National Parks

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Desert

35. The Death Valley situated in California in the Great Basin.

36. The Monument Valley is the desert that covers parts of four US states: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Tall towers of red and yellow stone rise sharply from the flat sandy valley floor.

37. The tallest trees in the world are the Californian redwood, growing in Sequoia National Park (California). Most of them are more than 90 meters high – about as tall as a 30-storied building. The tallest known redwood is 113 meters high. They have huge trunks. In one or two of them an archway has been cut through the trunk so that a car can be driven through the living tree. The giant sequoias are not as tall as the redwoods, but their trunks are much thicker. Besides, these trees are the oldest living things known. Some of them are 3,000 years old.

38. It is the name of the great Cherokee Indian (Sequoya, Sequoyah) (1760-1843) who devised the Cherokee alphabet (1809-1821) consisting of 86 letters. It was used in teaching the elements of reading and writing to many Indians.
39. It is called General Sherman (1820-1891), after a famous American General of the Civil War (1861-1865). The tree is 272 feet (83 m) high. The widest part of its trunk is more than 30 m. around and more and 11 m. across. A big crowd of people can hide behind this tree.

40. It is a twisted cone pine tree that is more than 4,600 years old, grows in a mountain forest in California.

41. On March 1, 1872, the US Congress accepted Cornelius Hedges', an explorer of the Rocky Mountains, suggestion to create Yellowstone National Park. The 8^th President Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) signed the bill and the first national park was created as “a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”

42. It is called Old Faithful, which erupts regularly 30-56 meters into the air many times each day to the delight of thousands of sightseers.

43. The Rocky Mountains National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Yosemite National Park, Grand Canyon National Park etc.

44. For its canyon of the Colorado River. This mile-deep slash in the earth had sheer walls banded in shades of red, black, green, and brown.

45. It is Acadia National Park, situated on Morent Desert Island along Maine's coast. The American millionaire John D. Rockefeller gave some land to start Acadia National Park.