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25 Cards in this Set
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What is the highest point on the Atlantic coast? |
Cadillac Mountain |
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A more appropriate name for Mount Desert Island would be: |
Bare Mountain Island |
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Who was instrumental in establishing the park? |
George Dorr |
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What name is given to the exotic terrane found in Acadia National Park?
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Avalon |
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he exotic terrane found in Acadia is composed of:
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Ellsworth Schist, Bar Harbor Formation, and Cranberry Island Series
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The exotic terrane collided with the North American plate in a collision called the:
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Acadian Orogeny |
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As magma intruded the country rock, it created a zone of broken rock called the:
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Shatter zone |
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Unusually large crystals in an igneous intrusion are referred to as:
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Pegmatites |
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Acadia was glaciated by: |
Continental ice sheets |
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Glacial striations show that the ice moved in what direction? |
From north to south |
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What is the only true fjord on the east coast of the united states? |
Somes Sound |
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What name is given to the ponds or small lakes that result when a block of ice detaches from the ice sheet and melts, leaving a depression in the glacial debris?
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kettles |
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After the ice melted at the end of the last glacial period, sea level at Acadia National Park was: |
higher than at present |
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Which one of the following pairs of parks both experienced glacial rebound?
A) Waterton-Glacier and Glacier Bay B) Waterton-Glacier and Acadia C) Glacier Bay and Acadia D) None of the above |
C |
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What are glacial erratics? |
rocks carried into an area by the ice from a distant location |
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Which one of the following pairs of parks both contain exotic terranes?
A) Waterton-glacier and Glacier Bay B) Waterton-Glacier and Acadia C) Glacier Bay and Acadia D) None of the above |
C |
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The deep U-shaped glacial troughs in Acadia are locally called:
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Dorrs |
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Where is Waterton-Glacier International Park located? |
Montana |
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Where is Glacier Bay located? |
Alaska |
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Where is Acadia located |
Maine |
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True or False: The Vikings probably saw Acadia before any other Europeans.
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True |
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rue or False: Acadia was our first national park east of the Mississippi River.
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True |
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True or False: One finds primarily sedimentary rocks in Acadia National Park.
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False |
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True or False: The ice overrode the mountains and polished the bedrock into smooth rounded bare summits.
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True |
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True or False: Because the granite is less resistant than the diabase dikes, the granite has eroded away, leaving a ridge of diabase.
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False |
