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| Which happens to be a physiographic section? |
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| -Mississippi river, illuvial plain |
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-Area represented by a host of provinces that operate on and off earths surface soil, water, etc.
-Political Boundaries are not part of this |
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| What happens to be a physiographic province? |
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| Central lowland, coastal plain, interior low plateau |
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| -Coastal plain and MS alluvial coastal plain |
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| (date)Minute man national historic park... patriots day |
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| (date) Yosemite National park ... during civil war Abe Lincoln signed over 10 sq. miles to the state of CA |
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| First Scenic Reserve? who? |
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| Yosemite, Olmstead (head of commission) |
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| (date)Yellowstone.. signed into law by Pres. Grant |
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Yellowstone
-signed into law by Grant
-credit of idea = George Catlin |
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| (date) associated with Grand Canyon |
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| What national park is Lee Ferrick associated with? |
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Grand Canyon
-many mormons crossed colorado river |
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| What province is the Grand Canyon in? |
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| Colorado Plateau provinces |
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| Who is associated with Yellowstone? |
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- Judge Cornelius Hedgens, Louis Jackson, George Catlin
-2nd Lt. Donald Washburn (expidition), Ferdnand V Hayden (expidition a year later) |
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| What park is Paul Revere associated with? |
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| T/F Fred Olmstead was associated with Adirondack Mtns. |
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| Who was perturbed at politics in NYC, went west to help Meraposa company come up with some kind of plan? |
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Fred Olmstead.
-Got bill/proposal signed by licoln |
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| What physiological province is Yosimite in? |
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| What physiological province is Niagra Falls in? |
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| What physiological province is Salt Lake City in? |
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Basin and range.
-its internal drainage- no outlets to the sea |
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| What physiological province is Mono Lake in? |
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| What physiological province is Mammoth Cave in? |
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| What law/act protects Adirondacks Park? what did it do? |
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-State constitution of NY
-makes it forever wild |
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allows president to set aside historic, scientific, valuable lands, artifacts to protect them.
-1906 |
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| What physiological province is Biltmore Estate in? who is associated with it? |
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-Blue Ridge Province
-Olmstead, Pincho |
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| Group of Civil engineers listed 7 wonders of engineering in the US |
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| What are the 7 wonders of engineering? |
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| Alaska Pipeline, Golden gate bridge, Hoover dam, Interstate Hwy, World trade center, Kennedy space center, panama canal |
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| T/F Washington Monument is a 7 wonders of engineering. |
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| Who is the father of the profession of Landscape Architecture? |
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| What law did the fed. law of public protection pass? |
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| What physiological province is the Petrified Valley in? |
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| What physiological province is Sedona in? |
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| What physiological province is Red Woods in? (and pt low,pt ross?) |
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| What physiological province is Harbors Ferry in? |
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| What physiological province is Smokey Mountains in? |
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| What physiological province is Biltmore estates in? |
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| What physiological province is Stone mountain in? |
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| What physiological province is Charlottesville in? |
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| What physiological province is University of Virginia in? |
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| What physiological province is Atchafalaya in? |
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| What physiological province is Okifinokie in? |
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| What physiological province is NYC in? |
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| What physiological province is Boston in? |
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| What physiological province is Vermont in? |
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| What physiological province is minute maid in? |
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| How many years passed between Yellowstone national park and law signed by president? |
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| Fur company, st. Louis newspaper, to hunt beaver in which river? |
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| T/F Nathanial P Langford... September 20,1870 |
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| Who recommended how much land for a family dependent on live stock? |
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| Major John Wesley Powell (4 sections 2560 acres) |
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| (5) It is not possible to represent on a flat map the spatial relationships of: |
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| -Angle, Distance, Direction,Area, Scale |
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| Ways of showing relief or elevation on a map? |
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- Hillocks
-Hachures
-Contour Lines |
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| "A report on the lands of arid region of the US with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah" who, when, about what? |
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-John Wesley Powell
-1878
-about homestead act? |
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| ___ managed correctly, they could have land and was used to maintain a family--thinking of eastern lands--western lands wouldnt work. Dates? |
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| -Homestead Act, 1862-160? |
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| how many acres were needed to support a family through stock raising? |
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| 2560 (4 sections. 1 section=640 acres) |
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| Who was on Ferdinand V Hayden's expedition? |
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| Thomas Loran and William Henry Jackson |
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| Which president signed the Mariposa Yosemite grant? when? |
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| What physiographic province drains internally? |
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| "Surrounded by the horrors of the civil war the President's action can be a recognition that we can turn to our native landscape" |
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| Tim Palmer (book promise of wilderness) yosemite |
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| What did John Wesley Powell recommend for a family that had irrigation? |
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| What Piece of Music did Ferdet Rovet Compose |
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| What did Paul Winters compose? |
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| Symphony No. 9 from the new world |
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| Forrester who worked on the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina? |
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| T/F John Wesley Powell lost his arm at Gettysburg |
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| T/F Judge Cornelius Hedges was a member of the Ferdinand Hayden expedition that went to yellowstone in 1861 |
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| T/F Lees Fairy is on the Colorado River, downstream from Glenn Canyon dam |
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| Which of the following is not associated with Yellowstone national park? |
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| What was the occupation of William Henry Jackson? |
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