Abstract: The protection of the geological relics and the moderate tourism exploitation are the two dominating missions for the Geo-park. The Geo-park improves the scientific signification for the tourist attractions and enriches the contents of the tourism research. Being a new research subject, the Geo-park should be concentrated more. From this angle of view and based on the signification of geological science, the tourist cognitive behavior in the Cuihua National Geo-park in Cuihua Mountain, Shaanxi Province China was investigated. The results reveal that tourists are with unprofound cognition in the signification of geological science in National Geo-park; the cognitive degree of female is higher than that of male; the tourist who has the higher diploma shows the higher cognitive degree for the signification of geological science; the tourists who are below 14 and between 45-64 show high cognitive degree; Cuihua National Geo-park obtained the tourist high cognitive appraisal for itsprominence of the landslide geological remains resource. In the end, the paper proposed the definition and pointed out the characteristics of the unprofound cognition of the National Geo-park.

Key words: Cuihua Mountain, the National Geo-park, tourist cognition, unprofound cognition