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LA 1203-midterm
LA 1203- midterm
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
03/04/2012

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Term

It is not possible to represent on a flat map the spatial relationships of ___, _____, ______,______, and ____.

 

All on the same projection, a _____ is required.

Definition

angle, distance, direction, area, scale

 

globe

Term
Goode's Interruption Projection "orange peel" trie to solve problems of
Definition
Mercator projection
Term
smaller area, more detail, denominator small
Definition
large scale
Term
large area, smaller RF number, denominator large
Definition
small scale
Term
ways of showing relief or elevation on a map
Definition
hillocks, hachures, contour lines, color/shading
Term
Fiolo Mansion (brick house) and garden water commissioner's house on a fault
Definition
San Fransico Bay area, California San Andreas Fault
Term
one of the seven wonders of the world
Definition
Golden Gate Bridge
Term
show maximum extent of continental glaciation
Definition
lines
Term
Yellowstone, Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming Basin
Definition
Rocky MOuntain physiographic region
Term

multiple section make up a:____

multiple provinces make up a:____

Definition

province

region

Term
at the foot of Appalacian Mountains
Definition
Piedmont
Term
separate Piedmont from Coastal Plain
Definition
fall lines
Term
Baton Rouge is located in ______ Physiographic Province and ________ Embayment section.
Definition

Coastal Plains

Mississippi River

Term

went down the Grand Canyon

wrote book on western arid lands in 1878 recording how much land to give to families

Definition
John Wesley Powell
Term
created by knowledge of eastern US, only had 150 acres, trying to expand country
Definition
Homestead Act
Term

___ acres (4 sections) needed to support a family without water

____ acres with water

Definition

2,560

80

Term
land west of the 98th meridian
Definition
arid
Term
What is the date associated with Minuteman Natural historic park, midnight ride of Paul Revere, Battle of Lexington/Concord
Definition
April 19, 1775
Term
What year was the first scenic reserve created by federal action in Yosemite National Park?
Definition
1864
Term
What date was Yellowstone signed into law by Ulysses S. Grant, first nation park inthe world?
Definition
March 1, 1872
Term
The painter that had the idea for national parks, tooke 2 years to get it.
Definition
Georgy Catling
Term
Grand Canyon National Park, John Wesley Powell went down the canyon river with his troop of 8 other people
Definition
1869
Term
Lee's ferry is associated with ______.
Definition
Grand Canyon national park
Term
Colorado plateau region associated with which national park?
Definition
Grand Canyon
Term
Judge Cornelius Hedges associated with _____.
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
What party was Judge Cornelius Hedges with?
Definition
The Washburn Expedition
Term
What is the name of the expedition that came one year after the Washburn Expedition?
Definition
Hayden Expedition (1871)
Term
Hayden Expedition associated with which two  people?
Definition

Thomas Moran

William Henry Jackson

Term
Yellowstone associated with which photographer?
Definition
William Henry Jackson
Term
Who painted with William Henry Jackson and his painting is located in the capitol?
Definition
Thomas Moran
Term
Thomas Moran
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
Ferdinand D. Haden
Definition
Yellowstone National Park
Term
Forestor came up with planting trees, Biltmore Estate forester for Teddy Roosevelt
Definition
Gifford Pinchot
Term
Which of the following people is not associatd with Yellowstone?
Definition
Gifford Pinchot
Term
Gifford Pinchot's idea
Definition
planting trees as well as cutting them down
Term
Gifford Pinchot became friends with who to establish forests all over America
Definition
John Muir
Term
What was the profession of William Henry Jackson?
Definition
photographer
Term
Yellowstone National Park is associated with who?
Definition
Ferdinand B. Hayden
Term
Frederick Law Olmstead is associated with which national park?
Definition
Yosemite
Term
Was Yosemite the first national park?
Definition
no, the first scenic reserve
Term
Forester chosen by Olmstead to work in Biltmore
Definition
Gifford Pinchot
Term
Paul Revere
Definition
Minute Man national park
Term
John Muir
Definition
Yosemite
Term
Yosemite National Park, Central Park, Yosemite, Biltmore Estate, Niagra Falls, Mariposa company
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
Term
Not associated with Olmstead
Definition
Adirondacks
Term
Which physiographic province is Yosemite in?
Definition
Sierra Nevada
Term
Niagra Falls
Definition
Central Lowlands
Term
Niagra Falls
Definition
Central Lowlands
Term
Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, Monticello
Definition
Piedmont
Term
Cape Haterus
Definition
coastal plain
Term
Yosemite
Definition
Sierra Nevada
Term
Basin and Range (internal drainage)
Definition
Salt Lake
Term
Grand Canyon, Petrified Valley, Sedona
Definition
Colorado Plateau
Term
Mono Lake
Definition
Basin and Range
Term
Cascades
Definition
Sierra Nevada
Term
Mammoth Cave
Definition
Interior Low Plateau
Term
Adirondack's Park (Forever Wild Park) law that protects them
Definition
New York State Constitution
Term
President can set aside land and etc. 1906
Definition
State Antiquities act
Term
Biltmore Estates
Definition
Blue ridge province
Term
Alaska Pipe line, Goldent Gate Bridge, hoover dam, world trade center, panama canal, kennedy space center, intersate roads
Definition
1994 American society of civil engineers
Term
Roosevelt used what federal law to set aside land?
Definition
Antiquities Act
Term
Act passed that allowed executive branch to set aside national monuments
Definition
Antiquity Act in 1906
Term
Grand Canyon, petrified forest
Definition
Colorado Plateau
Term
Redwod, Point Lobo, Fort Ross
Definition
Pacific Border
Term
Harpers Ferry, Biltmore estate, Smoky Mountains
Definition
Blue Ridge
Term
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Stone Mountain
Definition
Piedmont
Term
Ocichoki, Atchafalaya
Definition
Coastal Plain
Term
New York City, Boston, Vermont
Definition
New England
Term
Father of the profession of Landscape Architecture
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
Term
Olmstead designed Central Park and his partner was?
Definition
Vo Regats
Term
Fur company put ad in St. Louis newspaper for what river?
Definition
Missouri River
Term
"...president action can be..." Yosemite and Lincoln
Definition
Tim Plamers book "Promise of Wilderness"
Term
September 20, 1870 entry how members of Washburn Party felt about Yellowstone area
Definition
true
Term
A report on the landsof the Arid Region of teh U.S. with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah, 1878
Definition
John Wesley Powell
Term
What president signed the secenic reserve bill?
Definition
Lincoln
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Yosemite
Term
Nathaniel Langford 1870 journal entry tells members of?
Definition
Washburn
Term
area represented by a host of provinces that operate on and off the earth's surface
Definition
physiography
Term
Which is a physiographic section?
Definition
Mississippi river, alluvial plain
Term
What national park is Lee Ferrick associated with?
Definition
Grand Canyon
Term
Louis Jackson
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
Map projection good in showing landmasses near the same size
Definition
Goode's Interrupted Projection
Term
City not located on Fall Line
Definition
Mobile, AL
Term
wrote symphony No.9 in the New World
Definition
Dvorak
Term
Ferde Gorfe wrote _____.
Definition
Grand Canyon Suite
Term
Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Painted Dessert
Definition
Colorado Plateau
Term
Port Lobos, Red Wood
Definition
Pacific Border
Term
Death Valley
Definition
Basin and Range
Term
Cape Hattaras
Definition
Coastal Plain
Term

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Definition
The Shot Heard Around the World
Term
HenryJames
Definition
Reflected Distinction
Term
Owen Wister
Definition
Old Yellowstone Days, The Virginian
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
The Gettysburg Address
Term
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Definition
Ride the Rockies and Save Your Soul
Term
Rudyard Kipling
Definition
On Tour through the Yellowstone
Term
John Burroughs
Definition
Divine Abyss
Term
Harriet Monroe
Definition
Two Yosemite Poems
Term
Carl Sandburg
Definition
Scrapers of the Deep Winds
Term
Thomas Wolfe
Definition
Gulping the Great West
Term
George Catlin
Definition
A Nation's Park
Term
Frederick Law Olmstead
Definition
Preservation for All
Term
James Bryce
Definition
Should Cars be Allowed in Yosemite?
Term
Charles Dickens
Definition
Teh Factories of Lowell
Term
Bayard Taylor
Definition
A Second World
Term
Mark Twain
Definition
The Hawaii Volcanoes
Term
Wallace Stegner
Definition
The Marks of Human Passage
Term
Bernard De Voto
Definition
Footloose in Democracy
Term
Annie Dillard
Definition
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Term
John McFee
Definition
The Atchafalaya
Term
Which person did Mary Rinehart ride through
Definition
Howard Eaton
Term
Trying to capture the image of a noble savage
Definition
George Catlin
Term
One of teh originators of Dude ranching in the West
Definition
Howard Eaton
Term
Who was a bandit in Yellowstone?
Definition
Owen Wister
Term
What did Charles Dickens write abou?
Definition
a London prison
Term
Old Yellowstone Days (1936) and The Virginian were written by who?
Definition
Owen Wister
Term
What physiographic province is Tinker Creek located in?
Definition
Blue Ridge
Term
Frederick Law Olmstead wrote about which National Park?
Definition
Yosemite
Term
Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Maripose Grant in the state of California?
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
Term
Document on how to measure Yosemite, got lost
Definition
Mirror of America
Term
What state received property of Yosemite Mariposoa grant?
Definition
california
Term
Concord Hymm commemorates what date?
Definition
April 19, 1775
Term
What celebrates The Shot Heart Round the World, Minute Men, and the Rude Bridge Across the Flood?
Definition
Concord Hymm
Term
Who wrote teh Concord Hymn?
Definition
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Term
JOhn Muir and Ralph Waldo Emerson met to see what of Yosemite?
Definition
Mariposa Grove
Term
Muir called Emerson?
Definition
sequoia
Term
Which month is the Good Oak (San Country Almanac) represented in?
Definition
February
Term
Gettysburg National Park is teh first park to be acquired by what?
Definition
imminent domain
Term
What was Aldo Leopold's profession?
Definition
forester
Term
Who wrote "A Nation's Park"?
Definition
George Catlin
Term
What physiographic province do you find Sand Country?
Definition
Central Lowlands
Term
What state are teh Sand hills located in?
Definition
Wisconsin
Term
created genre of old western movies
Definition
Teh Virginia
Term
What was George Catlin's profession?
Definition
painter
Term
What painting did Catlin paint?
Definition
the noble savage
Term
Author of the book "Mirror of America"
Definition
David Harmon
Term
David Harmon stated in his preface that only two authors could be nature writers
Definition

John Muir

John Burrows

Term
David Harmon stated that good poetry by professional poets is____.
Definition
hard to find
Term
Who reported about the management of Yosemite?
Definition
Olmstead
Term
April 19, 1775
Definition
Paul Revere's Battle of Lexington
Term
Who wrote the Concord Hymn?
Definition
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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