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Park Quiz
Question 1 of 5
A Joshua tree looks like a tree, but it is really a kind of what?
The Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) is a member of the yucca family, not a true tree.
Joshua Tree National Park sits where two different deserts meet. Which two?
The higher Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert come together inside the park, which is why so many different plants grow here.
The cholla cactus at the Cholla Cactus Garden has a nickname because of how its spiny joints stick to anything that brushes past. What is it called?
It is called teddy-bear cholla because it looks soft and fuzzy, but its joints detach and grab on, so keep your arms in.
From Keys View you can look out at 5,185 feet across the valley. On a clear day, what body of water can you see?
Keys View stands at 5,185 feet, and on a clear day you can see the Salton Sea and the San Andreas Fault below.
At Cottonwood Spring, people left round holes worn into the rock where they ground seeds long before the park existed. Which people did the National Park Service say used this spring for centuries?
The Cahuilla people used Cottonwood Spring for centuries and left bedrock mortars, the round holes worn into the stone for grinding seeds. The park's homelands are also tied to the Serrano, Chemehuevi, and Mohave peoples.