117 caves under the Chihuahuan Desert

Located in New Mexico

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Carlsbad Caverns

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Home to the largest island in Lake Superior
This park is spread across over 400 islands
Features many shipwrecks
Located in Michigan

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Isle Royale

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Located in a mangrove ecosystem and marine estuary
Home to crocodiles, alligators, and manatees
Located in Florida

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Everglades

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Mountains in the Appalachian Mountains
Includes 70 miles of the Appalachian Trail
Located in North Carolina and Tennessee

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Great Smoky Mountains

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Home to many tide pools and Mt. Olympus
Includes the wettest area of the continental United States
Located in Washington

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Olympic

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Home to sequoias, including the world’s second largest

Located in California

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Kings Canyon

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Home to the world’s longest cave system

Located in Kentucky

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Mammoth Cave

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Located along the Rio Grande
Home to many Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils
Located in Texas

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Big Bend

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Includes part of the island of Saint John
Home to ruins of sugar plantations, coral reefs, and mangroves
Located in the United States Virgin Islands

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Virgin Islands

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Home to dinosaur fossils and 225-million year-old petrified wood
Located in Arizona

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Petrified Forest

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Home to canyons, buttes, and mesas carved by the Colorado River
Includes artifacts from the Ancient Puebloans
Located in Utah

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Canyonlands

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Home to the highest point in Texas
Home to a fossilized reef from the Permian
Located in Texas

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Guadalupe Mountains

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Home to glaciers, mountains, and Ross Lake

Located in Washington

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North Cascades

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Protects almost half of all coastal redwoods
Includes tide pools and seastacks
Located in California

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Redwood

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Has a history of Native Americans, fur traders, and a gold rush
Spans across four main lakes
Located in Minnesota

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Voyageurs

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Known for over 2,000 natural sandstone arches

Located in Utah

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Arches

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Features a 100-mile monocline showing Earth’s geologic layers
Located in Utah

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Capitol Reef

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Includes buttes and pinnacles
Home to the world’s richest fossil beds from the Oligocene epoch
Home to black-footed ferrets
Located in South Dakota

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Badlands

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The region that influenced America’s 26th president
Includes his famous cabin
Located in North Dakota

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Includes five of eight of these islands
Half of the park is underwater
Home the critically endangered island fox
Located in California

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Channel Islands

41
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At the north end of the Florida Keys
Home to crocodiles, manatees, and sea turtles
Located in Florida

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Biscayne

42
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Is the northernmost National Park
Has no park facilities
Home to Alaska natives
Located in Alaska

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Gates of the Arctic

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Has three regions of sand dunes created by glaciers
Features ice age fossils
Located in Alaska

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Kobuk Valley

44
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Is the largest National Park
Over 25% of it is volcanic peaks
Located in Alaska

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Wrangell–St. Elias

45
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Surrounds a lake of the same name
Features volcanoes, glaciers, and waterfalls
Located in Alaska

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Lake Clark

46
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Protects the Harding Icefield
Features glaciers and fjords
Located in Alaska

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Kenai Fjords

47
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Is on the Alaska Peninsula
Features a famous ash flow and a mountain of the same name as the park
Located in Alaska

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Katmai

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Features glaciers, mountains, and fjords
Has a temperate rainforest, and is home to bears, whales, and seals
Located in Alaska

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Glacier Bay

49
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Based around Wheeler Peak
Has 5,000 year-old trees and caves
Located in Nevada

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Great Basin

50
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The southernmost National Park
Features coral reefs, volcanoes, and rainforests
Located in American Samoa

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American Samoa

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Is at the west end of the Florida Keys
Features the largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere, coral reefs, and shipwrecks
Located in Florida

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Dry Tortugas

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Is on the Sonoran Desert
Home to its famous cacti, and peccaries
Located in Arizona

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Saguaro

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Is the hottest, lowest, and driest place in the country
Features canyons, badlands, sand dunes, and mountains
Located in California and Nevada

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Death Valley

54
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Lies on the Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert
Is famous for its trees of the same name
Also has sand dunes, mountains, and granite monoliths
Located in California

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Joshua Tree

55
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Is home to a canyon from the Precambrian

Located in Colorado

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Black Canyon of the Gunnison

56
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Is focused on early rural living, featuring historic homes and bridges
Located in Ohio

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Cuyahoga Valley

57
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On a swampland created by a river of the same name

Located in South Carolina

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Congaree

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Home to the tallest dunes in North America

Located in Colorado

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Great Sand Dunes

59
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Formed by the erosion of an extinct volcano
Very popular for rock climbing
Located in California

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Pinnacles

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