NOTE: You will need to bring one Scantron Form 882-E, a number 2 pencil, and a calculator for the test. The calculator must be a traditional calculator, not a cell phone, Palm, PDA, laptop, computer, watch, or any other non-traditional calculator.
Know what the five spheres of the Earth and if they have any interaction.
Know what the gradient of a stream is and how to determine it given data.
Know how gravity affects high-density and low-density materials.
Know what porosity, permeability, and percolation are.
Know which kind of rock (earth material) is most porous from the following: sandstone, granite, basalt, clay, and limestone.
Know how caves are formed and in what type of rock they are commonly formed in.
Know how temperature and salinity affect the density of ocean water.
Know what the saturated zone, unsaturated zone, water table, aquifer, and groundwater are.
Know that deep water currents exchange atmospheric O2 and deep sea CO2
Know what active and passive margins are and the characteristics of each are.
Know the different types of glacial features and know what the zone of accumulation and zone of ablation are.
Know about glacial valleys and glacial erosional and depositional features.
Understand strike and dip in terms of geologic structures.
Know how to tell if a fault is a normal, reverse, or transform by the movement of the hanging and footwalls.
Know about longshore currents and their characteristics.
Know about seismographs and seismograms, know triangulation, and understand S, P, and surface waves.
Know what an earthquake is, what its epicenter is, and what its focus is.
Know physical and chemical weathering and basic characteristics of each.
Know what role liquid plays in mass wasting and the types of landslides.
Know what the angle of repose is.
Know what subsidence is and under what circumstances you will find it.
Know about river meanders (why and where they meander), cut banks, point bars, and oxbow lakes.
Know about the two types of liquid waste and which type of bacteria is the most effective way to filtrate it.
Know the main types of landfills.
Know what an anticline and syncline are and where in each you will find the oldest and youngest rocks.
Know the principles of original horizontality and superposition.
Know the principle of intrusions.
Know the crosscutting relationships principle.
Know what mass, volume, and density are and how to solve for density.
Know about storage of radioactive waste and why the examples we discussed in the lab were bad ideas.
