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1. The accompanying photo shows ______ , an Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park that visitors can access only by climbing down a steep trail and negotiating a 34-foot ladder.
a. Square Tower House
b. Spruce Tree House
c. Balcony House
d. Cliff Palace
2. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial visitors who take the Gateway Arch tram to enjoy stunning panoramic views of the St. Louis vicinity ride inside the legs of the arch in five-seat pods that take four minutes to get to the observation deck atop the ______ - foot high structure.
a. 505
b. 630
c. 700
d. 812
3. If you were sitting on the edge of the ______, the tallest cliff in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, your feet would be dangling 2,250 feet above the Gunnison River.
a. Painted Wall
b. Salathe Wall
c. Endless Wall
d. Chinese Wall
4. Many a climber of glaciated mountains has slipped and fallen to his death from ______ , a long, narrow ridge or spur that has dangerously steep slopes on both sides of its crest.
a. an arête
b. an alpenglow
c. a bergshrund
d. a cirque
5. True or false? Yosemite National Park regulations allow a park visitor to set up and walk a slackline suspended thousands of feet above the valley floor.
6. True or false? New River Gorge National River visitors can take ranger-led tours of the New River Gorge Bridge catwalk, which is suspended more than 800 feet above the river.
7. True or false? In Zion National Park more fatal falls have occurred on Angels Landing Trail, a very exposed route that climbs nearly 1,500 feet vertical feet along a steep, narrow ridge, than on all of the other park trails combined.
8. True of false? To tour the Skywalk that juts out from the Grand Canyon’s rim over 4,000 feet of empty space, people must pay a tour fee and possess a valid Grand Canyon National Park admission pass.
9. True or false? People with reservations to visit the Statue of Liberty’s crown may climb to the crown’s observation deck via the double-helix stairway, but are not permitted to climb the ladder that extends into the crown.
10. True or false? Every year, crews suspended by ropes attached to the top of Mount Rushmore National Memorial inspect the huge granite sculptures, seal surface cracks, and perform related work.
Extra Credit Question:
11. What is the main difference between vertigo and acrophobia?
Super Bonus Question:
12. Which actress played the female lead (with James Stewart) in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological thriller Vertigo?
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com...81-vertigo5720
Answers at bottom of the above link, but first try to answer with out peeking
a. Square Tower House
b. Spruce Tree House
c. Balcony House
d. Cliff Palace
2. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial visitors who take the Gateway Arch tram to enjoy stunning panoramic views of the St. Louis vicinity ride inside the legs of the arch in five-seat pods that take four minutes to get to the observation deck atop the ______ - foot high structure.
a. 505
b. 630
c. 700
d. 812
3. If you were sitting on the edge of the ______, the tallest cliff in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, your feet would be dangling 2,250 feet above the Gunnison River.
a. Painted Wall
b. Salathe Wall
c. Endless Wall
d. Chinese Wall
4. Many a climber of glaciated mountains has slipped and fallen to his death from ______ , a long, narrow ridge or spur that has dangerously steep slopes on both sides of its crest.
a. an arête
b. an alpenglow
c. a bergshrund
d. a cirque
5. True or false? Yosemite National Park regulations allow a park visitor to set up and walk a slackline suspended thousands of feet above the valley floor.
6. True or false? New River Gorge National River visitors can take ranger-led tours of the New River Gorge Bridge catwalk, which is suspended more than 800 feet above the river.
7. True or false? In Zion National Park more fatal falls have occurred on Angels Landing Trail, a very exposed route that climbs nearly 1,500 feet vertical feet along a steep, narrow ridge, than on all of the other park trails combined.
8. True of false? To tour the Skywalk that juts out from the Grand Canyon’s rim over 4,000 feet of empty space, people must pay a tour fee and possess a valid Grand Canyon National Park admission pass.
9. True or false? People with reservations to visit the Statue of Liberty’s crown may climb to the crown’s observation deck via the double-helix stairway, but are not permitted to climb the ladder that extends into the crown.
10. True or false? Every year, crews suspended by ropes attached to the top of Mount Rushmore National Memorial inspect the huge granite sculptures, seal surface cracks, and perform related work.
Extra Credit Question:
11. What is the main difference between vertigo and acrophobia?
Super Bonus Question:
12. Which actress played the female lead (with James Stewart) in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological thriller Vertigo?
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com...81-vertigo5720
Answers at bottom of the above link, but first try to answer with out peeking