About This Quiz
The highest sand dunes in North America are found in the Great Sand Dunes National Park of Colorado. Take this quiz for a virtual tour of one of America's newest and most majestic national parks.The park lies beneath the Sangre de Cristo ("Blood of Christ") mountains.
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It is in Southern Colorado.
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It was established in 2000.
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It covers an area of 84,670 acres (28,318 hectares).
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It is a combination of sand dunes, desert valley, alpine tundra, and forest.
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They extend over more than 30 square miles (78 square kilometers).
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Humans walked the area about 9,000 years ago.
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They are in the inner dunefield.
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They contain five billion cubic meters of sand.
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Winds from the southwest and northeast blow loose sand into the valley.
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They are over 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) high.
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The Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle and the giant sand treader camel cricket are found nowhere else.
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The forests are populated by spruce, pine, aspen, and cottonwood.
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High Dune is the tallest visible from the visitors' center, although it's not the tallest in the park.
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Its elevation is 650 feet (198 meters).
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The Zapata Falls gush out of a rock crevasse into a pool of cold water.
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You will need to climb the steep trail up to Music Pass.
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They are the largest dunes and were formed by winds blowing in opposite directions.
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These half-moon shaped dunes resulted from ideal conditions of flat land, unidirectional wind and no vegetation.
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They have rhythmic waves caused by a pulsating flow.
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