14 FUN FACTS ABOUT
YELLOWSTONE
By Jeannie Meekins
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Editor: Jennifer Robinson
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14 Fun Facts About Yellowstone / Jeannie Meekins
Summary: A brief look at some fun facts about Yellowstone National Park.
1. Yellowstone National Park. Juvenile Literature. 2. Geysers. Juvenile Literature.
Words: 2198
Reading Level: 7.9
Ages 9 and up.
Yellowstone National Park is full of hot springs, geysers and grizzly bears. It also has stone forests, glass cliffs, a glacial lake and colorful canyons created by rivers and waterfalls. All of this is fuelled by a supervolcano that could erupt, killing millions of people and devastating the world’s climate for years.
Fact 1: Yellowstone National Park is the world’s first National Park
Yellowstone National Park is located in the North West corner of Wyoming, and over the borders into Montana in the north and Idaho in the west. It covers an area of 3468 square miles (8982 square kilometers).
The area is covered in geysers, hot springs, steam vents and mud volcanoes. It contains a lake that is more than 20 miles (32 kilometers) long and a river system with waterfalls and deep colorful canyons cut into the rock. There are glass mountains and petrified forests. There are also great forests and grasslands full of wildlife.
On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed an Act of Congress to make this area a National Park. This makes Yellowstone the first National Park in the world.
The Yellowstone Act of 1872 established laws for the creation and protection of other National Parks.
Fact 2: Yellowstone is a supervolcano
A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s surface that allows molten rock, ash and gas (called magma) from the Earth’s interior to escape.