LA1203

Aldo Leopold has a definition for land ethics

" a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community"

Seneca village was moved so that it could build central park. The park commission, park board, NY state legislature, all wanted the park. what kind of action was that ?

Environmental justice

In 1966, an advertising campaign in the NY times against a dam in the grand canyon caused what action ?

all answers

John Brown raid at Harpers Fairy in 1859 led to which of the following accidents?

Henry David Thoreau writing a piece on civil disobedience

Which of the following people was a conductor in the underground railroad?

Henry David Thoreau

Who combined the science of ecology with morality?

Aldo Leopold

The fight to protect the hecheche was led by which of the following people ?

John Muir

Where was the wilderness society founded?

Shenandoah national park

The date April 19th 1775 is associated with what national park?

Minute Man National Park (Paul Revere)

alluvial fans

deposited by streams at foot of a mountain slope, resemble deltas

Tufa (calcium carbonate)

spring towers in mono lake- basin and range

Hillocks(mountains), Hachures ( looks like centipede), and contour lines (circles)

ways of showing relief or elevation on a map

the point going up rivers that are parallel going into the atlantic or the gulf (where a rapid or waterfall occurs) great spot for cities

the fall line

The American society of civil engineers in 1994 listed "seven wonders of the world", which of the following was not listed?

Washington Monument

The adirondacks park was first designated by the state of NY was shown by a color line on the map drawn by state legislature. What color was that line ?

The Blue Line

What is the name of the winning design in the 1858 design competition for central park in NY city?

The Greensward plan

What is the drainage pattern in the superior uplands Canadian shield?

Deranged (water going every way in the lakes )

The Colorado Plateau provides provinces and encompasses, which states make up the 4 corners?

Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona

Mercator Projection

(CylindricaL) First published in 1569 (looks like the Earth with a square map)

John Jacobs fur company put an advertisement in the newspaper to engage hunters to which of the following rivers to hunt beaver ?

Missouri River

A streamlined hill or ridge composed of glacier drift, the ridge is elongated in the direction of ice movement...the steeper side is the direction where the ice came

Drummond (steep on one side, less steep on other)

In what physiographic province did the Wright brothers conduct their first successful flight ?

Coastal Plain (Kill Devil Hill)

President Teddy Roosevelt created the first national monument what was the name ?

Devils Tower

Yellowstone national park is associated with which of the following people?

Cornelius Hedges

Consider only the following central low land, coastal plains, gulf of Mexico basin, interior low plateau, Mississippi River, Alluvial plane, which of the following are physiographic provinces ?

Coastal lowlands, coastal plain, interior low plateaus

Which river grew and captured the ends of water courses and physiographic provinces?

Shenandoah River

You are looking at 3 maps all on the same size paper. Which scales shows the most amount of area?

1/250,000

Tim Palmer said, "Surrounded by the horrors of the civil war the president's action can be a recognition that we can turn to our native landscape" What landscape was he talking about?

Yosemite

What is Americas largest national forest?

Enyo(Tongass) National forest in Alaska

What is the missing word in Leopold's definition of Land Ethics?

Beauty

Which of the following wrote 'A nations park'?

George Catlin

Who wrote 'it is quite worthwhile to go down into the canyon'?

John Burroughs

"I would ask no other monument of memory, nor any other enrollment of the famous dead than the reputation of have been the founder of such a great institution'. what institution was he talking about ?

The idea in writing of national parks by george Catlin

"Muskrats are the bread and butter of the carnivores food chain" Who was the author ?

annie Dillard

"The main duty with which the commissioners should be charged should be to give every advantage practicable to the mass of people to benefit by that which is peculiar to this ground, and which has caused congress to treat it differently from other parts of the public domain. This peculiarity consists wholly in its natural scenery. " Who was the author ?

Frederick Law Olmsted

Who wrote "Reflected Distinction"?

Henry James

a road trip of 20 days, 10 national parks, and 4632 miles led to Thomas Wolfes last manuscript that was called ?

Gulping the great west

Who wrote 'Mirror of america' ?

David Harmon

Who said 'The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply
this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine each question in
terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.'

Aldo Leopold

What state do you find Aldo Leopold's Sand Counties?

Wisconsin

Which person did Mary Roberts Rinehart travel through the rockies written in collier's article "ride the rockies and save your soul?

Howard Eaton

Who said "This particular oak now aglow on my andirons grew on the bank of the old emigrant road where it climbs the sand hill. The stump, which I measured upon feeling the tree, has a diameter of 30 inches."? Aldo leopold

"Old Yellowstone days" written in 1936 recalls what Yellowstone National Park was like in its earlier years. Who was the author?

Owen Wister

Who wrote "On Tour through the yellowstone"

Rudyard Kipling

True or false: Aesthetics or beauty is part of Aldo Leopolds land ethics.

True