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| Who rode through the rockies with Howard Eaton? |
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| Who wrote "Old Yellowstone Days" |
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| When was "Old Yellowstone Days" written? |
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| Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Mariposa Grant in the state of California? |
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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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| Muir called Emerson a ______. |
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| Which month is the Good Oak represented in? |
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| Who wrote "A Nation's Park"? |
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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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| Who had the idea of national parks? |
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| Who wrote "Galloping the Great West"? |
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| "These things I ponder as the kettle sings..." |
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| "When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved..." |
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| "It is quite to go down the Canyon... mule..." |
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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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| "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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| "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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| "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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| "Now we are engaged in the Great Civil... so conceived and so dedicated.." |
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| True or False. A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province. |
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| Mississippi River Embayment, Alluvial Plain.. Physiographic SECTION or Physiographic PROVENCE? |
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| Central Lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau.. Physiographic SECTION or Physiographic PROVINCE? |
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| Minute Man National Historic Park |
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| Judge Cornelius Hedges is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| Lee Ferry is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| William Henry Jackson is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| Paul Revere is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| Frederick Law Olmstead is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| The Sierra Nevada is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| New England is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| The North Bridge is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| Abraham Lincoln is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| The Minute Man Statue is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| Thomas Moran is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| Major John Wesley Powell is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| John Muir is associated with what national park/monument? |
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| The Rocky Mountain physiographic province is divided into 4 sections. What is the shaded one? |
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| The scale of 1:250,000 shows the most area. (no answer on back) |
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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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| The shaded region is the Piedmont Province (no answer on back) |
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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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| 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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| What province/section drains internally? |
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| Hillocks, hachures, and contour lines all show ________. |
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| What is the first scenic reserve created by federal action? |
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| The N.Y. State Constitution protects... |
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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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| Which of the following cities is NOT located on the Fall Line? |
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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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| Who recommended how much land could support a family on livestock? |
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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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| What act set aside land for public protection? |
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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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| Who wrote "Grand Canyon Suite"? |
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| Who wrote "Canyon" and "River Run"? |
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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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| The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, and the Painted Desert are located in what physiographic province? |
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| Red woods and Port Lovos are located in what physiographic province? |
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| Mono Lake, Salt Lake, and Death Valley are located in what physiographic province? |
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| Harper's Ferry and the Biltmore Estate are located in what physiographic province? |
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| Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia are located in what physiographic province? |
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| Cape Hattaras and the Atchafalaya are located in what physiographic province? |
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| Minute Man, Boston, and Vermont are located in what physiographic province? |
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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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