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Which of the following is not used to define a physiographic province? |
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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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April 19, 1775 is associated with what? |
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· Minutemen National Historic Park, Shot heard around the world, Lexington and Concord
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1864 is associated with Yosemite National park |
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· 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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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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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, golden spike on transcontinental railroad)
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True or False-
John Wesley Powell lost his arm at Gettysburg. |
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False, he lost it at Shiloh |
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What physiographic province is the Grand Canyon located in? |
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Judge Cornelius Hedges is associated with what national park? |
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Yellowstone National Park |
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True or False-
Judge Cornelius Hedges was a member of the Ferdinandy Haden expedition that went to Yellowstone in 1861? |
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Lees Fairy is associated with which national park? |
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Lees fairy is on the Colorado River, downstream from the Glenn Canyon Dam? |
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Who 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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Who was the first person to envision a national park (Yellowstone)? |
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What national park is Paul Revere associated with? |
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Fredrick Law Olmstead is associated with which of the following places? |
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Which of the following places is not associated with Fredrick Law Olmstead? |
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Yosemite National Park is in what Physiographic province? |
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Niagara Falls is in what Physiographic province? |
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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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Minutemen National Historic Park is in what physiographic province? |
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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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Map A has a scale of 1-24,000 and Map B has a scale of 1-400,000.
Which is larger? |
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Besides the use of hillock, hachures, and contour lines, how else can you show relief? |
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Name the forester who worker on the Biltmore estate in North Carolina? (chosen by Fredrick Olmstead) |
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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? |
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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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What did Powell recommend for a family that had irrigation? |
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Who is considered the father of landscape architecture? |
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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 in E Minor and From the new world |
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Harpers Ferry, Great Smokey Mountains |
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Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, Monticello |
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Cape Atterick Ookeefenkee, Atchafalaya |
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New York City, Minutemen, Boston, Vermont |
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John Aster put advertisement in St. Louis paper to engage young men? |
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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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What president signed the Mariposa Yosemite grant in 1864? |
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Name the physiographic province whose water drains internally not to the ocean? |
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- angle, distance, direction, area, scale *(a globe is required) |
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- smaller area, more detail, larger RF #, denominator smaller |
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larger area, less detail, smaller RF #, denominator larger |
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a lot of cities around it |
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2 or more psychographic provinces |
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The painter that went into Yellowstone with Jackson was? |
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American Society of Civil engineers (7 wonders) |
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interstate highway Kennedy state center world trade center hoover dam golden gate pipe line |
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Act that passed that set aside monuments was? |
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Who designed Central park? |
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Who wrote Mirror of America? |
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Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote what piece?
Who were the main characters?
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Ride the Rockies and Save your Soul , 1916
She is the main character.
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Which person traveled with Mary Rinehart in her 1916 article? |
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Who wrote old Yellowstone days? |
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True or False-
John Palter wrote Old Yellowstone Days? |
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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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True or False-
The report written by Olmstead on Yellowstone has shaped a management of all national parks |
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Who received the property of the Yosemite? |
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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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Concord Hymn celebrates what? |
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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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The month of February was represented by what in Aldo Leopold’s almanac? |
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- Forrester in Service in National Forrest in Mexico
- proposed wilderness area
- 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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What physiographic province is Leopold associated with? |
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Who wrote a nations park? |
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George Catlin an artist and painter who painted Native Americans aka Indians ( he painted the noble savage) |
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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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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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True or False?
David Harmon stated in Mirror of America the good poetry about parks is easy to define because of the grandeur of national parks? |
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· False….He said it was very difficult to find good poetry about national parks
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Owen Wister and it was about the west |
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Who wrote Free Verse promoted by Harriet Monroe from Chicago? |
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Name the painter who painted Indians? |
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Who wrote Gulping the Great West? |
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Thomas Wolfe- 10 National Parks, 13 days, of travel |
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“Those ashes come spring, I will return to the orchid at the foot of the sprill hill”… |
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Next morning rejoicing about clovers and fresh sessions of rain and fresh bark of an oak? |
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Aldo Leopold “The Good Oak” |
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“musktcrap… 8in long 6in tall” |
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Annie Dillard- pilgrim; Pulitzer prize winner |
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“Rabbits and mice..Hawks, owls prey on them” |
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Old immigrant road measured the stump with diameter of 30 inches? |
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When muskrat went under the bridge he reappears with an 8 inch body? |
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It is quite worthwhile to learn what a docile creature is a mule going down? |
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We were not to be swayed always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things? |
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“The main duty… every advantage practical…peculiar to this ground… other parts of the domain… in its natural scenery”… |
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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”… |
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing long enduring? |
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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”… |
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Abe Lincoln. Gettysburg National Military Park |
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Cities call I have heard them but only voice is call of the Rockies and I shall return? |
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I could ask no other monument than reputation of founding such a great institution? |
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On tour to the Yellowstone? |
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What did Thomas Wolfe write? |
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Gulping of the Great West |
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