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Quiz: United States National Parks

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  • Question of

    This national park became a park in 1902. It contains the deepest fresh water lake in the US and the seventh deepest in the world. Which national park is it?

    • Erie National Park and Refuge
    • Yosemite National Park
    • Crater Lake National Park
    • Yosemite National Park
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    This national park, in Wyoming, got its name from the imagined resemblance of two of the mountains there to a woman’s breasts.

    • Mammoth National Park
    • Grand Teton National Park
    • Badlands National Park
    • Lassen National Park
  • Question of

    At over eight and a quarter million acres (almost four times larger than Yellowstone), this is the largest national park in the United States. Over a quarter of this park is also covered in glaciers.

    • Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
    • Everglades National Park
    • Kings Canyon National Park
    • Grand Canyon National Park
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    This national park contains an active stratovolcano and the largest glacier in the lower 48 states.

    • Redwood National Park
    • Voyageurs National Park
    • Mount Rainier National Park
    • Petrified Forest National Park
  • Question of

    The highest temperature ever recorded in the US occurred in this national park on July 10, 1913. That temperature was 134 F / 56.7 C.

    • Death Valley National Park
    • Grand Canyon National Park
    • Glacier National Park
    • Hot Springs National Park
  • Question of

    This national park consists of temperate rain forests and it is officially the wettest place in the lower 48 states.

    • Olympic National Park
    • Theodore Roosevelt National Park
    • Wind Cave National Park
    • Denali National Park
  • Question of

    This national park contains hundreds of waterfalls, six of which are over 1,000 feet high. The highest is 2,425 feet high, making it the highest waterfall in the continental United States.

    • Arches National Park
    • Pinnacles National Park
    • Yosemite National Park
    • Mesa Verde National Park
  • Question of

    This national park has four kinds of volcanoes; shield, cinder dome, composite, and plug dome. The plug dome volcano in this national park is the largest in the world.

    • Lassen National Park
    • Katmai National Park
    • Great Basin National Park
    • Congaree National Park
  • Question of

    This national park was named for a particular portion of the Rio Grande. The park contains deserts, canyons, and geological formations.

    • Big Bend National Park
    • Capitol Reef National Park
    • Acadia National Park
    • Arches National Park
  • Question of

    Bonus Question: Which US state has the most acreage set aside in national parks.

    • Utah
    • California
    • Texas
    • Alaska

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Written by Rex Trulove

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    • I could have added more, but the quiz took me several hours to put together. LOL Still, there are plenty of questions for ‘next time’. If you only missed two, you are doing really well!

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