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Final Exam Date: May 10  8:00-10:00

The final will have three parts:

I. Essay
II. Geologic problem involving relative age dating
III. Rock identification
IV. Past Quizzes

Review all chapters covered and quizzes. Make sure you thoroughly understand the material covered. General concepts: You should be able to define, discuss in detail, and state the significance of the concepts listed below. Also, be able to discuss how they are all interrelated.

• rock cycle (define, describe the rocks involved, and the forces driving the cycle)
• plate tectonics (discuss the different types of boundaries, their location, and the processes that occur along each)
• earthquakes (causes and distribution)
• volcanic activity (types of volcanic activity, causes, and distribution)
• weathering, mass wasting and erosion (significance and processes)
• geologic hazards (Which areas are more prone to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions & landslides and tsunami. Explain why.)
  

Here is your essay questions:

Discuss in detail how and why the rock cycle, the formation of mountains, volcanic activity, the creation and destruction of the ocean floor, and the distribution of earthquakes are all linked to the process of plate tectonics. In your essay include a discussion of the following processes and features: subduction, seafloor spreading, mid-oceanic ridge, deep-sea trench, continental rifting, formation of mountains, the rock cycle, sedimentary rock formation, igneous activity, composite cones, metamorphism, weathering, erosion, unconformity, streams, and baselevel.

 

You will have a relative age problem such as those in the Geotime outline. (I've added some problems on this page.) Not only will you have to order events and features according to their relative age, you will have to discuss which laws you used, and make a brief interpretationof the geologic events recorded.

• You will have 6 rock specimens. For each specimen you will have to identify whether it's igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic, and describe the general conditions under which it was formed.  For Example igneous rocks will be either intrusive or extrusive, sedimentary rocks will be either beach, evaporite basin, deltaic swamp, or debris flow, and metamorphic rocks will be either low, intermediate or high grade.