Q 01/05

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve lies about how far southwest of Anchorage?

A) 100 miles

B) 30 miles

C) 60 miles

D) 250 miles

Answer · why

A) 100 miles

There are no roads in; visitors come by small aircraft, usually floatplanes, or by boat along the Cook Inlet coast.

Q 02/05

Which two volcanoes stand within the park near Cook Inlet?

A) Spurr and Augustine

B) Katmai and Novarupta

C) Redoubt and Iliamna

D) Wrangell and Drum

Answer · why

C) Redoubt and Iliamna

Mount Spurr sits just outside to the east; both park volcanoes are stratovolcanoes rising through a granite range.

Q 03/05

Mount Redoubt has erupted how many times since it was first observed, most recently in 1989 and 2009?

A) 2

B) 4

C) 6

D) 11

Answer · why

B) 4

The confirmed eruptions came in 1902, 1966, 1989 and 2009, with doubtful ones in 1881 and 1933; the 1989 ash reached 45,000 feet.

Q 04/05

What happened to KLM Flight 867 when it flew through Redoubt's ash cloud in December 1989?

A) It was struck by lightning

B) Its windows shattered

C) All four engines failed before restarting

D) It was diverted to Tokyo

Answer · why

C) All four engines failed before restarting

The 747 fell 13,000 feet before the pilots relit the engines and landed safely; four other planes were damaged, a wake-up call about volcanic ash haza...

Q 05/05

How high is Mount Redoubt?

A) 8,650 feet

B) 9,400 feet

C) 9,900 feet

D) 10,197 feet

Answer · why

D) 10,197 feet

Its 1.8-kilometre summit crater feeds the Drift Glacier through a gap in the rim; the 2009 eruption sent lahars down the Drift River toward an oil ter...