National Parks Study Guide

Geography 426 clues | 71 recurring answers

Topic Overview Study Guide Practice

answers to learn

4 Must-Know

19 Should-Know

48 Worth Knowing

Quick Reference: Must-Know Answers

These appear 8+ times. Memorize these first.

Yellowstone 15 the Everglades 14 Mammoth Cave 13 the Grand Canyon 8

Answers by Category

Other

49 answers | 178 clues

Must-Know (3)

the Everglades 14x $754 avg J:7 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $100 1995 This Florida national park is home to the alligator, North America's largest reptile

J $500 1984 This southern subtropical wilderness is home to manatees & TV's "Gentle Ben"

J $1,500 DD 2006 At over 1.3 million acres, it's the largest subtropical preserve in North America

Mammoth Cave 13x 46.2% stumper $477 avg J:6 DJ:7

DJ $200 1997 Features of this Kentucky park include the Frozen Niagara & Alice's Grotto

J $500 DD 1995 In this southern national park you can take a boat ride on the underground Echo River

J $1,000 2015 Early guide Stephen Bishop called the centerpiece of this Kentucky park a "grand, gloomy and peculiar place"

the Grand Canyon 8x $450 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2003 The U.S. has 2 parks labeled "Grand", Wyoming's Grand Teton & this one in Arizona

J $600 2011 G:This Arizona national park that's also a UNESCO World Heritage Site

DJ $1,200 2014 Bright Angel Trail, East Rim Drive

Should-Know (15)

Alaska 7x 28.6% stumper $329 avg J:6 DJ:1

J $100 1994 Glacier National Park is located in Montana & Glacier Bay National Park is part of this state

J $500 1995 With 8, this state has the most national parks

J $100 1993 Glacier National Park is in Montana & Glacier Bay National Park is in this state

Theodore Roosevelt 7x $583 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2014 The cornerstone forthe archat the north entrance to the park was laid by this conservationist president

DJ $600 1990 North Dakota's only national park, it's also the only one named for a U.S. President

FJ 1988 The only national park named for a president is named for him

Zion 6x 16.7% stumper $1,100 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $600 2016 Perhaps the most famous landmark in this Utah park is the Great White Throne

J $1,000 2011 Z:It's the only national park that fits the bill

J $800 2010 Celebrating "a century of sanctuary" in 2009, it's Utah's first national park, though it's last alphabetically

Yosemite 6x $467 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1995 Bridalveil Fall is usually the first waterfall seen by visitors to this California Park's valley

DJ $600 1995 Major attractions of this park include El Capitan & several spectacular waterfalls

J $400 2020 For decades, Firefall at this California national park was an annual pouring of bonfire remnants over Glacier Point

Maine 5x $660 avg J:3 DJ:2

DJ $400 1996 Acadia National Park in this state is the easternmost national park in the continental U.S.

J $500 1995 Somes Sound, the only fjord in the lower 48 states, is in Acadia National Park in this state

J $1,000 2016 State where you'll find (the non-southern) Acadia

Florida 5x $340 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2012 Biscayne

J $300 1995 This state's John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was the first undersea park in the U.S.

DJ $400 2023 Canaveral National Seashore protects 24 miles of undeveloped coastline in this state

Central Park 5x $160 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1996 The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1859 & 1st housed in the arsenal in this NYC park

J $100 1995 The site for this 840-acre NYC park was purchased by the city in 1856

J $200 2014 Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields in this park & on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arkansas 5x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1994 About a million gals. of water flow daily from the hot springs at Hot Springs National Park in this state

DJ $600 1993 De Soto is said to have sampled the hot springs in what is now Hot Springs National Park in this state

DJ $400 1990 The temperature of the water in this state's Hot Springs National Park is always 143 degrees Fahrenheit

the Petrified Forest 5x 20.0% stumper $1,040 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 This park features extinct trees such as schilderia & Araucarioxylon arizonicum

DJ $800 2023 As seen here, parts of trees that have become fossilized are features of this national park in Arizona

DJ $2,000 2004 Arizona's Painted Desert stretches from Grand Canyon National Park southeast to this much smaller national park

Washington 4x 25.0% stumper $500 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2016 Mount Rainier is in this coastal state

DJ $600 1991 Port Angeles is headquarters for Olympic National Park in this state

J $400 2012 North Cascades National Park

Utah 4x $650 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2012 Landscape Arch, one of the world's longest natural arches, is found at a national park in this state

J $600 2012 Bryce Canyon

DJ $1,000 DD 1996 Bryce Canyon National Park & Canyonlands National Park are both in this state

Greenland 4x $1,050 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 Covering more area than Texas, a national park on this Danish island is the world's largest

DJ $600 1991 Appropriately, the world's largest park is located on this, the world's largest island

DJ $3,000 DD 2011 The largest national park lies on this island; at 375,000 square miles, it occupies about 45% of this island's area

Grand Teton 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1994 The 2 "Grand" national parks are Grand Canyon & this one in Wyoming

DJ $800 1997 To visit Jackson Hole, Wyoming, travel to this national park south of Yellowstone

DJ $1,200 2009 This national park in Wyoming has a big hole in it--Jackson Hole

Denali 4x $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $600 2012 In 1980 Mount McKinley National Park was renamed this, the native name for the mountain

DJ $1,000 1999 Until 1980, it was known as Mount McKinley National Park

DJ $1,000 1996 The name of this park means "the great one" in a native Alaskan language

Crater Lake 4x 25.0% stumper $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 1994 This Oregon park is named for the lake in the caldera of Mt. Mazama

DJ $1,000 1990 1 of 2 national parks named for a lake

DJ $600 1988 Colorful lava walls tower 2,000 ft. above this deep blue lake in Oregon

Worth Knowing (31)

the Blue Ridge Mountains 3 Old Faithful 3 Lake Superior 3 Death Valley 3 arches 3 Badlands 3 the Gateway Arch 2 Texas 2 Superior 2 Spokane 2 Sequoia National Park 2 Sequoia 2 Pennsylvania 2 Mount Rainier 2 Montana 2 Jean Lafitte 2 Hot Springs National Park 2 Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2 Grand Teton National Park 2 Crater Lake National Park 2 California 2 Big Bend 2 (John) Muir 2 the Sierra Nevada 2 the Rio Grande 2 the Painted Desert 2 the Great Smoky Mountains 2 Tennessee 2 Great Smoky National Park 2 a glacier 2 Everglades National Park 2

Europe

8 answers | 35 clues

Must-Know (1)

Yellowstone 15x 7.1% stumper $350 avg J:5 DJ:9 FJ:1

J $100 1995 The Montana-Wyoming border passes through this national park

DJ $800 2003 Grand Prismatic Spring in Midway Geyser Basin is this park's largest hot springs

FJ 2023 It's named for a river indigenous people called Mi tse a-da-zi, translated by French-speaking trappers as "Pierre Jaune"

Should-Know (1)

Hot Springs 7x $657 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $400 1997 The bathhouses on Bathhouse Row in this Arkansas park were modeled on those in Europe

DJ $600 1996 Naturally sterile water from this Arkansas park was used to store Moon rocks

DJ $1,000 1991 Eight historic bathhouses are preserved along Bathhouse Row at this nat'l park in Arkansas

Worth Knowing (6)

Acadia 3 the Snake River 2 Ireland 2 Hyde Park 2 Holland 2 Australia 2

North America

5 answers | 17 clues

Should-Know (2)

Carlsbad Caverns 7x $460 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:2

DJ $400 1994 The lowest point of this national park in the southwest U.S. is more than 1100 feet underground

J $1,000 2006 "The Big Room" is part of this N.M. cave system made a national park in 1930, 11 years before Mammoth Cave

FJ 2025 Much of this 73-square-mile National Park is located beneath the Chihuahuan Desert

Banff 4x 25.0% stumper $1,650 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,400 DD 1991 Canada's National Park System began in 1885 with the establishment of this park in Alberta

DJ $1,600 2014 Canada's first national park, it was created in 1887 in Alberta & was originally called Rocky Mountains Park

DJ $1,600 2006 Chateau Lake Louise is a famous resort in this Canadian national park

Worth Knowing (3)

New Mexico 2 Guatemala 2 Canada 2

Asia

4 answers | 11 clues

Worth Knowing (4)

the Philippines 3 Golden Gate Park 3 the U.S. Virgin Islands 3 St. Augustine 2

Oceania

1 answers | 5 clues

Should-Know (1)

American Samoa 5x 20.0% stumper $780 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $500 1993 This U.S. South Pacific territory has a national park featuring a tropical rain forest

DJ $1,000 1995 The USA's only national park south of the equator lies in the rain forests of this territory

DJ $600 1996 The national park of this U.S. territory in the South Pacific includes several types of rain forest

South America

2 answers | 4 clues

Worth Knowing (2)

Chile 2 Angel Falls 2

Africa

1 answers | 2 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

South Africa 2

Middle East

1 answers | 2 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

Israel 2

Start Studying National Parks
« Back to National Parks overview