Yellowstone

A  It could be tomorrow or 10 to 100 thousand years from now. We cannot really tell

B   Not for 2 million years

C  Not for 200,000 years

D    

E  The magma is cooling so fast it no longer can erupt

F   Not for 10 million years

A  No one knows right now

B  Sediment is piling up quickly causing the lake floor to sink

C  The magma chamber is rising and pushing the ground up

D  Isostatic rebound

E  So much human trash is causing the lake level to change

A  Carbon dioxide is released into the lake preventing any fish from living in it

B  Isostatic rebounding is allowing the lake to rise as the glaciers melt

C  Subsidence, the lake floor is sinking

D  Uplift, you can now see a sunken boat on the surface

A  Toxic gas killed off 60% of the park’s wildlife

B  Yellowstone erupted

C  Yellowstone rose over 3 feet in elevation

D  More than 500 earthquakes in 10 days

A  It shows that the North American plate is moving

B  It shows that pressure has been relieved in the volcano making an eruption unlikely to happen in the future

C  It shows that the volcanic hot spot is shifting to the left

D  It shows that the pressure has increased making an eruption likely in the next ten years

A  1000 years

B  150,000 years

C  50,000 years

D  800,000 years

E  A few million years

A  Yellowstone crater formed from a meteor impact that killed off the Ice Age mammals

B  By basalt flows down cutting the slopes of the volcano

C  By subsidence caused by the piling up of heavy rock

D  The crater of Yellowstone formed because there was a giant reservoir of molten rock, which when lava erupted, the ground around collapsed and fell through

A  250 times

B  2500 times

C  100 times

D  10 times

E  5 times

A  Ejected bones of bison from an earlier Yellowstone super eruption

B  Basalts that flowed down to California from the Yellowstone volcano

C  Large boulders blasted away from Yellowstone

D  Volcanic ash from last Yellowstone super eruption, 640,000 years ago

A  Basalt

B  Rhyolite

C  Sandstone

D  Limestone

E  Granite

A  Erosion of old granite rock units

B  Metamorphism of old beach deposits due to the high temperature of the hot springs

C  Glacial deposits from the north

D  Hot molten lava flow originating from deep below the earth crust, slow cooled and making its way towards the surface.

A  River water slowly fills the reservoir under the crust and heats up with hot rock underneath.

B  Glacial melt water continually fills the basin, hot rock heat the water, water pressure drops, and then thousands of gallons of water turn to steam and blast into the air.

C  It is actually not faithful but erupts irregularly.

D  Rainwater continually fills the basin, hot rock heat the water, water pressure drops, and then thousands of gallons of water turn to steam and blast into the air.

A  Its large animals can only live at its 8,000 foot elevation

B  Its strange geology

C  It is home to the largest diversity of wildflowers

D  It sinks a more than a foot per year causing groundwater to shoot to the surface