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Who was with Mary Rinehart when she rode through the Rockies?

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Howard Eaton

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Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosimite Mariposa Grant in the state of California?

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Fredrick Law Olmstead

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John Muir (founded Sierra Club) and Ralph Waldo Emerson met in Yosemite

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Muir called Emerson a sequoia, a sign of respect

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Which month is the Good Oak represented in?

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February

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Who are the two authors that David Harmon stated in the preface who could be called Nature writers?

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John Muir and John Burroughs

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John McPhee described your instructor

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  • Talks with a slow roll
  • Has very messy hair
  • Has an amazing yard
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A section is a subdivision of a geographic is physiographic province, true or false?

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TRUE

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Important events that occurred on April 19th, 1775 are related to what National Park?

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Minute Man National Historic Park

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What was the first Scientific Reserve created by Federal Action? When?

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Yosemite in 1864

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Where is Baton Rouge located?

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  • The Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain

- Coastal Plain

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Where did John Powell lose his arm?

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During the Battle of Shiloh

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What was the other expedition through Yellowstone? Who was is made by?

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The Hayden Expedition by Ferdinand Hayden

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What is the easiest place to cross the Colorado River?

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Lee’s Ferry

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Where did Judge Cornelius Hedges go on his expedition? What was it called?

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  • The Washborn Expedition in Yellowstone

- The idea was born to make Yellowstone a National Park

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Who was the photographer that went on the Hayden Expedition into Yellowstone?

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William Henry Jackson

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What park is Paul Revere associated with?

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Minute Man National Historical Park

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What park is Fredrick Law Olmstead associated with?

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Yosemite, pushed for first Scenic Reserve in 1864

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Gifford Pinchot was part of the Yellowstone Park Story, true or false?

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FALSE

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Who was Gifford Pinchot?

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  • A forrester for Teddy roosevelt as a Governor and President
  • Also worked on the Baltimore Estate
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Where is the North Bridge located?

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Minute Men National Historical Park

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Who was the president when Yosemite became a National Scenic Reserve?

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Abraham Lincoln

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Where is the Minute Man Statue Located?

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The Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord Massachusetts

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Who was the Artist on the Hayden Expedition and who’s work hangs somewhere?

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Thomas Morgan

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What is Major John Wesley Powell associated with?

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The Grand Canyon

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Which park is John Muir associated with?
Yosemite
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The Rocky Mountain physiographic is divided into 4 sections
The shaded section was the Middle Rockies
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The Larger the denominator in scale the more area it shows, true or false?
TRUE
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Larger scale maps show less are than small scale maps, true or false?
TRUE
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Which scale shows the most area?
1:250,000
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The Fall Line separates the Piedmont from..
The Coastal Plain
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What map projection is relatively good in showing land masses at near the same size?
Goode's Interrupted Projection
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What map projection was first published in 1569, cylindrical projection flattened?
Mercator Projection
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Which physiographic province drains internally?
Basin and Range
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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
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Which of the following cities are not on the Fall Line?
Mobile, Alabama
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Little Rock, Arkansas is on the Fall Line, true or false?
TRUE
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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
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Major John Wesley Powell recommended how much land could support a family on livestock?
2,560 acres on 4 sections
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Who is the founder of Landscape Architecture?
Fredrick Law Olmstead
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What act of congress set aside land for public protection? Who was the President at the time?
- Antiquities Act | - Teddy Roosevelt
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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
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Filoli Garden was built by the California Water Commissioner and is located on/near the San Andres Fault, true or false?
TRUE
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How many years after the idea of Yellowstone was the park bill signed?
2 years
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Nathaniel Bradford Journal Entry, true or false?
TRUE
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Missouri River?
- Fur Company - Beavers - Jacob Astor
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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
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Which physiographic province is Mammoth Cave located in?
-Interior Low Plateau (Kentucky)
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What area is Fredrick Law Olmstead (the founder of LA) NOT associated with?
Adirondack Reserve
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Who wrote the report on management on Yosemite?
Fredrick Law Olmstead
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Who wanted to go up the Grand Canyon?
John Muir
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Who wanted to go down the Grand Canyon?
John Burroughs
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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
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What is important about the Gettysburg National Military Park
It was the first National Park acquired through the use of taking land by government
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Which of the following is not used to define a physiographic province?
Political Boundary
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Who designed Central Park?
Fredrick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux
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T/F management of Yellowstone shaped managment for all other parks?
FALSE
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Harriet Monroe founded poetry magazine in 1911 giving which author prominence?
Sandberg
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national park with the protection of indians
George Catlin
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T/F Harmon said it is easy to find national parks poetry
FALSE
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Roadside Oak
"...oak grew a diameter of 30 inches"
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Leopol
"caused congress to treat it differently..."
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commission report
Olmstead
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On Tour Through the Yellowstone
Kipman (british)
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Preservation for All
Olmstead
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which scale shows the most area
small scale
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what is not possible to show on a map: angle, distance, direction, area and scale
angle
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what is required to get all of the special relationships on a map?
globe
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what map projected onto a cylinder and then flattened was first invented in 1569?
Mercator
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what map has the area closest to the poles stretched out larger than they actually are?
mercator projection
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large scale consists of
smaller area, more detail, larger RF and small denominator
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small scale consists of
large area, less detail, smaller RF and larger denominator
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best method to show relief or elevation on a map
contour lines
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San Francisco Bay area
- San Andreas fault - earthquakes - dammed dam (John Muir) - city burnt down after earthquake so they went to yosemite
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fioli mansion and garden
built on san andreas fault with steel rods to resist earthquakes
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what does Good's interrupted projection try to do?
compensate for the pullout that happens on the mercator
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above the line of glaciation
land is compacted and shaped because of the ice, and water and reminence of the ice are still seen
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line used to draw the first waterfalls from the Atlantic
fall line
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what is found on a fall line
waterfalls, rock, good place to build cities
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Washburn visitation
Cornelius Hedges
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what is located in adirondack province?
blue line
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Tim Palmer
Yosemite
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head committer of dammed dam, cut down trees as fast as he planted them
Pinchot
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on tour through Yellowstone
Kipling
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Henry James
Philidelphia

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