Midterm Study Guide - Views Landscape | LA 1203, Exams of Architecture

Download Midterm Study Guide - Views Landscape | LA 1203 and more Exams Architecture in PDF only on Docsity! LA 1203 Midterm 1. Which person did Mary Rinehart ride through the Rockies with - Howard Eaton 2. Old Yellowstone Days written in 1936 – Owen Wister 3. Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Mariposa Grant in the state of California– Frederick Law Olmstead 4. Concord Hymn – April 19, 1775 5. Concord Hymn celebrates – The Shot Heard Round the World, Minute Men, and the Rude Bridge Across the Flood 6. John Muir and Ralph Waldo Emerson met in Yosemite. Muir called Emerson a sequoia. 7. Which month is the Good Oak represented in – February 8. Wrote “A Nation’s Park” – George Catlin 9. David Harmon stated in the preface that two authors could be called nature writers – John Muir and John Burroughs 10. John McPhee described your instructor – talks in a slow roll that could get him a job in a movie, hair looks as though a hair or comb would never have invited him to nature, has a yard which is a showcase of natural succession. 11. Owen Wister is noted for writing The Virginian. 12. Frequently used free verse – Carl Sandburg 13. Had the idea of national parks – George Catlin 14. Wrote “Galloping the Great West” – Thomas Wolfe 15. “These things I ponder as the kettle sings . . . .” – Aldo Leopold 16. “When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved . . . “ – Annie Dillard 17. “It is quite to go down the Canyon . . . mule . . . “ – John Burroughs 18. “The main duty with which the Commissioner should be charged . . .this peculiarity exists wholly in its scene.” – Frederick Law Olmstead 19. “It is for us the living to be dedicated to the unfinished work . . .” – Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address) 20. “But we were not to be discouraged . . . there is always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things.” – John Burroughs 21. “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.” – Mary Roberts Rinehart 22. “I would ask no other monument to my memory . . . than the reputation of having been the founder of such an institution.” – Frederick Law Olmstead 23. “Now we are engaged in the Great Civil are . . . so conceived and so dedicated . .” – Abraham Lincoln 24. “The duty of preservation . . . because the millions hereafter can benefit from the act have the largest interest . . . “ – Frederick Law Olmstead 25. A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province. – True 26. Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain – physiographic section 27. Central Lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau – physiographic province 28. Baton Rouge is in the Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain. 29. April 19, 1775 – Minute Man National Historic Park 30. 1864 – Yosemite 31. March 1, 1872 – Yellowstone 32. 1869 – Grand Canyon 33. Colorado Plateau – Grand Canyon 34. Judge Cornelius Hedges – Yellowstone 35. Lee Ferry – Grand Canyon 36. William Henry Jackson – Yellowstone 37. Ferdinand Hayden – Yellowstone 38. Paul Revere – Minute Man 39. Frederick Law Olmstead – Yosemite 40. Sierra Nevada – Yosemite 41. New England – Minute Man 42. North Bridge – Minute Man 43. Abraham Lincoln – Yosemite 44. Minute Man Statue – Minute Man 45. Thomas Moran – Yellowstone 46. Major John Wesley Powell – Grand Canyon 47. John Muir – Yosemite 48. Rocky Mountain physiographic province is divided into 4 sections. The shaded section was Middle Rockies. 49. Which scale shows the most area – 1:250,000 50. The Cascades are located north of the Sierra Nevada province. 51. Shaded region is the Piedmont Province. 52. The Fall Line separates the Piedmont from the Coastal Plain. 53. Map projection that is relatively good in showing landmasses at near the same size – Goode’s Interrupted Projection 54. This type of projection was first published in 1569 – Mercator Projection 55. Drains internally – Basin and Range 56. Hillocks, hachures, and contour lines all show relief. 57. First scenic reserve created by federal action – Yosemite 58. Adirondacks protected by the N.Y. State Constitution. 59. Forester who worked on Biltmore Estate, worked for T. Roosevelt – Gifford Pinchot. 60. Which of the following cities not located on the Fall Line – Mobile, AL 61. American Society of Civil Engineers listed 7 Wonders of the U.S. Which was not on the list – Washington Monument 62. Major John Wesley Powell recommended how much land could support a family on livestock – 2,560 acres or 4 sections 63. The founder of landscape architecture – Frederick Law Olmstead 64. Set aside land for public protection – Antiquities Act 65. Ferde Grofe wrote Symphony No. 9 in the New World – False (Dvorak) Ferde Grofe wrote “Grand Canyon Suite.” Paul Winters wrote “Canyon” and “River Run.” 66. 80 acres with water was needed to support a family through stock raising. – False 67. Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Painted Desert – Colorado Plateau 68. Red Wood, Port Lovos – Pacific Border 69. Mono Lake, Salt Lake, Death Valley – Basin and Range 70. Harper’s Ferry, Biltmore Estate – Blue Ridge 71. Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, University of VA – Piedmont 72. Cape Hattaras, Atchafalaya – Coastal Plain