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LSU LA Midterm
Landscape Architecture Fryling
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
10/09/2012

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Term

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

Definition

Political boundary

Term

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

Definition

Costal plain (section- Mississippi river or alluvial plane)

Term

April 19, 1775 is associated with what?

Definition

·      Minutemen National Historic Park, Shot heard around the world, Lexington and Concord

Term

1864 is associated with Yosemite National park 

Definition

·      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. 

Term

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

Definition

Fredrick Law Olmstead 

Term

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

Definition

Yellowstone Nation Park 

Term

1869 is associated with what?

Definition

·      Grand Canyon, Colorado, and green river (John Wesley Powell and 8 ppl went    down the river, golden spike on transcontinental railroad)

Term

True or False-

John Wesley Powell lost his arm at Gettysburg. 

Definition

False, he lost it at Shiloh 

Term

What physiographic province is the Grand Canyon located in?

Definition

Colorado Plateau  

Term

Judge Cornelius Hedges is associated with what national park?

Definition

Yellowstone National Park 

Term

True or False-

Judge Cornelius Hedges was a member of the Ferdinandy Haden expedition that went to Yellowstone in 1861?   

Definition

False, Washburn 

Term

Lees Fairy is associated with which national park?

Definition

Grand Canyon Nation Park

Term

True or False-

Lees fairy is on the Colorado River, downstream from the Glenn Canyon Dam?

Definition

True 

Term

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

Definition

Gifford Pinchot

Term

What was the occupation of William Henry Jackson? 

Definition

Photographer

Term

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

Definition

George  Catlin – painter

Term

What national park is Paul Revere associated with?

Definition

Minutemen National park

Term

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

Definition

Yosemite

Term

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

Definition

Adirondack Reserve

Term

Yosemite National Park is in what Physiographic province?

Definition

Sierra Nevada

Term

Niagara Falls is in what Physiographic province?

Definition

Central lowlands 

Term

Salt Lake City is in what physiographic province?

Definition

Basin and Range ( all drains internally)

Term

Minutemen National Historic Park is in what physiographic province?

Definition

New England

Term

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

Definition

1-250,000

Term

Map A has a scale of 1-24,000 and Map B has a scale of 1-400,000.

Which is larger?

Definition

Map B is largest

Term

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

Definition

Color and Shading 

Term

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

Definition

Gifford Pinchot

Term

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

Definition

Washington Monument 

Term
John Wesley Powell recommended how much land for a family dependent on livestock?
Definition
The Homestead Act provided 150 acres. 4 sections= 2560 acres is what Powell recommended. 1 section= 640 acres without water 
Term

What did Powell recommend for a family that had irrigation?

Definition

80 acres 

Term

Who is considered the father of landscape architecture?

Definition

Fredrick Law Olmstead 

Term

What piece of music did Ferdet Rovet compose?

Definition

Grand Canyon Sweet 

Term

What did Paul Winters compose? 

Definition

Canyon Album, River Run 

Term

Divorchak Composed?

Definition

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

Term

Harpers Ferry, Great Smokey Mountains

Definition

Blue Ridge

Term

Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, Monticello

Definition

Piedmont

Term

Cape Atterick Ookeefenkee, Atchafalaya

Definition

Coastal Plain

Term

New York City, Minutemen, Boston, Vermont

Definition

New England

Term

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

Definition

Missouri River 

Term

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?         

Definition

Yosemite National Park

Term

What president signed the Mariposa Yosemite grant in 1864? 

Definition

Abe Lincoln 

Term

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

Definition

Basin and Range

Term

Map Projection

Definition

- angle, distance, direction, area, scale *(a globe is required)

Term

Mercator Projection

Definition

1569, Cylinder 

Term

Larger scale

Definition

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

Term

Small Scale

Definition

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

Term

Fall line

Definition
a lot of cities around it
Term

regions

Definition

2 or more psychographic provinces 

Term

The painter that went into Yellowstone with Jackson was?

Definition

Thomas Merran

Term

American Society of Civil engineers (7 wonders)

Definition
interstate highway                                                                                                                    Kennedy state center                                                                                                              world trade center                                                                                                                   hoover dam                                                                                                                             golden gate                                                                                                                              pipe line 
Term

Act that passed that set aside monuments was?

Definition

·      Antiquity act 1906

Term

Who designed Central park?

Definition

Olmstead and Bow 

Term

Who wrote Mirror of America?

Definition

David Harmon 

Term

Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote what piece?

Who were the main characters?

Definition

Ride the Rockies and Save your Soul , 1916  

She is the main character.

Term

Which person traveled with Mary Rinehart in her 1916 article?

Definition

Howard Eaton

Term

Who wrote old Yellowstone days?

Definition

Owen Wister, 1936

Term

True or False-

John Palter wrote Old Yellowstone Days?

Definition
False
Term

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

Definition

Fredrick Law Olmstead 

Term

True or False-

The report written by Olmstead on Yellowstone has shaped a management of all national parks   

Definition
False, his plan was lost
Term

Who received the property of the Yosemite?

Definition

The state of CA

Term

The concord hymn commemorates what date? 

Definition

·      April 19, 1775 the battle of Lexington concord 

Term

Concord Hymn celebrates what?

Definition
All of the above
Term

What did John Muir call Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Definition

He called him a sequoia as a complement 

Term

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

Definition

The Good Oak

Term

Who is Aldo Leopold? 

Definition

  • 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

Term

What physiographic province is Leopold associated with? 

Definition

Central Lowlands

Term

Who wrote a nations park? 

Definition

George Catlin an artist and painter who painted Native Americans aka Indians ( he painted the noble savage)

Term

What was in a nation’s park? 

Definition

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

Term

David Harmon stated in preface nature writers were? 

Definition

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

Term

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? 

Definition

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

Term

Who wrote the Virginian?       

Definition

Owen Wister  and it was about the west 

Term

Who wrote Free Verse promoted by Harriet Monroe from Chicago?

Definition

Karl Sandburg

Term

Name the painter who painted Indians?

Definition

George Catlin 

Term

Who wrote Gulping the Great West? 

Definition

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

Term

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

Definition

Aldo Leopold.

Term

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

Definition

Aldo Leopold “The Good Oak”

Term

“musktcrap… 8in long 6in tall”

Definition

Annie Dillard- pilgrim; Pulitzer prize winner 

Term

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

Definition

Annie Dillard 

Term

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

Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term

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

Definition
Annie Dillard
Term

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

Definition
John Burrows
Term

Second day on mule back 

Definition
John Burrows
Term

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

Definition
John Burrows
Term

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

Definition

Frederick Law Olmstead.

Term

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

Definition
Olmstead
Term

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

Definition
Abe Lincoln
Term

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”…    

Definition

Abe Lincoln. Gettysburg National Military Park

Term

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

Definition

Mary Robert Rinehart

Term

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

Definition
George Catlin
Term

On tour to the Yellowstone?

Definition
Rudyard Kipling
Term

What did Thomas Wolfe write?

Definition

Gulping of the Great West 

Term

Preservation for all 

Definition

·      Olmstead- got lost 

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