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Yellowstone National Park
One of the earliest of the American National Parks, Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872. The park is located at the corner of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Home of the famous Old Faithful geyser, the park includes many unusual land formations and diverse wildlife.
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What are 3 abiotic factors at Yellowstone national park?
Bison, Wolves, Bears, Mountain Goats, Coyotes, Foxes, Mule Deer, Bighorn Sheep, Elk, Osprey, Bald Eagles, Clark's Nutcracker, Least Chipmunk, Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel, Yellow-Bellied Marmot, Pronghorn, Moose, Lake Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Lynxes, Bobcat, Bull Snake, Red-Tailed Hawk, nad Short-Tailed Weasel.
What is interesting about Yellowstone national park?
If you haven't been there, I would definitely go there if you get the opportunity. Besides the beautiful terrain, and the vast mountain range, it has many cute shops and wonderful restaurants.
What is the nickname for Yellowstone park?
John Colter was the first European American to describe Yellowstone in 1805. His descriptions of the many geothermal features led to the nickname of, " Colter's Hell", as few people believed the place existed anywhere but in his mind.
How many miles from Miami Florida to Yellowstone National Park?
The entire drive from Miami (the city proper) to Yellowstone's South Gate Entrance is 2,666 miles.
What is the igneous activity in Yellowstone National Park is associated with what tectonic setting?
intraplate setting
What are the opening hours for Yellowstone national park?
Very few national parks actually close. One exception is PetrifiedForest because folks cant help themselves from taking petrified wood. Most national parks that are natural actually allow you to stay in the park. Historical parks however have given hours.
At the what mud boils and bubles and shoots into the air?
At the volcanoes and geysers, mud boils and bubbles and shoots in to the air. There are also hot springs near the geysers.
When did Yellowstone become a national park?
Yellowstone is the world's first national park, established March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was established by an act of Congress and the signing into law by President Ulysses S. Grant to create the world's first national park and continues today to be known for the abundant wildlife that live there and as the home of over half of the world's geysers.
What states border the Grand Canyon national park?
The Grand Canyon is only found in northwestern Arizona.
What is the relative location of Yellowstone?
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Yellowstone National Park
Grand Loop Rd, Yellowstn Ntl Pk, WY
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I don't have the world coordinates, but it's in the northwestern tip of Wyoming.
What type of minerals are found in Yellowstone?
Most of the rock you will find at Yosemite will be granite. The old rock layers were eroded away and the tougher granite layer is what we now see today.
Will the yellowstone volcano erupt soon?
No. The supervolcano in Yellowstone has produced three super eruptions at intervals of 800,000 to 660,000 years with the last one occurring about 640,000 years ago. A smaller eruption occurred about 70,000 years ago. Given these time intervals, the chances of the volcano erupting in the next 10 years are almost negligible.
How many animals call Yellowstone home?
bears, squirrels, deer, chipmunks, bears, squirrels, deer, chipmunks, _____________ __________ * 7 species of native ungulates * 2 species of bears * Approximately 67 species of other mammals * 322 recorded species of birds (148 nesting species) * 16 species of fish (5 non-native) * 6 species of reptiles * 4 species of amphibians * 1 threatened species: Canada lynx
1 endangered species: gray wolf (designated an experimental and non-essential population in Yellowstone National Park; proposed for delisting in 2008)
How are Hawaii and Yellowstone national park alike?
Both the chain of islands that comprise Hawaii and the area under Yellowstone park are "hot spots" where hot, deep, magma comes close to the surface of the Earth's crust. They are both geologically active areas.
What direction is it from Yellowstone National Park to Yosemite National Park?
In what direction is Yosemite National Park from Sacramento?
Which is bigger Yellowstone or yosemite?
Yosemite is far better for sightseeing and hiking. It has some of the highest waterfalls, most unique rock formations, and the biggest trees on Earth.
Yellowstone is mostly flat and not very beautiful. After a day-or-two the geysers and smelly buffalo get old real quick.
How did Yellowstone Park get its name?
1. How did Yellowstone get its name?
Reference: Resources and Issues Handbook 2000, Yellowstone National Park
Who would doubt that the name "Yellowstone" derived from the brightly colored volcanic rock in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. It would be an appropriate origin, afterall, since thermal features like geysers and hot springs were the primary reason Yellowstone Park was established and thermal features refashioned the canyon's rhyolite to its present brilliance. But then that would be re-writing history.
The name actually derives from the Yellowstone River which flows some 670 miles from the heart of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Wyoming to the Montana/North Dakota border.
French-Canadian trappers, in the 1700s, first learned of the "Rock Yellow River" or "Mi tse a-da-zi" from the Minnetaree tribe in what is today eastern Montana. The Indian name likely referred to the sandstone bluffs that overlook the lower Yellowstone near its confluence with the Missouri River. The trappers applied the French translation "Roche Jaune" to the river.
David Thomson, an explorer-geographer, made the first translation of the river's name into English, "Yellow Stone," in 1797. In the journals of the Corps of Discovery, Lewis and Clark refer to the Yellowtone River in both French and English forms.
In the decades after the Lewis and Clark trek across the continent, the wild and wondrous landscapes through which this river flows came to be known as the "Yellowstone Country," the core of which would one day give birth to the world's first national park.
What is the top predator in Yellowstone National Park?
There are various mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and amphibians found in Yellowstone National Park. The biggest of these animals is the Grizzly bear. The male grizzly bear can weigh anywhere between 200 and 700 lbs., while the females generally average between 200 and 400 lbs. These bears can be anywhere between 2 and 11 times bigger than the black bear, another animal found at the park.
In what state will you find the Yellowstone national park?
Yellowstone national park is in three states, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
The Hawaiian Islands and Yellowstone are associated with which of the three zones of volcanism?
The type of zone of volcanism that the Hawaiian Islands and Yellowstone National Park are associated with is called a Hot Spot. Volcanic places that are formed by mantle plumes are called Hot Spots.
Why does Yellowstone have hot spots?
Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a volcano caldera, approximately 28x47 miles across, formed by a hot spot (a crack in the earth's crust which brings magma up to the surface), a result of the forming of the Rocky Mountains about 50 million years ago.
Geysers are a result of groundwater which is being heated by the magma underground and then, when the heat and pressure are too great, explode in an amazing display of water and steam.
About 53% of the world's geysers are located in Yellowstone National Park.
Other thermal features in Yellowstone include fumeroles (mostly steam, little water), hot springs, and mudpots.
Is Yellowstone national park bigger than the UK?
No, not even close. Yellowstone N.P. has an area of 8,983 kmâ², compared to 243,610 kmâ² for the United Kingdom. You could fit Yellowstone into the UK 27 times with room to spare. Yellowstone is a little bit bigger than Puerto Rico, but smaller than Cyprus or Lebanon. Yellowstone is almost 3½ times as large as Luxembourg, but Belgium is more than 3 times as large as Yellowstone.
