Exam 1 Review
Multiple Choice:
1. What are silicate minerals
2. Know the abundant elements in the Earth's crust
3. Know the properties of minerals (hardness, color, fracture, etc.)
4. Know common minerals (feldspar, quartz, etc.)
5. On what scale is hardness measured?
6. Define mineral
7. Know the three basic rock types
8. In which rock type might you best find fossils
9. Examples of chemical sedimentary rocks
10. What is metamorphism and how does it occur?
11. Paleomagnetism?
12. What are the three basic types of volcanoes?
13. How do earthquakes occur and what scales are used to measure them?
14. What is the difference between the epicenter and focus of an earthquake?
15. Who pioneered the continental drift idea and what evidence was given to support it?
16. Tectonic plates can move in three general directions. What are they and what is the result of either continental or oceanic movement in relation to each.
17. Orogenesis?
18. James Ussher and catastrophism?
19. Ring of fire and circum pacific belt?
20. Uniformitarianism?
21. What are the general divisions of the geologic time scale (Eons and eras)
22. Know about absolute and relative time. Which is more accurate and why?
23. How old is the earth believed to be in a modern geologic sense?
24. Sedimentary rock layers and patterns of formation. (cross cutting relationships and depositional layering relationships)
Short answer:
1. Know the Rock Cycle (10 points)
2. Understand earthquake formation and occurrence
3. Understand the cooling relationships between magma and igneous texture
4. See #15 above and understand plate tectonic
5. Understand the three volcanic formations along with pyroclastic materials
1. What are silicate minerals
2. Know the abundant elements in the Earth's crust
3. Know the properties of minerals (hardness, color, fracture, etc.)
4. Know common minerals (feldspar, quartz, etc.)
5. On what scale is hardness measured?
6. Define mineral
7. Know the three basic rock types
8. In which rock type might you best find fossils
9. Examples of chemical sedimentary rocks
10. What is metamorphism and how does it occur?
11. Paleomagnetism?
12. What are the three basic types of volcanoes?
13. How do earthquakes occur and what scales are used to measure them?
14. What is the difference between the epicenter and focus of an earthquake?
15. Who pioneered the continental drift idea and what evidence was given to support it?
16. Tectonic plates can move in three general directions. What are they and what is the result of either continental or oceanic movement in relation to each.
17. Orogenesis?
18. James Ussher and catastrophism?
19. Ring of fire and circum pacific belt?
20. Uniformitarianism?
21. What are the general divisions of the geologic time scale (Eons and eras)
22. Know about absolute and relative time. Which is more accurate and why?
23. How old is the earth believed to be in a modern geologic sense?
24. Sedimentary rock layers and patterns of formation. (cross cutting relationships and depositional layering relationships)
Short answer:
1. Know the Rock Cycle (10 points)
2. Understand earthquake formation and occurrence
3. Understand the cooling relationships between magma and igneous texture
4. See #15 above and understand plate tectonic
5. Understand the three volcanic formations along with pyroclastic materials
Exam 2 Review
Multiple Choice:
1. Where are the headwaters and mouth of streams
2. How does stream gradient effect velocity of the streamflow
3. Know the terms evaporation, transpiration, runoff, infiltration, and precipitation and the overall water or hydrologic cycle
4. At either straight runs or meanders, where is velocity the greatest
5. What is an aquifer
6. What is the water table (zone of saturation/aeration)
7. What is a drainage divide or watershed
8. Describe the structure of a wave (at least 5 parts)
9. Average salinity of the oceans is?
10. What salts are in the ocean
11. Know the difference between confined and unconfined aquifer
12. What does sea level describe
13. What is the difference between mass wasting and weathering
14. What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering
15. What are the typical components of soil
16. What are some example forms of mass wasting
17. With glaciers, what is the zone of accumulation
18. What are some example forms of dunes
19. Know the relative sizes of the oceans
20. Know the general differences between the continental slope, rise, and shelf
21. What are two general controls on ocean salinity
Short answer:
1. Know the Hydrological Cycle (10 points)
2. Know about tides, especially spring/neap tides
3. Why are the oceans salty and the fresh waters fresh?
4. Know 5 structural components of waves
5. Understand where stream velocity and depth would be greatest along a straight or winding stretch of stream.
1. Where are the headwaters and mouth of streams
2. How does stream gradient effect velocity of the streamflow
3. Know the terms evaporation, transpiration, runoff, infiltration, and precipitation and the overall water or hydrologic cycle
4. At either straight runs or meanders, where is velocity the greatest
5. What is an aquifer
6. What is the water table (zone of saturation/aeration)
7. What is a drainage divide or watershed
8. Describe the structure of a wave (at least 5 parts)
9. Average salinity of the oceans is?
10. What salts are in the ocean
11. Know the difference between confined and unconfined aquifer
12. What does sea level describe
13. What is the difference between mass wasting and weathering
14. What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering
15. What are the typical components of soil
16. What are some example forms of mass wasting
17. With glaciers, what is the zone of accumulation
18. What are some example forms of dunes
19. Know the relative sizes of the oceans
20. Know the general differences between the continental slope, rise, and shelf
21. What are two general controls on ocean salinity
Short answer:
1. Know the Hydrological Cycle (10 points)
2. Know about tides, especially spring/neap tides
3. Why are the oceans salty and the fresh waters fresh?
4. Know 5 structural components of waves
5. Understand where stream velocity and depth would be greatest along a straight or winding stretch of stream.
exam 3 review
Multiple Choice:
1. What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
2. How would you best describe air?
3. What is the composition of the atmosphere?
4. What are some minor components of the atmosphere?
5. What affect do aerosols have in the atmosphere?
6. What is the normal (environmental) lapse rate?
7. What is ozone and what does it do?
8. Know about the three type of clouds and the stratification of each.
9. What are the four general layers of the atmosphere and how are they stratified?
10. How does temperature change in each layer of the atmosphere?
11. Why does the earth have seasons?
12. Why are the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer important when describing the seasons?
13. What are the days of each solstice and equinox?
14. How is the date of each determined?
15. Understand the terminology for the change of state of water from gas to liquid, etc.
16. What are the two mechanisms that produce precipitation?
17. What is standard air pressure?
18. How does air pressure change with altitude?
19. How are winds derived?
20. Understand high and low pressure systems and features associated with each.
21. What is the difference between weather and climate?
22. What are isobars and how are they used. How do they relate to wind speed?
23. What is the coriolis effect.
Short answer:
1. See 9 above and describe how and why temperatures differ in each layer.
2. See 21 above
3. See 8 above
4. be able to describe high and low pressure systems and whether each is associated with good or bad weather.
1. What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
2. How would you best describe air?
3. What is the composition of the atmosphere?
4. What are some minor components of the atmosphere?
5. What affect do aerosols have in the atmosphere?
6. What is the normal (environmental) lapse rate?
7. What is ozone and what does it do?
8. Know about the three type of clouds and the stratification of each.
9. What are the four general layers of the atmosphere and how are they stratified?
10. How does temperature change in each layer of the atmosphere?
11. Why does the earth have seasons?
12. Why are the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer important when describing the seasons?
13. What are the days of each solstice and equinox?
14. How is the date of each determined?
15. Understand the terminology for the change of state of water from gas to liquid, etc.
16. What are the two mechanisms that produce precipitation?
17. What is standard air pressure?
18. How does air pressure change with altitude?
19. How are winds derived?
20. Understand high and low pressure systems and features associated with each.
21. What is the difference between weather and climate?
22. What are isobars and how are they used. How do they relate to wind speed?
23. What is the coriolis effect.
Short answer:
1. See 9 above and describe how and why temperatures differ in each layer.
2. See 21 above
3. See 8 above
4. be able to describe high and low pressure systems and whether each is associated with good or bad weather.
