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LA midterm Flashcards

1
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Which of the following is not used to define a physiographic province?

A

Political boundary

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2
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We live (BR) in a section of what physiographic province?

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Costal plain (section- Mississippi river or alluvial plane)

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3
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April 19, 1775 is associated with what?

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Minutemen National Historic Park

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4
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1864 is associated with

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Yosemite National park (This was when the first scenic Reserve set aside by federal action; it was a law giving the park to Sierra Nevada. Abe Lincoln signed it in the Civil War.)

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Who wrote a plan to manage Yosemite, designed roads, and got the law through congress?

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Fredrick Law Olmstead

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March 1, 1872 is associated with? 1st national park ever, and it took 2 yrs to make it a national park

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Yellowstone National Park

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7
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1869 is associated with what?

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Grand Canyon, Colorado, and green river (John Wesley Powell and 8 ppl went down the river)

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8
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T of F- John Wesley Powell lost his arm at Gettysburg.

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False, he lost it at Shiloh

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9
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What physiographic province is the Grand Canyon located in?

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Colorado Plateau

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10
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Judge Cornelius Hedges is associated with what national park?

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Yellowstone National Park

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11
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T or F- Judge Cornelius Hedges was a member of the Ferdinand Haden expedition that went to Yellowstone in 1861?

A

False, Washburn expidition

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12
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Lees Fairy is associated with which national park?

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Grand Canyon Nation Park

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13
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T or F- Lees fairy is on the Colorado River, downstream from Glenn Canyon Dam?

A

True

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14
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Who of the following is not associated with Yellowstone National Park?

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Gifford Pinchot

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15
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What was the occupation of William Henry Jackson?

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Photographer

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16
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Who was the first person to envision a national park(Yellowstone)?

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George Catlin – painter

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17
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What national park is Paul Revere associated with?

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Minutemen National park

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18
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Fredrick Law Olmstead is associated with which of the following places?

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Yosemite

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19
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Which of the following places is not associated with Fredrick Law Olmstead?

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Adirondack Reserve

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20
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Yosemite National Park is in what Physiographic province?

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Sierra Nevada

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21
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Niagara Falls is in what Physiographic province?

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Central lowlands

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22
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Salt Lake City is in what physiographic province?

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Basin and Range ( all drains internally)

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23
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Minutemen National Historic Park is in what physiographic province?

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New England

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24
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You are looking at 3 maps, all the same size of the paper each with a different scale? What scale shows the most area?

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1-250,000

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25
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Map A has a scale of 1-24,000 and Map B has a scale of 1-400,000. Which is larger?

A

Map B is largest

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26
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Besides the use of hillock, hachures, and contour lines, how else can you show relief?

A

Color and Shading

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27
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Name the forester who worker on the Biltmore estate in North Carolina? (chosen by Fredrick Olmstead)

A

Gifford Pinchot

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28
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The American Society of civil engineers, in 1994, listed 7 wonders of the U.S. Which of the following was not on the list?

A

Washington Monument

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29
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John Wesley Powell recommended how much land for a family dependent on livestock?

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The Homestead Act provided 150 acres. 4 sections= 2560 acres is what Powell recommended. 1 section= 640 acres without water

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30
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What did Powell recommend for a family that had irrigation?

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80 acres

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31
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Who is considered the father of landscape architecture?

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Fredrick Law Olmstead

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32
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What piece of music did Ferde Grofe compose?

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Grand Canyon Sweet

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33
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What did Paul Winters compose?

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Canyon Album, River Run

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34
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Divorchak Composed?

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Symphony No. 9 in E Minor and From the new world

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35
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Harpers Ferry, Great Smokey Mountains

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Blue Ridge

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36
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Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, Monticello

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Piedmont

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37
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Cape Atterick Ookeefenkee, Atchafalaya

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Coastal Plain

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38
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New York City, Minutemen, Boston, Vermont

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New England

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39
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John Aster put advertisement in St. Louis paper to engage young men?

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Missouri River

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40
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Tim Palmer said, “Surrounded by the horrors of the civil war the president’s action can be a recognition that we can turn to our native landscape” What landscape was he talking about?

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Yosemite National Park

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41
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What president signed the Mariposa Yosemite grant in 1864?

A

Abe Lincoln

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42
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Name the physiographic province whose water drains internally not to the ocean?

A

Basin and Range

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43
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Mercator Projection

A

1569, Cylinder

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44
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Larger scale-

A

smaller area, more detail, larger RF #, denominator smaller

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45
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Small Scale-

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  • larger area
  • less detail
  • smaller RF #
  • denominator larger
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46
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Fall line-

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a lot of cities around it

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47
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2 or more physiographic provinces make up a what?

A

physiographic regions

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48
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The painter that went into Yellowstone with Jackson was?

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Thomas Merran

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49
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American Society of Civil engineers (7 wonders)

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  • Interstate Highway
  • Kennedy Space Center
  • World Trade Center
  • Hoover dam
  • Panama canal
  • Golden Gate bridge
  • Trans-Alaska pipeline
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50
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Act that passed that set aside monuments was?

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Antiquity act 1906

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51
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Who designed Central park?

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Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux

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52
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Who wrote Mirror of America?

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David Harmon

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53
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Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote what piece?

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Ride the Rockies and Save your Soul , 1916

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54
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Who were the Characters?

A

She is the main character.

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55
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Which person traveled with Mary Rinehart in her 1916 article?

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Howard Eaton

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56
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Who wrote old Yellowstone days?

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Owen Wister, 1936

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57
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T or F- John Palter wrote Old Yellowstone Days?

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False

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58
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Who headed the commission overseeing the Yosemite Grant under the control of the state of CA? (mariposa)

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Fredrick Law Olmstead

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59
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T or F- The report written by Olmstead on Yellowstone has shaped a management of all national parks

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False, his plan was lost

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60
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Who received the property of the Yosemite?

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The state of CA

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61
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The concord hymn commemorates what date?

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April 19, 1775 the battle of Lexington concord

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62
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What did John Muir call Ralph Waldo Emerson?

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He called him a sequoia as a complement

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63
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The month of February was represented by what in Aldo Leopold’s almanac?

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“The Good Oak”

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64
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Who is Aldo Leopold?

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  • Forrester in Service in National Forrest in Mexico… he proposed wilderness areas…
  • Wrote a lot of Newsletters on Protecting Wilderness…
  • Became professor at University of Wisconsin where San County is located…
  • Wrote San County Almanac….Subtitle is Good Oak Title is February
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65
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What physiographic province is Leopold associated with?

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Central Lowlands

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66
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What was in a nation’s park?

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  • A column in newspaper writing about the west loves and respects Indians worried about buffalo…proposed?
  • A nations park…the first idea of the national park in 1832
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67
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David Harmon stated in preface nature writers were?

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John Muir (wrote to the general public) and John Burrows(more popular then)

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68
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David Harmon stated in Mirror of America the good poetry about parks is easy to define because of the grandeur of national parks?

A

False….He said it was very difficult to find good poetry about national parks

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69
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Who wrote the Virginian?

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Owen Wister and it was about the west

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70
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Who wrote Free Verse promoted by Harriet Monroe from Chicago?

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Karl Sandburg

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71
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Name the painter who painted Indians?

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George Catlin

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72
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Who wrote Galoping the Great West?

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Thomas Wolfe- 10 National Parks, 13 days, of travel

73
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“Those ashes come spring, I will return to the orchid at the foot of the sprill hill”…

A

Aldo Leopold.

74
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Next morning rejoicing about clovers and fresh sessions of rain and fresh bark of an oak?

A

Aldo Leopold “The Good Oak”

75
Q

“musktcrap… 8in long 6in tall”

A

Annie Dillard- pilgrim; Pulitzer prize winner

76
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“Rabbits and mice..Hawks, owls prey on them”

A

Annie Dillard

77
Q

Old immigrant road measured the stump with diameter of 30 inches?

A

Aldo Leopold

78
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When muskrat went under the bridge he reappears with an 8 inch body?

A

Annie Dillard

79
Q

It is quite worthwhile to learn what a docile creature is a mule going down?

A

John Burrows

80
Q

Second day on mule back

A

John Burrows

81
Q

We were not to be swayed always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things?

A

John Burrows

82
Q

“The main duty… every advantage practical…peculiar to this ground… other parts of the domain… in its natural scenery”…

A

Frederick Law Olmstead.

83
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“This duty of preservation is the first… millions that are here can benefit… larger interest should be the first and most strenuously guarded”…

A

Olmstead

84
Q

Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing long enduring?

A

Abe Lincoln

85
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It is for us the living whether to be dedicated here to the unfinished work they have carried on….these honored dead we take increased devotion”…

A

Abe Lincoln. Gettysburg National Military Park

86
Q

Cities call I have heard them but only voice is call of the Rockies and I shall return?

A

Mary Robert Rinehart

87
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I could ask no other monument than reputation of founding such a great institution?

A

George Catlin

88
Q

On tour to the Yellowstone?

A

Rudyard Kipling

89
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What did Thomas Wolfe write?

A

Gulping of the Great West

90
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Henry James wrote Reflected Distinction….

A

usually least favorite of students because early on in Mirror of America he has run on sentences but material was fascinating…

91
Q

Preservation for all –

A

Olmstead- got lost

92
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Who wrote “Old Yellowstone Days?”

A

Owen Wister

93
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Who headed commission overseeing the Yosemite under control of the state of California?

A

Fredrick Law Olmsted

94
Q

The Concord Hymn (the shot heard around the world) during the battle of Lexington and Concord, celebrates what date?

A

April 19, 1775

95
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The concord hymn celebrates April 19, 1775, and what else?

A

Minute Man National Historic Park

96
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Which person did Mary Rhinehardt ride through the Rockies with and “Save Your Soul”?

A

Howard Eaton

97
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In which states and province do you find Aldo Leopold’s Sand Counties?

A

Wisconsin – Central Lowlands

98
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Who wrote “A Nation’s Park?”

A

George Catlin

99
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Who published poetry magazine, magazine verses?

A

Published in 1911, by Monroe

100
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Name the painter whose painting is famous for Indian life and who had a letter published in 1833 for protecting the nation’s parks?

A

George Catlin

101
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“These things I ponder as the kettle sings, and the good oak burns to red coal on white ashes. Those ashes, come spring, I will return to the orchard at the foot of the sand hill.” Who wrote or said this or in what book?

A

Aldo Leopold, in “The Good Oak,” Sand County Almanac

102
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The wonderful thing about muskrats, “They are the bread and butter of the food chain.”

A

Annie Dillard

103
Q

“The next morning we came about a great slab and good oaks.”

A

Aldo Leopold

104
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“It is quite worth going down in the canyon only falling in love with the…when he is in good behavior a mule.”

A

John Burroughs wrote this, John Muir was present, John Muir was with Burroughs on the trip down grand canyon, John Muir always going up

105
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“On the 2nd day we made the decent on mule back” go up he said and not down…climb climb.”

A

John Burroughs

106
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“The main duty with which the commission to be charged is to be given every advantage possible and give other parts to its public domain.”

A

Frederick Law Olmsted

107
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“It is for us the living, to be dedicated here to the great past of the nation before us we take the increased devotion.”

A

Abe Lincoln

108
Q

Gettysburg national park is the first park that is a park acquired by?

A

Eminent Domain

109
Q

“Cities call I have heard them but there is no voice so consistent to me as the wordless call of the Rockies. I shall go back.”

A

Mary Roberts Reinhardt

110
Q

Good oaks or sand hill?

A

Aldo Leopold

111
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True or False: Annie Dillard wrote about muskrats?

A

True

112
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True or False: John Burroughs didn’t ride in the canyon on a mule but instead he rode on a horse?

A

False

113
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“I would ask no other monument of memory, nor any other enrollment of the dead than the reputation of being the founder of such a great institution.”

A

George Catlin

114
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Who wrote “On Tour Through the Yellowstone?”

A

Rudyard Kipling

115
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Henry James wrote about what?

A

Philadelphia

116
Q

“Why should this place lead to such great distort landmarks, events that happened there…(Indirect quote)”

A

Henry James *talking about Philadelphia

117
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“Now we are gathered in such a civil war…Can long endure. The duty of preservation falls…because the millions hereafter benefit from the acts…have the largest interest which should be the first and most friendliest garden.”

A

Frederick Law Olmsted

118
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Who was the author of Mirror of America?

A

David Harmon

119
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True/False: Ferde Grofe wrote Symphony No. 9 in the New World.

A

False (Dvorak wrote it) Ferde Grofe wrote “Grand Canyon Suite.” Paul Winters wrote “Canyon” and “River Run.”

120
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The founder of landscape architecture –

A

Frederick Law Olmsted

121
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Which scale shows the most area?

A

Small scale (1:250,000)

122
Q

True or False: The hoover dam was once a “wonder of the world?”

A

true

123
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The Grand Canyon is in what province?

A

Colorado plateau

124
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What sections are within the Colorado Plateau?

A
  • Grand Canyon
  • Monument Valley
  • Painted Desert
125
Q

Minutemen are associated with whom?

A

Paul Revere

126
Q

How much land should be given to a family with livestock?

A

2560 acres

127
Q

How many acres are made from 4 sections?

A

2560

128
Q

Which province has internal drainage?

A

Basin and Range

129
Q

John Wesley Powell –

A
  • Homestead Act of 1862 –

* 160 acres, 80 acres with water

130
Q

What is not possible to represent on a flat top?

A

-Angle
-Distance
-Direction
-Area
-Scale
(One of the above will not be correct )

131
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What is required to get all the special relationships on a map?

A

Globe

132
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What map is projected onto a cylinder and then made flat and was first published in 1569?

A

Mercator

133
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What does Good’s interrupted projection try to do?

A

Tried to compensate for the pullout that happens on the Mercator

134
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What map has areas that are closest to the poles stretched out and they look larger than they really are?

A

Mercator projection on the test, it says smaller, so pay attention

135
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Large scale consists of what?

A

Small area, more detail larger RF number and small denominator

136
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Small scale consists of what?

A

Large area, less detail, smaller RF number and large denominator

137
Q

Best method for showing relief or elevation on a map?

A

Contour lines

138
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What methods are used to show relief or elevation on a map?

A

Hachures, Contour lines, Coloring, and Hillocks (also shading)

139
Q

What is associated with the San Francisco Bay area?

A
  • San Andrea’s fault
  • Earthquakes
  • The “Damned dam” and John Muir fighting against this idea of putting the dam here
  • City burnt down after earthquake and they needed water so they went to the Yosemite.
140
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What was built on the San Andrea’s Vault that was retrofitted with steel rods for resistance to earthquakes?

A

Filoli Mansion/House and Garden

141
Q

Above the Line of Glaciation what can be said?

A
  • Land is compacted and shaped b/c the weight of the ice

- Water and reminisce of the ice are still seen

142
Q

What is the line that is drawn by using the first waterfalls from the Atlantic?

A

Fall line

143
Q

What can be found at the fall line?

A
  • Water falls
  • Rock
  • Good place to build cities
144
Q

How many sections does the Rocky Mountains physiographic province have?

A

4 sections

145
Q

What national park is associated with 1864?

A

Yosemite, first scenic reserve created by federal action

146
Q

What happened on March 1, 1872?

A

Yellowstone National park signed by President Grant

147
Q

What happened in 1869?

A

Grand Canyon became a national park (located in the Colorado plateau), John Wesley Powell went down the Colorado river from the Green River, and Golden spike was laid

148
Q

What happened in 1870 in respect to Yellowstone?

A

Washburn Expidition

149
Q

What happened in 1871 with respect to Yellowstone?

A

Hayden Expidition

150
Q

Who was associated with the Washburn Expidition to Yellowstone?

A

Judge Cornelius Hedges

151
Q

Hayden brought what and who with him?

A

He brought painter, Thomas Moran, and a photographer, William Henry Jackson

152
Q

What is the Yosemite in? (What Province)

A

Sierra Nevada

153
Q

Where is the Niagara Falls?

A

Central Lowlands

154
Q

Where is the Great Salt Lake found?

A

Basin and Range

155
Q

Where is Mammoth Cave found?

A

Interior Low plateau

156
Q

What law protects the Adirondacks?

A

New York Constitution

157
Q

What is located in the Adirondack province?

A

Blue Line

158
Q

What is not one of the 7 US wonders listed by the American Society of Civil Engineers?

A

Washington Monument

159
Q

How much land did Powell say was needed where there was no water?
How much with water?

A 
2560 acres
80 acres (with water)
160
Q

What law gave protection for public land?

A

Antiquities Act of 1906 set aside land for public protection

161
Q

How many years did it take to put Yellowstone into law?

A

2

162
Q

Yellowstone National Park is associated with which of the following people?

A

Ferdinand Hayden

163
Q

What does Tim Palmer talk about?

A

Yosemite ( Talked about it in “Yosemite: Promise of Wilderness” )

164
Q

Who was the forester hired by Olmsted, governor Roosevelt and then President Roosevelt?

A

Gifford Pinchot worked on Biltmore Estate in (NC)

165
Q

Who could plant trees as good as they could cut them down and was the head of the committee of the “Damned dam?”

A

Gifford Pinchot

166
Q

The Rocky Mountain physiographic province is divided into 4 sections. The shaded section was what?

A

Middle Rockies it shows a map with a shaded section

167
Q

The Fall Line separates what?

A

The Piedmont from the Coastal Plain

168
Q

What national park can be associated with 1869?

A

Grand Canyon

169
Q

What was the 1st national park in the world?

A

Yellow Stone National Park

170
Q

Where do you find Lee’s Ferry?

A

Inside the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River

171
Q

How much land should be given to a family with livestock?

A

2560 acres, 4 sections

172
Q

The first scenic reserve created by federal action?

A

Yosemite

173
Q

Map projection that is relatively good in showing landmasses at near the same size –

A

Goode’s Interrupted Projection (orange peel-looking map)

174
Q

Baton Rouge is in which province? What section?

A
  • Coastal Plain <– Section
175
Q

(Physiographic province) Central Lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau

(Physiographic Sections) Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain

A

for 2 separate questions, one asks “which are the provinces?” and the other asks “which are the sections?”

176
Q

A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province (T or F)

A

true

177
Q

Harper’s Ferry, Biltmore Estate – (what province is this)

A

Blue Ridge

178
Q

**there was a question about an article in a newspaper:

A

the answer is MISSOURI

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