LA 1201 : LA 1203 Midterm Info
Document Summary
Abraham lincoln signed it and in the sierra nevada province. Lincoln took the time to sign it, fredrick law olmstead pushed for it to be signed. March 1, 1872- yellowstone national park- first national park anywhere! Took 2 years between the wash borne and signing it by grant. Took 20 years to get wilderness grant signed into law. It is not possible to represent on a flat map the spatial relationships of: angle, Goode"s interrupted projection- makes alaska look bigger than mexico. Scale- several ways of showing scale on maps: larger scale, small scale, graphic scale, verbal, fraction, and representative. If you have a large area you have a small area, more detail, Ways of showing relief or elevation (hillocks, color, shading, hachures and contour lines. San francisco bay area- san andres fault- water resouve got water from in. Line shows maximum extent of continental glaciations. Fall line- has a lot of cities along it; it"s along the east coast.
