LA midterm Flashcards
Which of the following is not used to define a physiographic province?
Political boundary
We live (BR) in a section of what physiographic province?
Costal plain (section- Mississippi river or alluvial plane)
April 19, 1775 is associated with what?
Minutemen National Historic Park
1864 is associated with
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.)
Who wrote a plan to manage Yosemite, designed roads, and got the law through congress?
Fredrick Law Olmstead
March 1, 1872 is associated with? 1st national park ever, and it took 2 yrs to make it a national park
Yellowstone National Park
1869 is associated with what?
Grand Canyon, Colorado, and green river (John Wesley Powell and 8 ppl went down the river)
T of F- John Wesley Powell lost his arm at Gettysburg.
False, he lost it at Shiloh
What physiographic province is the Grand Canyon located in?
Colorado Plateau
Judge Cornelius Hedges is associated with what national park?
Yellowstone National Park
T or F- Judge Cornelius Hedges was a member of the Ferdinand Haden expedition that went to Yellowstone in 1861?
False, Washburn expidition
Lees Fairy is associated with which national park?
Grand Canyon Nation Park
T or F- Lees fairy is on the Colorado River, downstream from Glenn Canyon Dam?
True
Who of the following is not associated with Yellowstone National Park?
Gifford Pinchot
What was the occupation of William Henry Jackson?
Photographer
Who was the first person to envision a national park(Yellowstone)?
George Catlin – painter
What national park is Paul Revere associated with?
Minutemen National park
Fredrick Law Olmstead is associated with which of the following places?
Yosemite
Which of the following places is not associated with Fredrick Law Olmstead?
Adirondack Reserve
Yosemite National Park is in what Physiographic province?
Sierra Nevada
Niagara Falls is in what Physiographic province?
Central lowlands
Salt Lake City is in what physiographic province?
Basin and Range ( all drains internally)
Minutemen National Historic Park is in what physiographic province?
New England
You are looking at 3 maps, all the same size of the paper each with a different scale? What scale shows the most area?
1-250,000
Map A has a scale of 1-24,000 and Map B has a scale of 1-400,000. Which is larger?
Map B is largest
Besides the use of hillock, hachures, and contour lines, how else can you show relief?
Color and Shading
Name the forester who worker on the Biltmore estate in North Carolina? (chosen by Fredrick Olmstead)
Gifford Pinchot
The American Society of civil engineers, in 1994, listed 7 wonders of the U.S. Which of the following was not on the list?
Washington Monument
John Wesley Powell recommended how much land for a family dependent on livestock?
The Homestead Act provided 150 acres. 4 sections= 2560 acres is what Powell recommended. 1 section= 640 acres without water
What did Powell recommend for a family that had irrigation?
80 acres
Who is considered the father of landscape architecture?
Fredrick Law Olmstead
What piece of music did Ferde Grofe compose?
Grand Canyon Sweet
What did Paul Winters compose?
Canyon Album, River Run
Divorchak Composed?
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor and From the new world
Harpers Ferry, Great Smokey Mountains
Blue Ridge
Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, Monticello
Piedmont
Cape Atterick Ookeefenkee, Atchafalaya
Coastal Plain
New York City, Minutemen, Boston, Vermont
New England
John Aster put advertisement in St. Louis paper to engage young men?
Missouri River
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?
Yosemite National Park
What president signed the Mariposa Yosemite grant in 1864?
Abe Lincoln
Name the physiographic province whose water drains internally not to the ocean?
Basin and Range
Mercator Projection
1569, Cylinder
Larger scale-
smaller area, more detail, larger RF #, denominator smaller
Small Scale-
- larger area
- less detail
- smaller RF #
- denominator larger
Fall line-
a lot of cities around it
2 or more physiographic provinces make up a what?
physiographic regions
The painter that went into Yellowstone with Jackson was?
Thomas Merran
American Society of Civil engineers (7 wonders)
- Interstate Highway
- Kennedy Space Center
- World Trade Center
- Hoover dam
- Panama canal
- Golden Gate bridge
- Trans-Alaska pipeline
Act that passed that set aside monuments was?
Antiquity act 1906
Who designed Central park?
Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux
Who wrote Mirror of America?
David Harmon
Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote what piece?
Ride the Rockies and Save your Soul , 1916
Who were the Characters?
She is the main character.
Which person traveled with Mary Rinehart in her 1916 article?
Howard Eaton
Who wrote old Yellowstone days?
Owen Wister, 1936
T or F- John Palter wrote Old Yellowstone Days?
False
Who headed the commission overseeing the Yosemite Grant under the control of the state of CA? (mariposa)
Fredrick Law Olmstead
T or F- The report written by Olmstead on Yellowstone has shaped a management of all national parks
False, his plan was lost
Who received the property of the Yosemite?
The state of CA
The concord hymn commemorates what date?
April 19, 1775 the battle of Lexington concord
What did John Muir call Ralph Waldo Emerson?
He called him a sequoia as a complement
The month of February was represented by what in Aldo Leopold’s almanac?
“The Good Oak”
Who is Aldo Leopold?
- 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
What physiographic province is Leopold associated with?
Central Lowlands
What was in a nation’s park?
- 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
David Harmon stated in preface nature writers were?
John Muir (wrote to the general public) and John Burrows(more popular then)
David Harmon stated in Mirror of America the good poetry about parks is easy to define because of the grandeur of national parks?
False….He said it was very difficult to find good poetry about national parks
Who wrote the Virginian?
Owen Wister and it was about the west
Who wrote Free Verse promoted by Harriet Monroe from Chicago?
Karl Sandburg
Name the painter who painted Indians?
George Catlin
Who wrote Galoping the Great West?
Thomas Wolfe- 10 National Parks, 13 days, of travel
“Those ashes come spring, I will return to the orchid at the foot of the sprill hill”…
Aldo Leopold.
Next morning rejoicing about clovers and fresh sessions of rain and fresh bark of an oak?
Aldo Leopold “The Good Oak”
“musktcrap… 8in long 6in tall”
Annie Dillard- pilgrim; Pulitzer prize winner
“Rabbits and mice..Hawks, owls prey on them”
Annie Dillard
Old immigrant road measured the stump with diameter of 30 inches?
Aldo Leopold
When muskrat went under the bridge he reappears with an 8 inch body?
Annie Dillard
It is quite worthwhile to learn what a docile creature is a mule going down?
John Burrows
Second day on mule back
John Burrows
We were not to be swayed always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things?
John Burrows
“The main duty… every advantage practical…peculiar to this ground… other parts of the domain… in its natural scenery”…
Frederick Law Olmstead.
“This duty of preservation is the first… millions that are here can benefit… larger interest should be the first and most strenuously guarded”…
Olmstead
Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing long enduring?
Abe Lincoln
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”…
Abe Lincoln. Gettysburg National Military Park
Cities call I have heard them but only voice is call of the Rockies and I shall return?
Mary Robert Rinehart
I could ask no other monument than reputation of founding such a great institution?
George Catlin
On tour to the Yellowstone?
Rudyard Kipling
What did Thomas Wolfe write?
Gulping of the Great West
Henry James wrote Reflected Distinction….
usually least favorite of students because early on in Mirror of America he has run on sentences but material was fascinating…
Preservation for all –
Olmstead- got lost
Who wrote “Old Yellowstone Days?”
Owen Wister
Who headed commission overseeing the Yosemite under control of the state of California?
Fredrick Law Olmsted
The Concord Hymn (the shot heard around the world) during the battle of Lexington and Concord, celebrates what date?
April 19, 1775
The concord hymn celebrates April 19, 1775, and what else?
Minute Man National Historic Park
Which person did Mary Rhinehardt ride through the Rockies with and “Save Your Soul”?
Howard Eaton
In which states and province do you find Aldo Leopold’s Sand Counties?
Wisconsin – Central Lowlands
Who wrote “A Nation’s Park?”
George Catlin
Who published poetry magazine, magazine verses?
Published in 1911, by Monroe
Name the painter whose painting is famous for Indian life and who had a letter published in 1833 for protecting the nation’s parks?
George Catlin
“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?
Aldo Leopold, in “The Good Oak,” Sand County Almanac
The wonderful thing about muskrats, “They are the bread and butter of the food chain.”
Annie Dillard
“The next morning we came about a great slab and good oaks.”
Aldo Leopold
“It is quite worth going down in the canyon only falling in love with the…when he is in good behavior a mule.”
John Burroughs wrote this, John Muir was present, John Muir was with Burroughs on the trip down grand canyon, John Muir always going up
“On the 2nd day we made the decent on mule back” go up he said and not down…climb climb.”
John Burroughs
“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.”
Frederick Law Olmsted
“It is for us the living, to be dedicated here to the great past of the nation before us we take the increased devotion.”
Abe Lincoln
Gettysburg national park is the first park that is a park acquired by?
Eminent Domain
“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.”
Mary Roberts Reinhardt
Good oaks or sand hill?
Aldo Leopold
True or False: Annie Dillard wrote about muskrats?
True
True or False: John Burroughs didn’t ride in the canyon on a mule but instead he rode on a horse?
False
“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.”
George Catlin
Who wrote “On Tour Through the Yellowstone?”
Rudyard Kipling
Henry James wrote about what?
Philadelphia
“Why should this place lead to such great distort landmarks, events that happened there…(Indirect quote)”
Henry James *talking about Philadelphia
“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.”
Frederick Law Olmsted
Who was the author of Mirror of America?
David Harmon
True/False: Ferde Grofe wrote Symphony No. 9 in the New World.
False (Dvorak wrote it) Ferde Grofe wrote “Grand Canyon Suite.” Paul Winters wrote “Canyon” and “River Run.”
The founder of landscape architecture –
Frederick Law Olmsted
Which scale shows the most area?
Small scale (1:250,000)
True or False: The hoover dam was once a “wonder of the world?”
true
The Grand Canyon is in what province?
Colorado plateau
What sections are within the Colorado Plateau?
- Grand Canyon
- Monument Valley
- Painted Desert
Minutemen are associated with whom?
Paul Revere
How much land should be given to a family with livestock?
2560 acres
How many acres are made from 4 sections?
2560
Which province has internal drainage?
Basin and Range
John Wesley Powell –
- Homestead Act of 1862 –
* 160 acres, 80 acres with water
What is not possible to represent on a flat top?
-Angle
-Distance
-Direction
-Area
-Scale
(One of the above will not be correct )
What is required to get all the special relationships on a map?
Globe
What map is projected onto a cylinder and then made flat and was first published in 1569?
Mercator
What does Good’s interrupted projection try to do?
Tried to compensate for the pullout that happens on the Mercator
What map has areas that are closest to the poles stretched out and they look larger than they really are?
Mercator projection on the test, it says smaller, so pay attention
Large scale consists of what?
Small area, more detail larger RF number and small denominator
Small scale consists of what?
Large area, less detail, smaller RF number and large denominator
Best method for showing relief or elevation on a map?
Contour lines
What methods are used to show relief or elevation on a map?
Hachures, Contour lines, Coloring, and Hillocks (also shading)
What is associated with the San Francisco Bay area?
- 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.
What was built on the San Andrea’s Vault that was retrofitted with steel rods for resistance to earthquakes?
Filoli Mansion/House and Garden
Above the Line of Glaciation what can be said?
- Land is compacted and shaped b/c the weight of the ice
- Water and reminisce of the ice are still seen
What is the line that is drawn by using the first waterfalls from the Atlantic?
Fall line
What can be found at the fall line?
- Water falls
- Rock
- Good place to build cities
How many sections does the Rocky Mountains physiographic province have?
4 sections
What national park is associated with 1864?
Yosemite, first scenic reserve created by federal action
What happened on March 1, 1872?
Yellowstone National park signed by President Grant
What happened in 1869?
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
What happened in 1870 in respect to Yellowstone?
Washburn Expidition
What happened in 1871 with respect to Yellowstone?
Hayden Expidition
Who was associated with the Washburn Expidition to Yellowstone?
Judge Cornelius Hedges
Hayden brought what and who with him?
He brought painter, Thomas Moran, and a photographer, William Henry Jackson
What is the Yosemite in? (What Province)
Sierra Nevada
Where is the Niagara Falls?
Central Lowlands
Where is the Great Salt Lake found?
Basin and Range
Where is Mammoth Cave found?
Interior Low plateau
What law protects the Adirondacks?
New York Constitution
What is located in the Adirondack province?
Blue Line
What is not one of the 7 US wonders listed by the American Society of Civil Engineers?
Washington Monument
How much land did Powell say was needed where there was no water?
How much with water?
2560 acres 80 acres (with water)
What law gave protection for public land?
Antiquities Act of 1906 set aside land for public protection
How many years did it take to put Yellowstone into law?
2
Yellowstone National Park is associated with which of the following people?
Ferdinand Hayden
What does Tim Palmer talk about?
Yosemite ( Talked about it in “Yosemite: Promise of Wilderness” )
Who was the forester hired by Olmsted, governor Roosevelt and then President Roosevelt?
Gifford Pinchot worked on Biltmore Estate in (NC)
Who could plant trees as good as they could cut them down and was the head of the committee of the “Damned dam?”
Gifford Pinchot
The Rocky Mountain physiographic province is divided into 4 sections. The shaded section was what?
Middle Rockies it shows a map with a shaded section
The Fall Line separates what?
The Piedmont from the Coastal Plain
What national park can be associated with 1869?
Grand Canyon
What was the 1st national park in the world?
Yellow Stone National Park
Where do you find Lee’s Ferry?
Inside the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River
How much land should be given to a family with livestock?
2560 acres, 4 sections
The first scenic reserve created by federal action?
Yosemite
Map projection that is relatively good in showing landmasses at near the same size –
Goode’s Interrupted Projection (orange peel-looking map)
Baton Rouge is in which province? What section?
- Coastal Plain <– Section
(Physiographic province) Central Lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau
(Physiographic Sections) Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain
for 2 separate questions, one asks “which are the provinces?” and the other asks “which are the sections?”
A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province (T or F)
true
Harper’s Ferry, Biltmore Estate – (what province is this)
Blue Ridge
**there was a question about an article in a newspaper:
the answer is MISSOURI
