DENALI NATIONAL PARK is 17% covered by glaciers. The park is over six million acres of land, and is a little larger than the state of Massachusetts. The most common clouds that appear over BYERS LAKE include cumulus and stratus.
DENALI NATIONAL PARK is 17% covered by glaciers. The park is over six million acres of land, and is a little larger than the state of Massachusetts. The most common clouds that appear over BYERS LAKE include cumulus and stratus.
DENALI NATIONAL PARK is 17% covered by glaciers. The park is over six million acres of land, and is a little larger than the state of Massachusetts. The most common clouds that appear over BYERS LAKE include cumulus and stratus.
Due to air temperature rising over time, it is becoming thinner and losing mass. That makes the sea levels rise, and it affects the downstream supply of freshwater. The water flows southward from the summit of Denali (Mt. McKinley). It goes from 886 ft. above sea level to an altitude of 20,013 ft. Glaciers are formed where more snow piles up than melts every year. The snow compresses after falling, and new snow makes it more dense. Over the years, layers of firn form, creating a giant mass of solid ice. Glaciers exert so much pressure and are so heavy that the snow melts, and that helps the bottom more able to spread.
Stop 4: Kahiltna Glacier
Stop 1: Byers Lake
The park is over six million acres of land,
and is a little larger than the state of Massachusetts. There are about 12,200 lakes and ponds, and there are 18,700 miles of streams. It was established in 1917 and was originally called Mount McKinley National Park. There are 169 species of birds in the park. Nearly half a million people visit every year. The park is 17% covered by glaciers. Obama changed the name of Mt. McKinley back to its native name, Denali.
WITH FOUR STOPS AND OBSERVING THE GEOGRAPHY OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN DENALI NATIONAL PARK. BEGIN: PETERSVILLE AIRPORT STOP 1: BYERS LAKE STOP 2: WONDER LAKE STOP 3: MOUNT MCKINLEY STOP 4: KAHILTNA GLACIER END: PETERSVILLE AIRPORT
STOP 1: BYERS LAKE
The most common clouds that appear over
Byers Lake include cumulus and stratocumulus clouds. Cumulus clouds are formed when warm air rises from the ground, and by evaporation, carries water vapor. The warm wet air meets cold air as it rises, and the vapor gets colder and condenses into water droplets, which forms clouds.
STOP 2: WONDER LAKE
There are more than 1,500 species of vascular
plants, lichens, and mosses in the park. Since it is a sub-arctic wilderness, the plants must be adapted to long and extremely cold winters. 10,000 to 14,000 years ago, continental glaciers retreated, and it took hundreds of years for new soil to grow for re-vegetation.
The amount of moisture in the thermal that
produces the cloud affects the height at which the cloud is formed.
The various species all come from natural
processes of birth, growth, and spreading of native species.
They can be made of water droplets, ice
crystals, supercooled water droplets, or all of them together.
Most shrubs and trees dont fully grow
because of thin soil and the climate.
Stratocumulus clouds are formed by shallow
and weak convection currents, possibly from turbulent airflows up above. They are both low-level clouds-they usually form under 6,600 ft. Photo of Byers Lake from http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/couple-andyoung-girl-in-a-red-canoe-on-byers-lake-royalty-freeimage/527524769
At Wonder Lake, there are mostly spruces
and willows, as well as tundra. There are also bogs, taiga, tundra, and the most common trees are black and white spruce. Photo of Wonder lake from http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/npimage.dena1560.html
STOP 3: MT. MCKINLEY
It is the tallest mountain in North America
at 20,310 ft. high. It is one of very few mountains that are composed of almost all one rock, this one being granite. Granite is an igneous rock that is hard but buoyant. The mountain is able to keep its height since granite doesnt erode easily. Every year, the mountain gains about one millimeter in height due to the North American and Pacific Plates converging. Since it erodes more slowly and is pushed up more easily than rocks in neighboring mountains, the mountain is higher. The mountain is a granitic pluton, which is magma that cooled and solidified under the surface. Photo of Mt. McKinley from http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/ 2015_36/1200341/150831-nps-mt-mckinley-denaliyh-0122p_e4143768dc359ccb5a1fd7170d648eac.nbc news-fp-1200-800.jpg