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BELOW is Extra Credit (see National Parks Tour in Syllabus, this is one of your choices)......

Your Assignment: take a virtual tour or a 3D/photo tour of a national park , your choice from the following links below:

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/project/index.html

http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/index.html

Please answer the following questions related to national parks and your virtual or photo tour:

1). What is the purpose or mission of our national parks?

2). What makes the national park you chose to visit on your virtual tour unique? In other words, why is it a national park?

3). Pick three features of the park you chose and describe these features in detail. Of these three features, which one would you like to see in person, and why?

4). Last question: for the geology 120 course offered this winter intersession, titled geology of our national parks, if you were enrolled in this class (hint!), which national park would you like to see in person and why.

2 pages minimum, typewritten...