| Dr. Karen Bartels
Office: Main Campus, Science Building Room 142 Phone: (773) 442-6052 E-mail: K-Bartels@neiu.edu Web page: http://www.neiu.edu/~kbartels/bartels.htm |
Office Hours: Tues. 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Weds. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Or by appointment |
Study Guides will be available one week before the quiz or exam....
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Guide for Quiz 3
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Study Guide for Final
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How to do well on essay questions in this class:
Your answers to the essay questions should be written in complete
sentences.
You should restate the question at the beginning.
Give detailed reasons to support your answer. Arrange your
sentences
into logical paragraphs.
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For example:
If the Sample Review Guide contains this information: What is a bicycle? What is a motorcycle?
And the Sample Test Question is: Describe the similarities and differences between bicycles and motorcycles;
This is an example of a good answer:
A bicycle and a motorcycle have much in common, but there are also significant differences. Both are machines with two wheels that are used for transportation. The wheels are lined up one in front of the other. In both cases, the person who operates the machine commonly sits in a seat that is located between the front wheel and the back wheel. When power is applied to turn some gears that turn the back wheel, the machine can move forward. The operator steers the machine in the direction they want to travel by turning handle bars attached to the front wheel. This is possible because the front wheel pivots on the frame of the machine. However, a motorcycle is larger, heavier, more complex, and more expensive than a bicycle. This is because a motorcycle is powered by a motor, much like a car, whereas a bicycle is powered by a human being.
Why is this a good answer?
It is written in complete sentences, and the sentences are logically organized into a paragraph.
The first sentence restates the question, and it also tells the reader what the rest of the paragraph is going to be about.
The writer gave very specific details about what the two objects have in common, both in terms of describing what they look like and in explaining how they work.
The writer also gave specific details about how the objects differ.
What else could the test-taker have done in answering this question?
Perhaps she or he could have drawn some sketches
of the bicycle and motorcycle to illustrate the written descriptions.
Suggestions for how to do well on
quizzes and exams:
Study.
Get a good night's sleep beforehand.
Read through the entire exam before answering any questions.
Begin with the most difficult questions.
Don't get stuck: If you are not getting anywhere on a question,
move on to another one.
Remember to breathe! If you find you are getting tense, put down
your pencil, close your eyes and take several deep breaths. Take
a moment to ease the tension, then resume.
Make sure you are answering the question! Read the question
carefully. Answer the question that is asked. If it is a
multi-part
question, make sure you have answered all the parts.
If you are unsure about a question, ask the instructor for
clarification.
She might not be able to provide it, but it never hurts to ask.
If you need to do some calculations, show all of your steps and explain
them. Even if you can do it in your head, don't.
Pay attention to units. (Example: If the question is "How
old is the earth?" and you write down "4.5," that is incorrect
because
it is just a number. Since the question is asking for an age, you
need appropriate units, in this case a unit of time. A correct
answer
would be "the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old.")
If you are not sure of an answer, write down what you do know, or how
you would answer the question if you had more information or more time.
Study Guide for Quiz 1:
The quiz will be 20 minutes long and
will
cover the material from Ch. 1 - 4 of the textbook and the information
from
classes 5/24 and 5/26.
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You should be able to:
Locate Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef National Parks on a blank map of the US and on a blank map of the particular states in which they are located.
Recognize which park is which from photographs, topographic maps, geologic maps, geologic cross-sections and geologic columns.
Describe what types of rocks (and their ages, on the scale of geologic eras) are exposed in each park. Know the geologic time scale on the most general level (Precambrian time, Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era and Cenozoic Era).
Explain why some sedimentary rock types form steep cliffs and some form more gentle slopes.
Describe the environment of deposition of the Tapeats sandstone, Bright Angel Shale and Muav Limestone formations (hint, page 24-25).
Describe the environment of deposition of the Navajo Sandstone (see p. 36-38).
Describe the environment of deposition of the Claron formation (see p. 53-53)
Define, and recognize (on maps, photos and cross sections), nonconformities, disconformities, angular unconformities, normal faults and monoclines.
Explain the formation of the pinnacles (hoodoos) in Bryce Canyon.
The quiz will be 20 minutes long and will cover the material from
Ch.
14 and 15 of the textbook and the information from class 6/2.
These review questions are meant as a guide to the type of material
the quiz will cover. These will not be the questions on the exam
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You should be able to:
Locate Mammoth Cave and Wind Cave National Parks on a blank map of the US and on a blank map of the particular states in which they are located.
Recognize which park is which from photographs (of the surface of the park and of the caves), geologic maps, geologic cross-sections and geologic columns.
Describe what types of rocks (and their ages, on the scale of geologic eras) are exposed in each park. Know the Paleozoic Era of the geologic time scale on the Period level (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississipian, Pennsylvanian, Permian).
Summarize the geologic history of both caves.
Explain the difference between the vadose zone and the phreatic zone, and describe what the water table is.
Describe how limestone forms.
Explain why limestone can be so soluble in water.
Describe the formation of cave passages in the vadose zone vs. the formation of cave passages in the phreatic zone. Are the mechanisms the same or different? What types/shapes of cave passages get produced?
Explain the formation of stalactites, stalagmites, soda straw stalactites, helictites, gypsum flowers, cave lining, cave rafts, popcorn, frostwork and boxwork.
Explain why there is a lot of boxwork in Wind Cave. Explain
why
there aren't a lot of stalactites and stalagmites in either Mammoth
Cave
or Wind Cave.
The quiz will be 20 minutes long and will cover the material from
Ch.
23, 25, 26 and 28 of the textbook and the information from classes 6/9
and 6/14.
These review questions are meant as a guide to the type of material
the quiz will cover. These will not be the questions on the exam
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You should be able to:
Locate Rocky Mountain, Glacier, Yosemite and Isle Royale National Parks on a blank map of the US and on a blank map of the particular states in which they are located.
Recognize which park is which from photographs of landmarks, topographic maps, geologic maps, and aerial photos.
Describe what types of rocks (and their ages, on the scale of geologic eras) are exposed in each park.
Summarize the geologic history of each park.
Describe how glaciers form.
Recognize erosional landforms and depositional landforms created by glaciers (U-shaped valleys, hanging valleys, cirques, horns, aretes, moraines (end, lateral, medial), etc)
Describe thrust faults and explain how older sedimentary rock layers can be higher in a stratigraphic section than younger sedimentary rock layers.
Describe synclines and explain how the age of rock layers change as
you move from the margin to the center of a syncline.
The quiz will be 20 minutes long and will cover the material from
Ch.
36, 40, 41 and 43 of the textbook and the information from classes 6/16
and 6/21.
In addition, you should look through the photos on the CD that comes
with the book so you are familiar with what each park looks like.
These review questions are meant as a guide to the type of material
the quiz will cover. These will not be the questions on the exam
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You should be able to:
Locate Hawaii Volcanoes, Haleakala, Yellowstone and Crater Lake National Parks on a blank map of the US and on a blank map of the particular states in which they are located.
Recognize which park is which from photographs of landmarks, topographic maps, geologic maps, and aerial photos.
Describe what types of rocks (and their ages, on the scale of geologic eras) are exposed in each park.
Summarize the geologic history of each park.
Describe how shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes (also called composite volcanoes) cinder cones, calderas and resurgent domes form.
Recognize volcanic landforms.
Compare and contrast the chemical and physical properties of mafic and felsic magmas.
Explain how magma is produced beneath each of the volcanoes or volcanic fields we studied.
Describe the difference between a dike and a sill.
Explain how the viscosity and gas content of a magma will affect
eruptive
style and shape of volcano.
The final exam will be approximately 2 hours long, although you may
take the entire 3.5 hours if you need it. The exam begins at
11:50 a.m. and will be held in our classroom, S-116. Questions
will be similar to the questions we have had on quizzes. The exam
will be comprehensive but will concentrate on the material since quiz
4, namely Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks. To review
for the other parks, go back over your quizzes and the review sheets
for those quizzes.
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For Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks you should be able to:
Locate the parks on a blank map of the US and on a blank map of the particular state in which they are located.
Recognize which park is which from photographs of landmarks, topographic maps, geologic maps, and aerial photos.
Describe what types of rocks (and their ages, on the scale of geologic eras) are exposed in each park.
Summarize the geologic history of each park.
Describe the differences between normal faults, reverse faults, thrust faults and strike-slip faults.
Recognize landforms produced in arid mountainous regions (alluvial
fans, playa lakes, salt pans, sand dunes, inselbergs, pediments,
etc.) Some of these we did not discuss much in class so you will
have to get that information from the textbook.
Describe wineglass canyons and explain how they form.
Describe the types and sequence of sediments deposited when a rift
forms in a shallow continental sea and extends to produce a new ocean.
Explain why the geologic processes that lead to the formation of
arkose or arkosic conglomerates versus the formation of a well-sorted
quartz sandstone.
Know what limestone turns into when it is metamorphosed; know what
quartz sandstone turns into when it is metamorphosed.
Explain what "tafoni" are, how they form, and know which park they
are found in.
Know how to calculate vertical exaggeration on topographic profiles.