Editorial
Front Page - Friday, October 02, 2009
Brainbuster
Don Bona
By Don Bona
1. What U.S. national park has a lake with no inlet or outlet and is supplied by only by the melting snow, which is on average 533 inches per year? Lake Clark National Park in Alaska; Glacier National Park in Montana; Crater Lake National Park in Oregon; North Cascades National Park in Washington.
2. What U.S. national park contains the deepest lake in the nation at 1,949 feet? Lake Clark National Park in Alaska; Glacier National Park in Montana; Crater Lake National Park in Oregon; North Cascades National Park in Washington.
3. Which U.S. national park contains the tallest waterfall in the nation, a 2,420-foot drop? The Great Smokey Mountains National Park; Yosemite National Park; Yellowstone National Park; Mt. Ranier National Park.
4. Which U.S. national park has the largest desert in the nation? The Great Basin Desert in Great Basin National Park in Nevada; Painted Desert in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona; Desert Queen in Death Valley National Park in California; Mojave Desert in Mohave National Preserve in California.
5. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana contains most all of the geysers in the United States. Which geyser, over 300 feet tall, is the tallest? Grand Geyser; Old Faithful; Splendid Geyser or Steamboat Geyser.
6. What U.S. national park is the hottest spot in the nation, with a record high of 134 degrees? Great Basin National Park, Saguaro National Park; Death Valley National Park; Petrified Forest National Park.
7. What U.S. national forest had the oldest trees (over 4,000 years old) in the world? Inyo/Bristlecone national Forest in California; Ozark/St. Francis National Forest in Arkansas; Tahoe National Forest in Nevada/California; Sequoia National Forest in California .
8. Which is the oldest and largest National Forest in the Southern region, founded in 1907 and contains 1.8 million acres? Ozark/St Francis National Forest in Arkansas; Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas; Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina/ Talladega National Forest in Alabama.
9. Which U.S. National Park was the first national park in the history of the world? Crater Lake National Park; Yosemite National Park; Yellowstone National Park; Great Basin National Park.
10. Which U.S. National Park has the most yearly visitors, over 9 million per year according to the last census? Great Smokey Mountains National Park; Grand Canyon; Yosemite National Park; Yellowstone National Park.
ANSWERS: 1. Crater Lake National Park in Alaska. 2. Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. 3. Yosemite National Park. 4. Great Basin Desert in Nevada. 5. Steamboat Geyser. 6. Death Valley National Park. 7. Inyo/Bristlecone National Forest in California. 8. Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas. 9. Yellowstone National Park. 10. Great Smokey Mountains National Park.
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