NOTE: You will need to bring one Scantron Form 882-E and a number 2 pencil to the test
Know everything from the midterm study guide.
Understand what the rock cycle is and how rocks fit within it.
Know the three rock types: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary and know how they are formed and the properties of each.
Know what felsic, intermediate, mafic and ultramafic mean.
Know what lava and magma are and the difference between the two.
Know what foliation is.
Be prepared to identify the following rocks: rhyolite, pumice, diorite, sandstone, chalk, coal, conglomerate, schist, gneiss, and marble.
Know what the difference between an asymmetric and a symmetric fossil is.
Know what radial symmetry, bilateral symmetry, and pentameral symmetry are with respect to fossils.
Know what colonial fossils are and what sort of living situation they represent.
Know the difference between coiled and spiral fossils.
Be prepared to identify the following fossils: trilobite, ammonite, bivalves, shark teeth, gastropod, blastoid, brachiopod, land plants, coiled nautiloid, and cassiduloid.
Know how the silica content of a volcano influences its shape, type, and eruptive style as well as what type of rock it produces.
Know how to calculate gradient.
Know what the lithosphere, asthenosphere, crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core are, what they are made of, and where they are located.
Know what the epicenter of an earthquake is.
Know what P-waves, S-waves, and surface waves are and the characteristics of each, Know what through what they will and will not travel.
Know about plate tectonics and supercontinents.
Know what mid-ocean ridges and deep-ocean trenches are and where you would find each.
Know about paleomagnetism and the ocean floor, how we use it to age date the floor, and how to calculate the spreading rate of the ocean floor.
Know what hot spots are and how to calculate plate velocity using them.
Know the three types of plate boundaries and the characteristics of each including whether crust is created, destroyed, or neither..
Be able to identify all the tectonic features shown in figure 8 on page 241 in your lab manual.
Know what contour lines are, what they represent, what an index contour is, what a contour interval is, and what a benchmark is.
Be able to use contour lines on a map to determine elevation.
Know what a map scale is and what is unique about 1:24,000 and 1:62,500 map scales.
Know what strike and dip are on a geologic map.
Know what an anticline and syncline are, whether the oldest or youngest rocks are in the center, and whether it dips toward or away from the axis in each.
Understand how a stream system is numbered and be able to do it on a map.
Know what a floodplain is, what a drainage basin is, and what meanders are.
Know what an air pollutant is.
Understand what low and high air pressure are, what they are caused by, and what air patterns they create.
Know what isobars are, what the station model is, and understand how to read and use it.
Know what the Coriolis effect is, how wind direction works, what trade winds and jet streams are, and how wind speed is recorded.
Know what humidity is, what relative humidity is, what the mixing ratio is, saturation, condensation, and the dew point are.
Know how to use a chart, like that on page 358, to determine relative humidity or dew point.
Know what an air mass, front, and hurricanes, cyclones are.
Understand how to read a weather map.
Know what infiltration, groundwater, subsidence, and runoff are.
Know what porosity and permeability are.
Know what a longshore current, spit, lagoon, and barrier island are.
Know what wave crests and troughs are, what a wavelength is, what a wave period is, and how to determine them.
Know about ocean currents (surface and density) and how they work.
Know what an alluvial fan is.
Know about glacial erosion, transportation, and deposition.
Understand about glacial meltwater.
Understand how glaciers shaped the land and what the landforms are called.
Understand how sea level changed in the past and how it could change in the future due to melting glaciers.