Detailed facts about major eastern and southern US National Parks such as Great Smoky Mountains, Acadia, and Everglades, one fact per card.
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- What eastern US National Park is famous for its bluish haze, giving the mountains their name?
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- What mountain range, part of the Appalachians, forms the backbone of Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
- The Great Smoky Mountains (part of the Appalachian Mountains)
- What is notable about Great Smoky Mountains National Park compared to other US national parks in terms of visitation?
- It is the most visited national park in the United States
- What rocky coastal park in Maine is known for Cadillac Mountain, one of the first places in the US to see the sunrise?
- Acadia National Park
- What island makes up most of Acadia National Park's land area?
- Mount Desert Island
- What vast subtropical wetland ecosystem is protected by Everglades National Park in Florida?
- The Everglades' sawgrass marsh and mangrove ecosystem
- What slow-moving 'river of grass' is a defining feature of Everglades National Park?
- The Everglades itself, a shallow, slow-flowing wetland
- What cave system, the longest known in the world, is protected by Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky?
- Mammoth Cave
- What underground rock type, easily dissolved by water, allowed Mammoth Cave's vast passages to form?
- Limestone
- What South Carolina park protects one of the last significant tracts of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the US?
- Congaree National Park
- What river floods Congaree National Park's floodplain forest seasonally, depositing nutrient-rich sediment?
- The Congaree River
- What remote wilderness island in Lake Superior is protected by Isle Royale National Park?
- Isle Royale
- What predator-prey pair has been studied on Isle Royale in one of the longest-running wildlife studies in the world?
- Wolves and moose
- What park in the Florida Keys protects Fort Jefferson and a mostly underwater ecosystem of coral reefs?
- Dry Tortugas National Park
- What is unusual about how most visitors reach Dry Tortugas National Park?
- It is accessible only by boat or seaplane