Q 01/05

Zion National Park is in which U.S. state?

A) Utah

B) Arizona

C) Nevada

D) Colorado

Answer · why

A) Utah

It sits where three great geographic provinces meet, which is why its plant and animal life is so varied.

Q 02/05

Which town sits at the park's south entrance and shares its territory with the park?

A) Kanab

B) Springdale

C) Cedar City

D) St. George

Answer · why

B) Springdale

The first settler family farmed the canyon in summer and wintered there in the 1860s.

Q 03/05

The North Fork of which watercourse carved Zion Canyon?

A) Virgin River

B) Green River

C) Sevier River

D) Paria River

Answer · why

A) Virgin River

Its gradient of 50 to 80 feet per mile is one of the steepest of any stream in North America, and it moves about 3 million tons of rock and sand a yea...

Q 04/05

The canyon's reddish and tan walls are made of which rock formation?

A) Kaibab Limestone

B) Navajo Sandstone

C) Chinle Formation

D) Wingate Sandstone

Answer · why

B) Navajo Sandstone

It was laid down as a vast desert of dunes; nine formations in the park record about 150 million years of Mesozoic sediment.

Q 05/05

Roughly how deep is Zion Canyon at its deepest?

A) Up to 800 feet

B) Up to 1,500 feet

C) Up to 2,640 feet

D) Up to 5,000 feet

Answer · why

C) Up to 2,640 feet

It runs 15 miles long, and the road up it ends after 6 miles.