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Colorado Plateau Questions (HW 11)
Each answer worth 2 points unless otherwise specified. 94 points total.
Please use blue type for your answers (type anywhere on the blue line and the type should
be blue and bold).
1) Roughly how much tectonic uplift has the Colorado Plateau undergone since about 6
to 10 million years ago?
3,600 feet
2) Describe the climate of the Colorado Plateau.
Arid with sparse vegetation
3) What is the range of elevation (lowest to highest) on the Colorado Plateau?
1,200 to
11,000 feet
4) The Colorado Plateau is bordered by these two physiographic provinces.
Telluride area and San Miguel River
5) Name the three escarpments on the edge of the Colorado Plateau that overlook the
Basin and Range.
Hurricane cliffs, grand wash cliffs, Mogollon rim
6) Rocks on the Colorado Plateau are part of the Interior Platform and the North
American Crystalline Shield.
Which one (Interior Platform or Crystalline Shield) is present on the Grand Staircase?
crystalline shield
Which one (Interior Platform or Crystalline Shield) is present in Canyonlands National
Park?
interior platform
Which one (Interior Platform or Crystalline Shield) is present in Monument Valley
crystalline shield
Which one (Interior Platform or Crystalline Shield) forms the rim (top) of the Grand
Canyon?
Interior platform
7) In addition to the Interior Platform and Crystalline Shield, name two additional rock
types present on the Colorado
Plateau.
Young volcanic rock and granitic crystalline cored domes
8) Name the only river that enters and exits the Colorado Plateau
Colorado River
9) Name three tributary canyon rivers that enter the Colorado River on the Colorado
Plateau.
green dirty devil
little Colorado
10) Broad uplifts and monoclines are the structural forms developed on the Colorado
Plateau. Name three landscape types produced by these structures.
Monoclinal slopes monoclinal hogback ridges
bench and slope landscape
11) Canyonlands National Park lies between the
green
and
Colorado
Rivers.
12) Grand Canyon National Park is occupied by the
Colorado
River.
13) Where on the Colorado Plateau can one find classic bench and slope landscape?
In
the folds of the plateau
14) Where on the Colorado Plateau are mesas and buttes well displayed?
Monument
valley
15) Name the three major cliffs in the Grand Staircase from lowest (left) to highest
(right).
1)
vermillion
2)
white
3) pink
Which of the three major cliffs forms Bryce Canyon National Park?
pink
Which of the three major cliffs forms Zion National Park?
white
Which of the three major cliffs primarily limestone?
vermillion
Which of the three major cliffs forms the Navajo Formation (sandstone)?
white
16a) Name three national parks that are controlled by vertical joints.
Bryce Canyon
Zion
Arches
16b) Which of the three is controlled by two nearly perpendicular joint sets?
Bryce
Canyon
17) Name the rock type that forms the deepest part of Grand Canyon?
crystalline
18) These cliffs cross the Colorado River near Lee’s Ferry.
Echo and vermillion
19) The Water pocket fold is part of
Capita Riffs
National Park.
20) Name the monoclinal hogback ridge associated with the Kaibab Arch.
East Kaibab
21) Name the monoclinal hogback ridge near the Four-Corners associated with the
Monument Upwarp.
Comb ridge
22) Name the monoclinal hogback ridge associated with the Circle Cliffs Uplift.
Water
pocket
23) Name the monoclinal hogback ridge at the edge of the Colorado Plateau where rocks
rise into the Rocky Mountains to form the White River Plateau.
Grand Hogback
24) Who was John Wesley Powell and what is his relationship with the Colorado River?
He made a trip through the Grand Canyon and down the Colorado River
and Green River.
25) What is the relationship of Lee’s Ferry with the Grand Canyon?
Marks the
beginning of the Grand canyon
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