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LSU LA 1203 Midterm
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Undergraduate 2
03/17/2011

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Who rode through the rockies with Howard Eaton?
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Mary Rinehart
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Who wrote "Old Yellowstone Days"
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Owen Wister
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When was "Old Yellowstone Days" written?
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1936
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Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Mariposa Grant in the state of California?
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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Date of Concord Hymn
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1836 (about the Battle of Lexington and Concorde on April 19th, 1775)
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The Concord Hymn celebrates... (3 things)
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The Shot Heard Round the World, Minute Men, and the Rude Bridge Across the Flood
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John Muir and Ralph Waldo Emerson met in ______.
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Yosimite
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Muir called Emerson a ______.
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Sequoia
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Which month is the Good Oak represented in?
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February
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Who wrote "A Nation's Park"?
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George Catlin
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David Harmon stated in the preface that two authors could be called nature writers. They were __________ and _________.
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John Muir and John Burroughs
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John McPhee described your instructor as someone who..
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talks in a slow roll that could get him a job in a movie, has hair that looks as though a comb would have never invited him to nature, and HAS A YARD WHICH IS A SHOWCASE OF NATURAL SUCCESSION.
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Owen Wister is noted for writing what books?
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Old Yellowstone Days and The Virginian
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Who frequently used FREE VERSE?
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Carl Sandburg
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Who had the idea of national parks?
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George Catlin
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Who wrote "Galloping the Great West"?
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Thomas Wolfe
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"These things I ponder as the kettle sings..."
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Aldo Leopold
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"When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved..."
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Annie Dillard
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"It is quite to go down the Canyon... mule..."
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John Burroughs
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"The main duty with which the Commissioner should be charged... this peculiarity exists wholly in its scene."
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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"It is for us the living to be dedicated to the unfinished work..."
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Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Adress)
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"But we were not to be discouraged... there is always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things."
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John Burroughs
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"Cities call I have heard them but they are no voice in all the world so consistent to me than the call of the Rockies."
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Mary Rinehart
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"I would ask no other monument to my memory... than the reputation of having been the founder of such an institution."
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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"Now we are engaged in the Great Civil... so conceived and so dedicated.."
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Abraham Lincoln
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True or False. A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province.
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True
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Mississippi River Embayment, Alluvial Plain.. Physiographic SECTION or Physiographic PROVENCE?
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Physiographic section
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Central Lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau.. Physiographic SECTION or Physiographic PROVINCE?
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Physiographic Province
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April 19th, 1775
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Minute Man National Historic Park
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1864
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Yosemite
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March 1, 1872
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Yellowstone
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1869
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Grand Canyon
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Colorado Plateau
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Grand Canyon
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Judge Cornelius Hedges is associated with what national park/monument?
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Yellowstone
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Lee Ferry is associated with what national park/monument?
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Grand Canyon
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William Henry Jackson is associated with what national park/monument?
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Yellowstone
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Paul Revere is associated with what national park/monument?
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Minute Man
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Frederick Law Olmstead is associated with what national park/monument?
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Yosemite
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The Sierra Nevada is associated with what national park/monument?
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Yosemite
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New England is associated with what national park/monument?
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Minute Man
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The North Bridge is associated with what national park/monument?
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Minute Man
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Abraham Lincoln is associated with what national park/monument?
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Yosemite
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The Minute Man Statue is associated with what national park/monument?
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Minute Man
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Thomas Moran is associated with what national park/monument?
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Yellowstone
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Major John Wesley Powell is associated with what national park/monument?
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Grand Canyon
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John Muir is associated with what national park/monument?
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Yosemite
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The Rocky Mountain physiographic province is divided into 4 sections. What is the shaded one?
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the Middle Rockies
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The scale of 1:250,000 shows the most area. (no answer on back)
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n/a
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The Cascades are located north of what province?
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north of the Sierra Nevada province
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The shaded region is the Piedmont Province (no answer on back)
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n/a
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The shaded region is the Piedmont Province (no answer on back)
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n/a
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What does the Fall Line separate?
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the Piedmont from the Coastal Plain
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What separates the Piedmont from the Coastal Plain?
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the Fall Line
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Which map projection is relatively good in showing landmasses at near the same size?
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Goode's Interrupted Projection
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A map projection published in 1569
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Mercator Projection
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What province/section drains internally?
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BASIN and Range
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Hillocks, hachures, and contour lines all show ________.
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relief
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What is the first scenic reserve created by federal action?
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Yosemite
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The N.Y. State Constitution protects...
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the Adirondacks
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The Adirondacks are protected by ______.
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The N.Y. State Constitution
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Who was a forester who worked on the Biltmore Estate and also worked for Theodore Roosevelt?
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Gifford Pinchot
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Which of the following cities is NOT located on the Fall Line?
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Mobile, AL
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American Society of Civil Engineers listed 7 Wonders of the United States. Which was not on the list?
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Washington Monument
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Who recommended how much land could support a family on livestock?
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Major John Wesley Powell
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How much land did Major John Wesley Powell recommend for a family living on livestock?
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2,560 acres or 4 sections
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The founder of Landscape Architecture
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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What act set aside land for public protection?
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Antiquities Act
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1906
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Antiquities Act
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The Antiquities Act did what?
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Set aside land for public protection.
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Who wrote Symphony No. 9 in the New World
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Dvorak
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Who wrote "Grand Canyon Suite"?
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Ferde Grofe
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Who wrote "Canyon" and "River Run"?
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Paul Winters
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True or False. 2,560 acres with water was needed to support a family through stock raising.
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False
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The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, and the Painted Desert are located in what physiographic province?
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Colorado Plateau
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Red woods and Port Lovos are located in what physiographic province?
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Pacific Border
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Mono Lake, Salt Lake, and Death Valley are located in what physiographic province?
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Basin and Range
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Harper's Ferry and the Biltmore Estate are located in what physiographic province?
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Blue Ridge
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Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia are located in what physiographic province?
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Piedmont
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Cape Hattaras and the Atchafalaya are located in what physiographic province?
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Coastal Plain
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Minute Man, Boston, and Vermont are located in what physiographic province?
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New England
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True or False. Filoli Garden was built by the COMMISSIONER and is located on or near the SAN ANDREAS FAULT.
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True
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