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Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Roughly how many geysers are there inside Yellowstone National Park?
More than half of all the world's geysers are here, crowded into a few basins such as the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins.
Which Yellowstone geyser is the world's tallest active geyser, able to throw water more than 300 feet high?
Steamboat erupts on no schedule, unlike Old Faithful; one quiet stretch between major eruptions ran roughly 50 years.
What kind of hydrothermal feature is Yellowstone's Old Faithful?
A cone geyser shoots water through a narrow vent that its own mineral deposits built into a cone-shaped mound.
Which US president signed the law that made Yellowstone the world's first national park?
The 1872 act gave the new park no money at all, so its first superintendent, Nathaniel Langford, served unpaid and could not hire any rangers.
Which rock landform gives Torres del Paine National Park its name?
The three granite towers are ancient magma cores exposed after softer surrounding rock eroded away.
Which mountains run along Kruger National Park's eastern edge?
The low Lebombo ridge separates Kruger from Mozambique and rises only a few hundred meters above the plains.
What carved the deep fiords of Fiordland National Park?
Ice Age glaciers gouged deep valleys that later filled with seawater to form the steep-walled fiords.
Which two provinces share Kruger National Park?
The park stretches about 360 kilometers from Limpopo in the north to Mpumalanga in the south.
Which turquoise lake sits inside Banff National Park?
Glacial rock flour gives Lake Louise its turquoise color and flows from Victoria Glacier.
Torres del Paine National Park lies in which Chilean region?
Magallanes is Chile's southernmost region and includes Punta Arenas, a starting point for Antarctic voyages.