Transcript National Park - Readington.K12.nj.us

By Chloe Rivera
Location
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Region- Southwest
State-Arizona
Capital-Phoenix
Longitude-111.5095°W
Latitude-33.8948°N
Landforms
• The Grand canyon has steep cliffs wining
path and high peeks
• It is about 277 miles long and up to 18
miles wide in some places
• It is one mile deep from the edge of the
floor
• A canyon is a deep valley with steep walls
on both sides formed by erosion
Culture
• The first people who lived in the Grand
canyon was a tribe of Native Americans
called Archaic
• The person who came next was a
European explorer named Garcia Lopez
de Cardenas
• In 1869 a geologist named John Wesley
Powell traveled through the canyon with a
team of men
Waterways
• It is hard to believe that the Colorado River
made the Grand Canyon
• About six million years ago the Colorado
River began to cut through the different
layers of the earth’s rock.
• The Colorado River runs through the
lowest parts of the canyon at 1,450 miles
long
Rocks and Minerals
• There are many different kinds of rocks
and minerals in the Grand Canyon
• Limestone is a kind of rock that is formed
underwater
• The oldest rocks found in the canyon is
Granite and Schist
• Limestone, Shale, and Sandstone can all
be found in the Grand Canyon