Study Guide for Exam 1

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Study Guide

Quizzes 1 and 2 will be repeated on the exam. Note: The numbers used in the quiz 1 problem will be different but the question will be worded the same.

There are 6 multi-part questions on the exam. (That includes the quiz questions.) Additional topics that are covered will be:

• Residence time
  • What is it?
  • How does residence time control movement of pollution through different reservoirs.

• Resources:
  • What is a renewable resource?
  • What is a nonrenewable resource?
  • What is sustainable development?
  • Be able to give examples of each of the above.

• Plate tectonics:
  • Very similar questions to quiz 2 about continent-ocean collision and mid-ocean ridge divergence
  • Be able to draw similar cross-sections for each.

• Rock cycle:
  • How is a sedimentary rock vs. igneous rock vs. metamorphic rock formed?
  • What are the rock names we covered in class and where are they formed? (By what process?)
  • How do these rocks change during metamorphism?

• What is seismology and what does it tell us?

• What is paleomagnetism and what does it tell us?