MIDTERM Flashcards
Who was with Mary Rinehart when she rode through the Rockies?
Howard Eaton
Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosimite Mariposa Grant in the state of California?
Fredrick Law Olmstead
John Muir (founded Sierra Club) and Ralph Waldo Emerson met in Yosemite
Muir called Emerson a sequoia, a sign of respect
Which month is the Good Oak represented in?
February
Who are the two authors that David Harmon stated in the preface who could be called Nature writers?
John Muir and John Burroughs
John McPhee described your instructor
- Talks with a slow roll
- Has very messy hair
- Has an amazing yard
A section is a subdivision of a geographic is physiographic province, true or false?
TRUE
Important events that occurred on April 19th, 1775 are related to what National Park?
Minute Man National Historic Park
What was the first Scientific Reserve created by Federal Action? When?
Yosemite in 1864
Where is Baton Rouge located?
- The Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain
- Coastal Plain
Where did John Powell lose his arm?
During the Battle of Shiloh
What was the other expedition through Yellowstone? Who was is made by?
The Hayden Expedition by Ferdinand Hayden
What is the easiest place to cross the Colorado River?
Lee’s Ferry
Where did Judge Cornelius Hedges go on his expedition? What was it called?
- The Washborn Expedition in Yellowstone
- The idea was born to make Yellowstone a National Park
Who was the photographer that went on the Hayden Expedition into Yellowstone?
William Henry Jackson
What park is Paul Revere associated with?
Minute Man National Historical Park
What park is Fredrick Law Olmstead associated with?
Yosemite, pushed for first Scenic Reserve in 1864
Gifford Pinchot was part of the Yellowstone Park Story, true or false?
FALSE
Who was Gifford Pinchot?
- A forrester for Teddy roosevelt as a Governor and President
- Also worked on the Baltimore Estate
Where is the North Bridge located?
Minute Men National Historical Park
Who was the president when Yosemite became a National Scenic Reserve?
Abraham Lincoln
Where is the Minute Man Statue Located?
The Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord Massachusetts
Who was the Artist on the Hayden Expedition and who’s work hangs somewhere?
Thomas Morgan
What is Major John Wesley Powell associated with?
The Grand Canyon
Which park is John Muir associated with?
Yosemite
The Rocky Mountain physiographic is divided into 4 sections
The shaded section was the Middle Rockies
The Larger the denominator in scale the more area it shows, true or false?
TRUE
Larger scale maps show less are than small scale maps, true or false?
TRUE
Which scale shows the most area?
1:250,000
The Fall Line separates the Piedmont from..
The Coastal Plain
What map projection is relatively good in showing land masses at near the same size?
Goode’s Interrupted Projection
What map projection was first published in 1569, cylindrical projection flattened?
Mercator Projection
Which physiographic province drains internally?
Basin and Range
HILLOCKS (small hill separate from others), HACHURES (short line used for shading/denoting surfaces, drawn in the direction of the slope), and CONTOR LINES (line connecting points on a land surface that have some elevation) ALL SHOW
Relief/elevation
Which of the following cities are not on the Fall Line?
Mobile, Alabama
Little Rock, Arkansas is on the Fall Line, true or false?
TRUE
Which of the following is not one of the 7 wonders of the US as declared by the American Society of Civil Engineers?
The Washington Monument
Major John Wesley Powell recommended how much land could support a family on livestock?
2,560 acres on 4 sections
Who is the founder of Landscape Architecture?
Fredrick Law Olmstead
What act of congress set aside land for public protection? Who was the President at the time?
- Antiquities Act
- Teddy Roosevelt
80 acres with water was needed to support a family through stock raising, true or false?
- FALSE
- Powell recommended 80 acres to a family that had irrogation
Filoli Garden was built by the California Water Commissioner and is located on/near the San Andres Fault, true or false?
TRUE
How many years after the idea of Yellowstone was the park bill signed?
2 years
Nathaniel Bradford Journal Entry, true or false?
TRUE
Missouri River?
- Fur Company
- Beavers
- Jacob Astor
What determines a physiographic region?
- Combinations of landforms, soils. water features, vegetation, and related resources
- NOT political boundaries
- Province: basic unit must be at least 2 or more sections
- Physiographic Region: 2 or more Provinces
Which physiographic province is Mammoth Cave located in?
-Interior Low Plateau (Kentucky)
What area is Fredrick Law Olmstead (the founder of LA) NOT associated with?
Adirondack Reserve
Who wrote the report on management on Yosemite?
Fredrick Law Olmstead
Who wanted to go up the Grand Canyon?
John Muir
Who wanted to go down the Grand Canyon?
John Burroughs
Who is the main character in “Ride the Rockies” and “Save your Soul”?
- Mary Rinehart is the main character
- Howard Eden leads the vacation into the Rockies
What is important about the Gettysburg National Military Park
It was the first National Park acquired through the use of taking land by government
Which of the following is not used to define a physiographic province?
Political Boundary
Who designed Central Park?
Fredrick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux
T/F management of Yellowstone shaped managment for all other parks?
FALSE
Harriet Monroe founded poetry magazine in 1911 giving which author prominence?
Sandberg
national park with the protection of indians
George Catlin
T/F Harmon said it is easy to find national parks poetry
FALSE
Roadside Oak
“…oak grew a diameter of 30 inches”
Leopol
“caused congress to treat it differently…”
commission report
Olmstead
On Tour Through the Yellowstone
Kipman (british)
Preservation for All
Olmstead
which scale shows the most area
small scale
what is not possible to show on a map: angle, distance, direction, area and scale
angle
what is required to get all of the special relationships on a map?
globe
what map projected onto a cylinder and then flattened was first invented in 1569?
Mercator
what map has the area closest to the poles stretched out larger than they actually are?
mercator projection
large scale consists of
smaller area, more detail, larger RF and small denominator
small scale consists of
large area, less detail, smaller RF and larger denominator
best method to show relief or elevation on a map
contour lines
San Francisco Bay area
- San Andreas fault
- earthquakes
- dammed dam (John Muir)
- city burnt down after earthquake so they went to yosemite
fioli mansion and garden
built on san andreas fault with steel rods to resist earthquakes
what does Good’s interrupted projection try to do?
compensate for the pullout that happens on the mercator
above the line of glaciation
land is compacted and shaped because of the ice, and water and reminence of the ice are still seen
line used to draw the first waterfalls from the Atlantic
fall line
what is found on a fall line
waterfalls, rock, good place to build cities
Washburn visitation
Cornelius Hedges
what is located in adirondack province?
blue line
Tim Palmer
Yosemite
head committer of dammed dam, cut down trees as fast as he planted them
Pinchot
on tour through Yellowstone
Kipling
Henry James
Philidelphia
