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Question 1

What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering? Provide at least two examples of each.

Question 2

What relationship exists between climate and weathering?

Question 3

What is mass wasting? Give examples of landform features created by these gravitational effects. Include in your discussion the effect of speed and moisture content on the landform features.

Question 4

Compare and contrast suspension, saltation, and traction as means of material transport by streams. (Refer to the animation “Sediment Transport by Streams.”)

Question 5

Identify and discuss the main drainage patterns. State the reasons the patterns develop.

Question 6

Describe the characteristics of a meandering stream and suggest reasons as to its importance in the widening of a river valley. (Refer to the animation “Meandering Streams.”)

Question 7

Describe the relationship among stream order, stream number, stream length, and the stream’s drainage area.

Question 8

Discuss the three ways a stream can modify the shape of its valley.

Question 9

What unique landscape features are found on a flood plain? Briefly explain the cause of each. (Refer to the animation titled “Meandering Streams.”)

Question 10

Discuss the sequence of events that cause stream rejuvenation. (Refer to the animation titled “Stream Terrace Formation.”)

Question 1

How is it possible for percolating groundwater both to erode and deposit?

Question 2

Why is there a scarcity of surface drainage in a karst area?

Question 3

What is the difference between a hot spring, a geyser, and a fumarole?

Question 4

Produce a list of the landforms that are created in an arid environment with sedimentary bedrock.

Question 5

Describe the hydrography of a typical desert.

Question 6

How important is the wind in the erosion of desert landforms?

Question 7

Why is a desert lake in a basin of interior drainage likely to be a saline lake?

Question 8

Describe the erosion and landform sequences created when a higher elevation plateau is eroded to become a lower elevation plateau. Utilize examples from several of our western national parks.

Question 9

For each of the following landscape features, explain the process by which the feature was created and/or controlled.

a. erg

b. playa

c. bornhardt

d. barchan dune

e. pediment

f. loess

g. butte

Question 1

What types of glaciers are found in high mountain regions?

Question 2

Describe the mechanics of glacial advance and retreat. (Refer to the animations titled “Flow of Ice within a Glacier” and “Glacial Processes.”)

Question 3

Define each of the following glacial landscape features. Present an explanation of the circumstances and processes that created each. If possible, give a well-known specific example of each, e.g., the Matterhorn.

a. drumlin

b. cirque

c. horn

d. glacial trough

e. moraine

f. fjord

g. hanging valley

h. till

i. firn

j. arête

Question 4

Describe the various depositional features left by (a) mountain glaciers and (b) continental glaciers. (Refer to the animation titled “Flow of Ice within a Glacier” and “Glacial Processes.”)

Question 5

What evidence supports the concept that present climates are considerably cooler than those that have prevailed throughout most of the Earth’s history?

Question 6

Explain the roles of beach drifting, tides, and currents in sand transportation. (Refer to the animations titled “Wave Motion and Wave Refraction” and “Coastal Sediment Transport” and “Tides.”)

Question 7

Using the animation titled “Wave Motion and Wave Refraction,” describe the processes that cause elevated coastlines to erode and wear away.

Question 8

What is a tsunami, and why is it sometimes (although incorrectly) called a tidal wave?

Question 9

Describe the development of spits, baymouth bars, tombolos, and the various types of coral reefs.

Question 10

Refer to the animation titled “Coastal Stabilization Structures” and discuss the effect of human activities on coastal stabilization of beach development.

Question 1

Briefly describe the four regions of the Earth’s vertical structure. Please include any of the subdivisions in these regions.

Question 2

What are the principal categories of common rock-forming minerals? Please provide a common example of each category.

Question 3

Distinguish among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock types and their individual subclasses. Provide a common example of each subclass. (Refer to the animation titled “Metamorphic Rock Foliation.”)

Question 4

How can it be that sedimentary rocks are the most widely exposed type on the continents, yet igneous rocks comprise 80 percent of the Earth’s crust?

Question 5

Describe the internal and external processes that shape the Earth’s surface. (a) Provide examples of each of these two groups and (b) describe how they can be operating at the same time.

Question 6

What is the difference between the theory of plate tectonics and the continental drift hypothesis conceived earlier by Alfred Wegener? (Refer to the animation titled “Collision of Indian with Eurasia.”)

Question 7

What evidence from the seafloor supports the idea of seafloor spreading?

Question 8

Discuss the three kinds of plate boundaries. (Refer to the animations titled “Divergent Boundaries,” “Seafloor Spreading,” and “Terrane Formation.”)

Question 9

Explain the differences in stress direction and displacement among the four basic kinds of faults. (Refer to the animations titled “Faulting.”)

Question 10

Describe and explain the general formation, shape, and structure of shield volcanoes, composite volcanoes, and cinder cones. (Refer to the animations titled “Volcanoes” and “Formation of Crater Lake.”)

Question 11

Explain the difference between intrusive and extrusive volcanism. Briefly describe the landforms associated with each. (Refer to the animation titled “Formation of Crater Lake.”)

Question 12

Describe the mechanics of an earthquake. Include in your discussion the location of the earthquake source, seismic waves, and a brief discussion of earthquake hazards. (Refer to the animations titled “Earthquake Waves” and “Seismographs.”)

Question 1

Contrast and explain the concepts of ecosystem and byome.

Question 2

Describe typical xerophytic and hygrophytic adaptations of plants.

Question 3

Name a common tree or other flora that is an example (use no example more than once) of each of the following:

a. gymnosperm

b. angiosperm

c. conifer

d. deciduous

e. evergreen

f. hardwood

g. softwood

h. needleleaf

i. broadleaf

j. Bryophyte

k. Pteridophyte

Question 4

Explain the concept of vertical zonation.

Question 5

List and briefly describe the major forest biomes in order from low to high latitude.

Question 6

Using examples, discuss how both plants and animals have adapted to harsh environmental conditions.

Question 7

Describe and explain the global distribution of the desert biome.

Question 8

List and briefly describe the five principal soil-forming factors.

Question 9

Discuss the composition of soil.

Question 10

Distinguish between field capacity and wilting point.

Question 11

Describe the various horizons from the surface down to bedrock.

Question 12

Discuss the importance of temperature and moisture on the creation of the five pedogenic regimes.

Question 13

Describe the characteristics of the major soil order in the location where you live. Compare and contrast your soil order to that of Mollisols and Spodsols.

Question 14

Name a soil order associated with each characteristic:

a. the largest worldwide distribution by area

b. the most fertile soil

c. the most thoroughly leached and weathered soil

d. the soil order that developed from volcanic ash

Question 15

Using Figure 12-39 briefly describe the soils that you would encounter traveling in a straight line from Brunswick, Georgia, to Bismarck, North Dakota.

Question 1

What is the hydrologic cycle? Explain the role of evaporation, advection, and runoff in the hydrologic cycle. (Refer to the animation titled “Hydrologic Cycle.”)

Question 2

What is the relationship among an ocean’s temperature, density, and salinity? Where would you expect to find high ocean salinity? Low ocean salinity?

Question 3

Why do most oceanic areas experience two high tides and two low tides each day? Describe and explain flood tides, ebb tides, spring tides, and neap tides. (Refer to the animation titled “Tides.”)

Question 4

What is the difference between porosity and permeability?

Question 5

What are the zones of aeration, saturation, and confined water? Include in your discussion the following terms: water table, aquifer, piezometric surface, and groundwater.

Question 6

It is safe to say the biosphere is a system made up of biogeochemical cycles. Briefly describe these cycles.

Question 7

What is the relationship of a food chain to a food pyramid?

Question 8

Describe the four basic conditions that help determine the natural distribution of any species or group of organisms.

Question 9

How does climate exert environmental constraints on biota?

Question 10

What are the beneficial effects of wildfire?

Question 1

Provide a discussion of the characteristics of the six air mass classifications. Viewing Figure 7-1, which specific source region supplies the moisture for winter snows in the north Georgia mountains?

Question 2

What are the different kinds of fronts? Include in your discussion

a. how they are created,

b. cross-sectional slope profiles, and

c. what clouds develop along the fronts [Refer to the animation titled “Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts”].

(Refer to the animation titled “Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts.”)

Question 3

What weather changes normally occur with the passage of a cold front? (Refer to the animation titled “Midlatitude Cyclones.”)

Question 4

Describe the four components of movement of a midlatitude cyclone. Why in the conterminous United States do these cyclones move generally from west to east?

Question 5

Compare and contrast the midlatitude cyclone to the tropical cyclone (hurricane), for each one of the five characteristics listed below. (Refer to the animation titled “Hurricanes.”)

Midlatitude cyclone	Tropical cyclone (hurricane)
latitude of origin
direction of movement
wind speed range
season of occurrence
source of energy

Question 6

Discuss the general sequence of thunderstorm development and dissipation.

Question 7

What is a tornado, and what atmospheric conditions are needed for a tornado to occur? Where worldwide do most tornadoes occur? Which states have the highest incidence of tornadoes? (Refer to the animation titled “Tornadoes.”)

Question 8

What information is conveyed in a climograph?

Question 9

Briefly describe the major climate groups of the modified Köppen climate classification system: A, B, C, D, E, and F.

What are the principal climatic characteristics that define a location as (give specific location examples for each):

Question 10a

tropical wet climate

Question 10b

tropical wet-and-dry

Question 10c

tropical monsoon

Question 11a

What countries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have climates similar to Athens, Georgia?

Question 11b

Describe, in terms of their annual temperature and precipitation patterns, the climates for the following locations:

· Raleigh, North Carolina

· Yuma, Arizona

· Los Angeles, California

· Chicago, Illinois

· Sitka, Alaska

Question 12

What is the general difference between a desert climate and a steppe climate?

Question 13

Why are the locations found along the 30th degree north latitude dry and the locations along the equator wet? Include in your discussion the impact of wind and pressure systems on each location.

Question 14

What are the Milankovitch cycles, and in what ways might they help explain past climate change?