Sequoia and Kings Canyon Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Large natural voids/spaces inside of a rock or mountain
  2. 4. The name of the national park's canyon
  3. 5. It is the trace or remains of an ancient organism that is preserved in rock or sediment
  4. 9. The acts an organism makes in response to its environment
  5. 11. These animals have large antlers and only eat vegetation. If lucky you can watch them graze on grass and walk calmly around the park.
  6. 13. Name of the huge, old, and beautiful trees all around the National Park
  7. 14. It is a seasonal movement of organisms from one area to another. Animals like birds do this during the winter to move to a warmer environment.
  8. 15. The layers of a rock in the ground that help determine its age
  9. 16. A large granite rock in a dome shape. It has a trail people can climb all the way to its top and view a beautiful scene of the National Park
  10. 18. The tallest mountain in the Lower 48 towering 14,494 feet. It lies on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park and Inyo National Park
  11. 20. The biggest tree in the National Park
Down
  1. 1. It is a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements. Their movements can create earthquakes, mountains, and volcanos
  2. 2. This type of rock is created by a lot of heat and pressure deep inside the Earth near tectonic plate boundries
  3. 6. The mountains that the National Park resides in
  4. 7. This type of rock is created by layers of sediment that will weather, compact, and cement over time. NO heat is required to create this type of rock
  5. 8. Melted snow water that falls from the side of the mountains
  6. 10. It is a group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
  7. 12. The process by which species adapt over time in response to their changing environment.
  8. 17. This type of rock is created by volcanic activity either cooling at a rapid pace outside the volcano or magma cooling at a slow pace inside the volcano
  9. 19. This animal is big, brown/black, and fuzzy. They are omnivores eating both meat and vegetation. They look cuddly, however, you should never feed them or hug them