Mountain Ranges

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Mountain Ranges

29. What is the name of the highest mountain range in the Easter part of the US?

30. What is the most well known mountain of the Rockies called?

31. What mountain chains lie west to the Rockies?

32. What is the highest mountain in the United States?

33. In which mountain are the faces of four American presidents carved?

34. What are the Black Hills of South Dakota famous for?

35. What is the lowest spot in the world?

36. What is the Monument Valley famous for?

37. In what US state do the highest trees in the world grow?

38. Where does the word “sequoia” come from?

39. What is the name of the biggest sequoia tree in the United States?

40. What is the oldest known tree in the United States?

41. When and where was the first National Park created in the US? What was it?

42. What is the most famous geyser in Yellowstone Park called?

43. What other National Parks do you know?

44. What is Grand Canyon National Park famous for?

45. What is the only National Park in the northwestern part of the United States?

29. The Appalachian Mountains.

30. It is Pike's Peak, 4,350 m. The mountain takes its name from the US general – Montgomery Pike, who explored the region in 1806. In 1859, there was a gold mining boom around Pikes Peak. From the top of Pike's Peak, on a clear day, the wheat fields of Kansas more than 300 km away can be seen.

31. The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range.

32. Mount McKinley: 20,320 feet high. It is situated in Alaska and is named in honor of the 25^th President of the United States William McKinley (1843-1901).

33. Huge sculptures of the heads of the presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are carved in granite on the northeastern side of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills, in South Dakota. These gigantic heads are 18 meters high and are visible for over 80 km.

34. In the Black Hills of South Dakota are two huge monuments carved from mountains. One is the Mount Rushmore National Monument. It shows the faces of four American presidents carved by Gutzon Borglum between 1925 and 1941 and completed after his death by his son Lincoln Borglum later that year. The other monument is the Crazy Horse Mountain to the famous Sioux Indian leader.