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How well do you know our National Parks?

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What national park reaches into three states?

a)

Great Smoky Mountains

b)

Yellowstone

c)

Grand Canyon

d)

Death Valley

2.

The largest national park is...

a)

Haleakala on Maui, with that giant volcanic cone

b)

Yellowstone, with all those geyser fields

c)

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, because, oh, it's Alaska

d)

Redwoods, with all those tall trees

3.

What president signed legislation to establish the first national park?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

James Garfield

4.

What national park had the most recreational visitors in 2015?

a)

Great Smoky Mountains

b)

Grand Canyon

c)

Acadia

d)

Badlands

5.

If you shot a selfie in front of the Tower of Babel, stopped off to see the Parade of Elephants, then took a hike to see Eye of the Whale, you’d be:

a)

Peeking at peaks in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

b)

Agog over rock formations at Arches National Park, Utah.

c)

Dodging gators at Everglades National Park, Florida, after stopping by the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota.

d)

Checking out stalactites in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.

6.

Which state has the most national parks?

a)

Colorado

b)

Alaska

c)

Utah

d)

California

7.

The southernmost U.S. national park is in


a)

Texas

b)

Hawaii

c)

Florida

d)

American Samoa

8.

Which of these National Park Service units is a prehistoric American Indian site?

a)

Nicodemus National Historic Site, Kansas

b)

Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia

c)

Sequoia National Park, California

d)

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan

9.

If you visit a park site that tells the story of patriotic female laborers in the 1940s, you’re at

a)

First Ladies National Historic Site, Ohio

b)

Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland

c)

Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, California

d)

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

10.

What is the only U.S. national park that regularly flies the Union Jack flag of Great Britain?

a)

San Juan Island National Historical Park, Washington

b)

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, MA

c)

Minute Man National Historical Park, MA

d)

Virgin Islands National Park, U.S. Virgin Islands

11.

Which is NOT a landmark in Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park?

a)

Paradise

b)

Camp Muir

c)

Mammoth Cave

d)

Indian Henry's Hunting Ground

12.

Which is NOT a landmark in California’s Yosemite National Park?

a)

Half Dome

b)

Inspiration Point

c)

Going-to-the-Sun Road

d)

El Capitan

13.

Which is NOT a landmark in Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

a)

Clingmans Dome

b)

Cades Cove

c)

Oconaluftee Valley

d)

West Thumb

14.

Which is NOT a landmark in Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park?

a)

The Great White Throne

b)

Bright Angel Point

c)

Phantom Ranch

d)

North Rim

15.

Which is NOT in California?

a)

Channel Islands National Park

b)

Joshua Tree National Park

c)

Isle Royale National Park

d)

Kings Canyon National Park

16.

Who is NOT commemorated by a national park or national historic site?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

17.

Which is NOT the name of a national park?

a)

Canyonlands

b)

Waimea Canyon

c)

Bryce Canyon

d)

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

18.

Which national park contains the highest mountain in North America?

a)

North Cascades National Park, Washington

b)

Mount Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

c)

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

d)

Denali National Park, Alaska

19.

What Western U.S. national park is a regular destination for large cruise ships?

a)

Glacier Bay

b)

Glacier

c)

Great Basin

d)

Great Sand Dunes

20.

What national park includes the prison cell of a convicted conspirator – later pardoned – in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln?

a)

Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida

b)

Congaree National Park, South Carolina

c)

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio

d)

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

21.

Which national park has the deepest lake in the U.S.?

a)

Lake Clark in Alaska

b)

Crater Lake in Oregon

c)

Grand Teton in Wyoming

d)

Shenandoah in Virginia

22.

What causes the blue haze for which Great Smoky Mountains National Park is named?

a)

Cars

b)

Fires

c)

Plants

d)

Animals

23.

Which president signed the National Park Service into being in 1916?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Franklin Roosevelt

d)

William Taft

24.

At the turn of the 20th century, which national park hosted spring training for some U.S. baseball teams?

a)

Everglades in Florida

b)

Mesa Verde in Colorado

c)

Biscayne in Florida

d)

Hot Springs in Arkansas

25.

Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch hid out in the canyons of which national park?

a)

Grand Canyon in Arizona

b)

Canyonlands in Utah

c)

Rocky Mountain in Colorado

d)

Great Basin in Nevada

26.

Carbon Glacier in this national park has the greatest thickness and volume of any glacier in the continental U.S.

a)

Glacier National Park

b)

Denali National Park

c)

Mount Rainier National Park

d)

Zion National Park

27.

Which national park includes the largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi River?

a)

Acadia

b)

Isle Royale

c)

Cuyahoga Valley

d)

Everglades

28.

The most massive single mountain on Earth is located in which national park?

a)

Rocky Mountain

b)

Hawaii Volcanoes

c)

Yosemite

d)

Guadalupe Mountains

29.

Which of the following national parks is the newest?

a)

Great Sand Dune National Park, Colorado

b)

New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia

c)

Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri

d)

Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana