Badlands

These are the questions.• What year did your park become an official National Park?• Why was this area recognized as a National Park?• From a geologist's perspective, how was the park formed?• What types of rocks can be found inside your park?• What special landforms or geographic features are a part of your park?• How is the land inside your park currently changing?• What environmental issues are affecting your park?• Find one topographic or relief map that helps you understand more about

the landforms and geographic features of your park. Download and SAVE this map as an image on your h-drive (be sure to record the source of your information).

• Find, save and identify the source of Pictures and Diagrams that will help identify and explain various geological features inside your park.

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Answers • The badlands were established on 03/04/1929. • It was found as a national park after Indians were driven out.• By wind and water eroding it.• you can find fossils in the rocks.• cliffs and plains• Getting eroded by wind• Poachers stealing fossils•

Answer to number 7